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CHST 750 - Formerly CHIST 750 - Confessions and Confession (3)
This seminar centers on Augustine's Confessions while also using the text to explore more broadly the character of confessional language, literature, ritual. The approach is interdisciplinary and readings potentially include not only Augustine's but also Rousseau's Confessions, as well as selections from the works of such theorists as Peter Brooks, Paul DeMan, Jacques Derrida.
Enrollment priority: Open to doctoral and advanced masters students. Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 626 - Formerly THEPH 326 - Authority of Scripture and Tradition: Ecumenical Advances (3)
Understanding of the "teaching authority of the church" has been one of the most divisive issues in the life of the church. The seminar seeks to study the advances made within the ecumenical movement on the question of the authority of scripture and tradition.
Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 634 - Formerly THEPH 334 - Process Theology (3)
An in-depth study of the sources and development of process theology, moving from Whitehead's Process and Reality to representative works by recent thinkers, such as Hartshome, Cobb, Griffin, Brock, and Suchocki.
TPHL 635 - Formerly THEPH 335 - Schleiermacher and Tillich (3)
An examination of writings of two theologians of the liberal tradition. Schleiermacher (1768--1834) inaugurated the liberal strain in Protestantism with his revolutionary 1799 Speeches in which he shaped the emergent contours of a universal religion. In his 1822 Christian Faith he unfolded a phenomenology of consciousness that fulfilled the Kantian project for religion. Tillich (1886--1965), referring to Schleiermacher as his spiritual grandfather, developed an existential theology in dialogue with contemporary culture and in some respects brought the grand liberal tradition to a high water mark. His major work of 1951-1963, Sytematic Theology Vols. I, II, III, will be the focus of the course's reflections.
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TPHL 636 - Formerly THEPH 336 - The Theology of Karl Barth (3)
Consists of two units: 1) Barth's break with liberal theology, and 2) structure and development in the Church Dogmatics. Readings are concentrated in the commentary on Romans and Church Dogmatics I & II. Throughout, historical context and later criticisms and appropriations are considered.
Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 651 - Formerly THEPH 351 - Asian Theologies (3)
A seminar dealing with major themes and figures in Asian theology.
TPHL 661 - Formerly THEPH 361 - Kant and Hegel (3)
A concentrated study of selected texts, with special, but not exclusive, emphasis on philosophy of religion.
TPHL 662 - Formerly THEPH 362 - American Philosophy (3)
Details the rise of a distinctive American philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Figures covered include Emerson, Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler. The focus is on the development of pragmatism, idealism, semiotics, naturalism, and systematic metaphysics. Conceptual analyses are correlated with contextual and social studies of the place of Euro-American thought in the larger culture of North America.
Same as: CMFE - Formerly COMFE+362
TPHL 691 - Formerly THEPH 391 - Major Figures in Philosophical Theology (3)
A seminar focusing on one major figure from the Western or Eastern traditions. Examples include, but are not limited to, Martin Heidegger, Charles Sanders Peirce, Helena Blavatsky, Sri Aurobindo, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and William James.
Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 700 - Formerly THEPH 700 - Modern Jewish Theology (3)
A study of developments in Jewish thought in the post-Enlightenment peril beginning with the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. How Jewish philosophy responded to the emergence of a secular society, the Jews new access to university education and social integration and other challenges by modernity. The rise of denominationalism in Jewish religious life.
Offering to be determined.
TPHL 718 - Formerly THEPH 718 - Topics in Theology (3)
This graduate level topics course will offer variable courses in theology aimed primarily at Ph.D. students and advanced Master's of Divinity students. Course may be repeated.
Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 724 - Formerly THEPH 724 - Theology and Derrida (3)
The course attempts to catch a glimpse of the basic logic and movement of deconstruction (Derrida: "if there is such a thing") and reflect upon recent attempts by various theological interpreters to make a profitable and fecund connection between deconstruction and theology.
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THEPH 725 - Nature, God, and the New Cosmology (3)
An examination of some of the implications of the new cosmology for the traditional ideas. The first part of this course looks at several conceptions of nature as they illuminate science and theology. The second part of the course probes into the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory insofar as they, too, illuminate the relationship between God and Nature. The final part of the course examines current cosmological theories, with particular attention to those of Hawking. Topics include creation and the Big Bang, the origin of time, the no-boundary proposal, the Anthropic principle, the status of eschatology, and the problem of teleology.
Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 728 - Formerly THEPH 728 - Contemporary Religious Thinkers (3)
Studies in the thought of twentieth-century figures with an eye to their specific contributions to religious thought. Subject changes from year to year.
Signature of instructor required for registration.
TPHL 741 - Formerly THEPH 741 - Theories and Methods in Theological & Religious Stds (3)
A required course acquainting first-year students with the academic fields of theological and religious studies.
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TPHL 755 - Formerly THEPH 755 - Theory and Theology (3)
Postmodern philosophical resources for theology: radical orthodoxy; poststructuralism and negative theology; postcolonial and feminist theory.
Signature of instructor required for registration.