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This course will combine close textual and exegetical analysis of the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah) with attention to methodology. These chapters of Isaiah are selected as they model well the transition from early literary-critical to form and redaction-critical exegesis, and newer canonical approaches. the time will be devoted to close reading of the Hebrew text informed by the spate of newer commentary treatments and secondary literature.
A critical exploration of the mystical, liturgical and pastoral theology of Evelyn Underhill, as she develops these in her novels and scholarly writings. Her thought will be examined in light of contemporary issues in spirituality, such as the status of the body, mysticism and social action, the subjectivization of mystical experiences, and the effect of socio-political structures on spirituality. Lectures, discussion, presentation, critical reflection paper.
A critical exploration of the mystical, liturgical and pastoral theology of Evelyn Underhill, as she develops these in her novels and scholarly writings. Her thought will be examined in light of contemporary issues in spirituality, such as the status of the body, mysticism and social action, the subjectivization of mystical experiences, and the effect of socio-political structures on spirituality. Lectures, discussion, presentation, critical reflection paper.
A critical exploration of the mystical, liturgical and pastoral theology of Evelyn Underhill, as she develops these in her novels and scholarly writings. Her thought will be examined in light of contemporary issues in spirituality, such as the status of the body, mysticism and social action, the subjectivization of mystical experiences, and the effect of socio-political structures on spirituality. Lectures, discussion, presentation, critical reflection paper.
This course investigates certain key developments regarding God in the theological tradition of Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, and Bernard Lonergan. The focus is three topics: God as knowable by natural reason, God as manifested by supernatural revelation, and the psychological analogy for the Trinity. Readings include appropriate sections of Augustine's Confessions and On the Trinity, Aquinas' Summa theologiae, and Lonergan's Method in Theology and Third Collection. Lecture plus seminar. Requirements: weekly seminar preparation and participation, four one-page reflections, final paper, and take-home exam.
The course will examine and interrogate Barth’s understanding:that Jesus Christ not only enacts God’s reconciliation of the world with Himself, but also enacts the revelation of that reconciliation to His creatures; that Jesus Christ lives today in the confession of faith;that Jesus Christ as the Word of God, is the light of life. No other can rival His light, yet He enables His creatures to perceive other (extraordinary) words as true; of the truths of creation; of the relation between the reality of revelation and Christian knowledge of it; of the victory of the revelation of Christ over the darkness of the world (and over the outdatedness of the world’s knowledge); of the three forms of Christ’s coming again (i.e., Easter, the final coming, His coming as the Holy Spirit); that the time in which we live, the time of His coming as the Holy Spirit, is the time of mission.
How is our agenda for theology related to our gender? Is "God" a male word? Is the "Word made flesh" a male God? Does the experience of women change how God is (made) known? Is sexuality embraced by the resurrection? Attentive to the work of feminist theologians and biblical scholars, we will attempt to develop an "embodied" theology open to the biblical vision that God will be "all in all".
How is our agenda for theology related to our gender? Is "God" a male word? Is the "Word made flesh" a male God? Does the experience of women change how God is (made) known? Is sexuality embraced by the resurrection? Attentive to the work of feminist theologians and biblical scholars, we will attempt to develop an "embodied" theology open to the biblical vision that God will be "all in all".
How is our agenda for theology related to our gender? Is "God" a male word? Is the "Word made flesh" a male God? Does the experience of women change how God is (made) known? Is sexuality embraced by the resurrection? Attentive to the work of feminist theologians and biblical scholars, we will attempt to develop an "embodied" theology open to the biblical vision that God will be "all in all".
How is our agenda for theology related to our gender? Is "God" a male word? Is the "Word made flesh" a male God? Does the experience of women change how God is (made) known? Is sexuality embraced by the resurrection? Attentive to the work of feminist theologians and biblical scholars, we will attempt to develop an "embodied" theology open to the biblical vision that God will be "all in all".
This course will involve close and critical engagement with key primary texts on the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Readings will be organized chronologically and will involve such major classic theologians as Tertullian, Origen, Hilary of Poitiers, Augustine, Aquinas, Richard of St. Victor, and Gregory Palamas. Theologians from the Reformation and Post-Reformation era will include John Calvin, John Owen, and Friedrich Schleiermacher, among others. Modern post-Barthian issues in trinitarian theology will also be discussed, with a particular focus on Karl Barth himself, the immanent-economic axis (Rahner et al.), the varieties of social trinitarianism, and recent feminist and queer engagements with the Trinity (e.g., LaCugna, Coakley, Tonstad). A major aim of the class will be for students to wrestle with the biblical, dogmatic, and practical demands of the doctrine according to the framework and material claims established by the Nicene-Constantinopolitan settlement of the fourth century.
A textual reading of Longergan's magnum opus on The Triune God embracing the history and theological development of the Trinity. Principle amount of the course will pertain to Volume 12 of Lonergan's Collected Works on the Systematic party of the Trinity. Reference to Volume 11. Doctrines will occur when helpful. Special attention will be placed on Lonergan's continued development of the psychological analogy from the Augustinian-Thomistic tradition.