THEO 318 - 001

Regular Academic Session

6095

Undergraduate

3 units

Graded Alpha

The development of various Christian doctrines in light of their historical milieu during the last six centuries of Christian thought.

Outcomes: Students will be able to assess how various configurations of theological perspectives can both expand and foreshorten the way human thinking has gone on.

Catholic Studies
European Studies

This course is a historical-theological survey of major Christian thinkers and theologies throughout Reformation, modern and contemporary periods. The aim of the course is to enable students to become conversant with particular trajectories of Christian thought during these eras, including, but by no means limited to: justification and grace in the Reformation, the role of reason and in the influence of the Enlightenment on theology, the role of experience in the modern world, and the significance of contextual (e.g. feminist, liberation, black, etc.) theologies, to name just a few themes. We will pay attention to major theological issues and themes as they have presented themselves within certain historical contexts and as they appear in the primary texts we will be studying. The structure of the course will include lectures (most up front, to provide historical context), close collaborative readings of selected texts and group discussions. Course texts William C. Placher and Derek R. Nelson, Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present, Rev. ed., Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2017. ISBN 978-0664239343 Justo L. González, A History of Christian Thought: From the Protestant Reformation to the Twentieth Century, Vol. III, Rev. ed., Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1987. ISBN 978-0687171842

Colby Dickinson

TuTh 2:30PM - 3:45PM

01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025

In person

Lake Shore Campus

Lake Shore Campus

Open

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