Previous Years' Course Catalogues

Participants in the seminar will discuss classical psychological theories of religion and contemporary research based on these theories. Based on the works of Freud, Jung and James we shall study the contemporary contributions of authors such as Kristeva, Girard, Capps, and Taylor to these discussions.

Participants in the seminar will discuss classical psychological theories of religion and contemporary research based on these theories. Based on the works of Freud, Jung and James we shall study the contemporary contributions of authors such as Kristeva, Girard, Capps, and Taylor to these discussions.

This course will explore the extent and nature of the theology of the Church Fathers in that of the Reformation theologians, Lutheran, Reformed (including Anglican) and Catholic, up to the early 17th century. There will be eight topics covered: 1. Method issues: Renaissance, language and scholarship of the Fathers and the bible, including the question of 'sola scriptura ; 2 Key figures: lrenaeus, Chrysostom, Augustine, Ratramnus; 3. Issue 1: Atonement, Justification and Sanctification; 4. Issue 2: Eucharistllord's Supper; 5. Issue 3: Predestination. :6. Issue 4: Trinity and Christology 7; Issue 5: the Church; 8. Conclusions and Presentations. The course will aim to instruct in patristic theology in context and in the context of its appropriation by Early Modern writers. Thus, there will be a consideration of a 'triangular' relationship between Reformation theology, the Church Fathers and the biblical texts. This will proffer a truer picture of how the Church Fathers have worked on Western theology in Modernity and what has been missed in this translation.

This course will explore the extent and nature of the theology of the Church Fathers in that of the Reformation theologians, Lutheran, Reformed (including Anglican) and Catholic, up to the early 17th century. There will be eight topics covered: 1. Method issues: Renaissance, language and scholarship of the Fathers and the bible, including the question of 'sola scriptura ; 2 Key figures: lrenaeus, Chrysostom, Augustine, Ratramnus; 3. Issue 1: Atonement, Justification and Sanctification; 4. Issue 2: Eucharistllord's Supper; 5. Issue 3: Predestination. :6. Issue 4: Trinity and Christology 7; Issue 5: the Church; 8. Conclusions and Presentations. The course will aim to instruct in patristic theology in context and in the context of its appropriation by Early Modern writers. Thus, there will be a consideration of a 'triangular' relationship between Reformation theology, the Church Fathers and the biblical texts. This will proffer a truer picture of how the Church Fathers have worked on Western theology in Modernity and what has been missed in this translation.

A seminar course in which will be considered the following questions raised by Barth: 1) What is world history and how does the people of God see itself in it and live in it? 2) What is the nature of the Christian community’s knowledge of, solidarity with, and obligation to the world? 3) What is the content of the Christian community’s task? What are its limits, and what are the promises and the final promise given it? 4) What are the forms of the community’s ministry? 5) How does the community understand itself as situated in the threefold parousia of Christ? 6) What is the impact of Christ’s sending of the church on the individual Christian?

Karl Barth develops his christology in terms of Christ's priestly, kingly and prophetic work. As priest Christ justifies us; as king He sanctifies us; as prophet He calls us. In this seminar course its members will examine Barth's account of calling, its occurrence and its goal. Barth develops his understanding of calling in terms of witness. The course will attend to Barth's account of Jesus Christ as the true witness and follow this theme as Barth develops it in an exposition of the book of Job. The course will next examine how Barth explains how Christians are drawn into Christ's witness, themselves being constituted witnesses. The course will conclude with Barth's description of sin as falsehood, which arises from different sorts of denials of Christ's prophecy and is overcome only by God's judgment upon it. The readings in the course will be in Church Dogmatics IV/3.

Karl Barth develops his christology in terms of Christ's priestly, kingly and prophetic work. As priest Christ justifies us; as king He sanctifies us; as prophet He calls us. In this seminar course its members will examine Barth's account of calling, its occurrence and its goal. Barth develops his understanding of calling in terms of witness. The course will attend to Barth's account of Jesus Christ as the true witness and follow this theme as Barth develops it in an exposition of the book of Job. The course will next examine how Barth explains how Christians are drawn into Christ's witness, themselves being constituted witnesses. The course will conclude with Barth's description of sin as falsehood, which arises from different sorts of denials of Christ's prophecy and is overcome only by God's judgment upon it. The readings in the course will be in Church Dogmatics IV/3.

A close reading of Barth’s CD III/1 in which Barth describes the bases for the knowledge of God as Creator and heaven and earth as God’s creation; explicates Gen 1 and 2 under the rubrics of creation as the external basis of the covenant and the covenant as the internal basis of creation; and explains creation as benefit, enactment and justification.

Textual reading and discussion of Lonergan?s Method in Theology with a view towards addressing an array of issues concerning method in the contemporary study of theology in the university setting. Examination of the foundations for theology and the various methodological disciplines and collaboration. Topics include: methodological relationship of subjectivity/objectivity, roles of research, history, criticism (dialectic), systematic theology, doctrines, interpretation (normative authority of certain texts), praxis, communication (scholarly reporting) meaning, culture, religion each as they pertain to method for theological reflection. Satisfies the method course requirement for the PhD.

Central ideas in the Kierkegaard corpus and their relevance to contemporary theological and philosophical concerns.

Central ideas in the Kierkegaard corpus and their relevance to contemporary theological and philosophical concerns.

Central ideas in the Kierkegaard corpus and their relevance to contemporary theological and philosophical concerns.