2013 Summer Courses
All Summer Session 2013 Information is subject to change. Please refer to InsideND for all course data.
Auditing a course is not permitted during the summer sessions. Those students who take courses in Tucson, AZ or Israel at the Tantur Institute and would like to audit those courses must receive specific permission from the course instructor and will be subject to paying the full tuition amount rather than the reduced summer rates. The University does not allow for exceptions to this situation.
Summer 2013 Course Descriptions
• Biblical Studies (BS)
• Catechesis Studies
• History of Christianity (HC)
• Liturgical Studies (LS)
• Moral Theology (MT)
• Systematic Theology (ST)
• Studies in Spirituality (SS)
• Comprehensive Review
All courses meet Monday through Friday
The syllabus for each course will be posted as they are received on the MA Theology web page. Students are responsible to read all required readings before arriving to campus in the summer.
Biblical Studies
THEO 60108. Psalms and Wisdom Literature (BS)
3 credits, Daniel Machiela
3:15-5:55 pm; MTWRF
June 17- July 5, 2013
Syllabus
The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible contains a rich array of Israel’s sacred literature, attesting to an equally rich, complex relationship with her God. In this course, we will explore together the book of Psalms and a varied collection of writings typically gathered under the heading “Wisdom Literature.” This category includes the books of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, as well as the deuterocanonical books of Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach) and Wisdom of Solomon. The Psalms have always held a central place in Jewish and Christian liturgy and theology, giving voice to the spiritual life of Israel and her descendants. The wisdom writings posit foundational worldviews by addressing life’s everyday workings and problems. Our time together will be spent doing close readings of these texts, paying attention to their historical and literary dimensions, their reception and interpretive afterlife in the Church (and Synagogue), and their ongoing significance for religious life today.
THEO 60114. Pauline Letters (BS)
3 credits, Gregory Tatum
3:15-5:45 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
The purpose of this course is to restore his real personality to Paul, who is most often understood as fountain of theological ideas. This will involve a somewhat detailed reconstruction of the world in which he lived, with specific concern for the influences that formed him, and the controversies that forced him to think more deeply. His letters will be studied in the order in which they were written with a view to dating and explaining the emergence of his key theological ideas. The required readings are: J. Murphy-O'Connor, Paul. A Critical Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). Paperback edition ISBN 0-19-285342-2. The Cambridge Companion to St Paul (ed. J.D.G. Dunn; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Paperback edition ISBN 0-521-78694-0.
Catechesis Studies
THEO 60221. Catechesis: History and Theory (HC,ST)
3 credits, Gerard Baumbach
12:20-3:00 pm; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
Catechesis aims “‘to put people not only in touch but in communion, in intimacy, with Jesus Christ’” (National Directory for Catechesis, 19B, quoting Catechesi Tradendae 5; cf. General Directory for Catechesis 80). What is catechesis and how does catechesis pursue this aim in contemporary parish life? What are some dimensions of the Church’s understanding of catechesis during selected periods in its history (e.g., influence of the baptismal catechumenate)? This course will enable students to explore catechesis from selected historical and contemporary perspectives, to gain awareness of developments in practice and in theoretical approaches, and to acquire and demonstrate a working familiarity with contemporary catechetical literature. Readings will include a variety of sources from antiquity to the present. Students will be encouraged to apply these sources to issues in parish catechetical leadership today.
THEO 60222. Christian Doctrine for Catechists (HC,ST)
3 credits, John Cavadini
12:30 - 3:00 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
This course is intended to serve as a resource for catechists and religious educators. It provides a basic theological introduction to the material represented in Pillars I and II of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: the Creed and the Sacraments. The course is specifically designed to cover this material in a way that will provide facility in teaching it in a variety of contexts. Readings will come not only from the Catechism, but from various primary sources, both traditional and contemporary illustrative of the theology that forms its background. The course will be especially useful for anyone wishing to acquire an understanding of the basic doctrines of the Catholic faith and of the theological integration of these doctrines.
THEO 60847. Pastoral Theology (Echo Program or With Departmental Permission)
2 credits, Jan Poorman
3:10-5:15 pm; TWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
(ECHO program first-year participants only.) This course is designed to assist newly selected apprentice catechetical leaders within the ECHO/Faith Formation Leadership Program in their preparation for lay ecclesial ministry. Participants learn fundamental pastoral/ministerial skills and processes involved in theological reflection, facilitation of growth in faith, pastoral counseling, parish administration, spiritual direction, and ministry to distinct groups by age and culture. Class sections include interactive lectures and small group work, as well as introductions to pastoral utilization of case study method, learning covenants, and formalized professional mentoring relationships. Class sessions also afford participants opportunities for in-class panel presentations on topics pertinent to catechetical leadership in the Roman Catholic Church.
THEO 60848. Theological Integration (Echo Program or With Departmental Permission)
3 credits, Jan Poorman
12:30-3:00 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
(ECHO second-year participants only.) This course represents a continuation of Theology 60847 and is designed to assist apprentice catechetical leaders in the ECHO/Faith Formation Leadership Program in their ongoing integration of theological studies and professional ministerial praxis. Having completed a full academic year of parish ministry, participants nurture their emerging ministerial identities and skills while utilizing class sessions for advanced work in theological reflection based on case study method and for seminar facilitation of conversation on theological topics pertinent to catechetical leadership in the Roman Catholic Church. In addition to deepened exploration of ministerial skills and processes emphasized during their first year in ECHO, participants engage in facilitated appropriation of leadership skills such as ministerial collaboration, mutual empowerment, delegation, community building, conflict resolution, volunteer management, parish needs assessment, and effective pastoral communication. Relationship between Christology and Pneumatology in the Writings of Yves Congar, Karl Rahner and Jacques Dupuis, PUG, 1987.
History of Christianity Studies
THEO 60258. Mary (HC,ST,SS)
3 credits, Brian Daley, SJ
12:30 - 3:00 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
Mary is, in a sense, a marginal figure in the Christian life of faith and practice, since the Gospel that forms the Church is above all the news that Jesus, her Son, is Lord: raised from the dead, saving us from our sins. Yet from earliest Christian times, believers in Jesus have been centrally concerned with Mary's life, her role in the history of salvation as Mother of God, her holiness, her virginity and fidelity to God, her present share in the risen life of her Son. This course will consider some of the main texts and moments by which Christian beliefs about Mary and personal and liturgical devotion to Mary have developed, and will reflect on her central importance in the Christian life today.
THEO 60294. Early Church Christology (HC,ST)
3 credits, Andrew Hofer, OP
3:15 - 5:45 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
This course examines texts from key figures of early Christianity whose thinking has profoundly influenced the way Christians believe in and celebrate the mystery of Jesus Christ. Such thinkers include Irenaeus, Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Cyril of Alexandria, Leo the Great, and Maximus the Confessor. Special attention will be given to the interpretation of Sacred Scripture within the Christological controversies, in the arguments of what should be considered heretical and what should be considered orthodox. The teachings of the ancient ecumenical councils on Christ are examined and considered for their significance today.
Studies in Spirituality
THEO 60295. Christian Spiritual Autobiography (HC,SS)
3 credits, Michael Heintz & Shawn Colberg
8:30 - 11:10 am, MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
This course will involve a careful, critical, and reflective reading of works that might be classified as "spiritual autobiography" in the Christian theological tradition. Examining these "self-presentations" as theological fonts, this course will introduce students to this genre and an understanding of each work in its historical and theological context. Particular attention will be given to the presentation of life as a "journey" with emphasis on those experiences which advance the person in his or her relationship with God. The roles of divine and human action located in experiences such as grace, sacramental action, self-examination, prayer, and good works will inform the way in which the course considers progress in the life stories. To that end, students will survey seminal texts in spiritual autobiography to consider and compare the way in which writers have come to express their movement into life or union with God.
THEO 60292. Contemplation, Contemplative Life, Contemplative Prayer (HC, ST, SS)
3 credits, Keith Egan
8:30 - 11:00 am; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
In an era when the church has called for a New Evangelization, significant voices claim that the church must become a more contemplative church, a more listening church where life, prayer and ministry come under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Vatican II broke with a religious culture that too often seemed to reserve holiness to the few. Lumen gentium, Chapter Five, changed all that when it proclaimed its “Universal Call to Holiness.” This course explores the holiness tradition as it discovered that prayer, liturgical and personal, involves in some form contemplation, the contemplative life and contemplative prayer as well as the practice of meditation. These elements will be investigated as they are reported in the Hebrew Scriptures, that is, in the practice of haga in the Psalms as well the major theophanies of the scriptures reveal about the divine encounters of Moses, Elijah and Jesus. The intent of this course is to gather from the Judeo-Christian tradition a theological understanding of meditation and contemplation in the twenty-first century. The prayer of Jesus of Nazareth will be explored especially for how this prayer bespeaks a connection with the contemplative tradition. Classical moments in the patristic era will be sampled with selections in the East from Origen, Gregory of Nyssa (Life of Moses--full text), Pseudo-Dionysius and from the West Augustine, John Cassian and Gregory the Great. For the Medieval era there will be selections from Bernard of Clairvaux, Guigo II (Ladder of the Monks), Thomas Aquinas along with the full text of The Cloud of Unknowing. From the sixteenth century selections from Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross From recent and contemporary eras, selections from Garrigou-Lagrange, Raȉssa Maritain, Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating and John Main. See the syllabus for further details.
Liturgical Studies
THEO 60405. Liturgical Prayer (LS)
3 credits, Anne McGowan
8:30 - 11:10 pm; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
A study of the theology and practice of liturgical prayer in the Christian tradition past and present.
THEO 60404. Eucharist (LS)
3 credits, Michael Driscoll
12:30 - 3:00 pm; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
The Church makes the Eucharist and the Eucharist makes the Church. A biblical, historical, systematic and liturgical treatment of the Eucharistic liturgy with a special emphasis on pastoral considerations.The goal of this course is a comprehensive understanding of the nature and development of the Christian Eucharist. In order to accomplish this end an examination of both the structure and the content of the eucharistic liturgy will be undertaken. A positive theological method will be employed whereby the Eucharist will be studied from an historical perspective, after which a systematic theological reflection upon various aspects will be undertaken with a commentary on contemporary theory and practice.
THEO 60416. Liturgical Theology (LS)
3 credits, David Fagerberg
8:30 - 11:00 am; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
This course will detail how Christian theology is rooted in the liturgy's lex orandi. We will begin by defining the method and scope of liturgical theology (especially using Schmemann, Kavanagh, and Taft). We will then apply this to catechetics, asceticism, ecclesiology, and spirituality. Looking at specific topics in liturgical theology and some of the influential authors in the liturgical movement of this century, the student will arrive at a framework for relating the liturgical life of the body of Christ with ministry that leads to and flows from it.
THEO 60419. Liturgical History (LS)
3 credits, Maxwell Johnson
3:15 - 5:55 pm; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
Survey of liturgical history and sources with regard to both Eastern and Western rites. Fundamental liturgical sources including basic homiletic and catechetical documents of the patristic period. Basic introduction to the methodology of liturgical
Moral Theology Courses
THEO 60614. Catholic Social Teaching (MT)
3 credits, Margie Pfeil
12:20 - 3:00 pm; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
This course involves close reading of the official documents of Catholic social teaching from Rerum Novarum to Centesimus Annus. Emphasis is on intense seminar discussion. Students do a number of shorter analyses of the documents.
THEO 60631. Medical Ethics (MT)
3 credits, Charles Camosy
8:30 - 11:00 am; MTWRF
July 8 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
Confusion reigns supreme when it comes to discussion of bioethics: whether in a hospital ethics committee, presidential debate, an academic journal, or over a pint in a pub. It is more often characterized by people talking past each other than about discussion of the same topic, to say nothing of actually making progress on a particular issue. For instance, three very different topics: the personhood of the fetus, the permissibility of ever killing the fetus, and public policy about the personhood or killing of the fetus, are often unhelpfully lumped into arguments over a single topic: abortion. This course attempts to deal with several classic topics in bioethics in a way that cuts through the confusion by dealing with the each of the three kinds of issues (moral status, killing/treatment/care, and public policy) systematically. The course will emphasize the Roman Catholic moral traditions, but will almost always be in conversation with secular traditionsas well. Key points not only of disagreement, but, importantly, agreement will be emphasized in an attempt to at least get the issues straight and, perhaps, move the debate forward.
Systematic Theology Courses
THEO 60806. Ecclesiology (ST)
3 credits, Kristin Colberg
3:15-5:55 pm; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
This course examines the development of the Church from both theological and historical perspectives. It seeks to assist students in constructing and refining critical principles of interpretation that apply directly to the mystery, mission, ministries and structure of the Church. Of central concern are the questions of how the Church has understood its mission at various points in its history and what developments have impacted this understanding. Strong emphasis is placed on the theological developments that have occurred before, during and after the Second Vatican Council as these periods saw critical development in the Church’s self-understanding.
THEO 60867. Thomas Merton (ST,SS)
3 credits, Lawrence Cunningham
8:30-11:10 am; MTWRF
June 17 - July 5, 2013
Syllabus
This course will introduce the student to the life and spiritual vision of the Cistercian writer Thomas Merton (1915-1968). We will focus mainly on Merton's attempt to communicate his vision of contemplation in a world of action. Readings will be drawn from his New Seeds of Contemplation as well as his personal journals abridged in The Essential Merton and some of Merton's selected essays found in Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master. The course requirements, in addition to the reading of the assigned texts for each day and class readiness in discussion, will be a weekly paper of roughly five typed pages the topic of which will be determined by the needs and interests of those who take the course.
Intensive Course: Module 1, June 17 - June 28, 2013
THEO 60853. Political & Liberation Theology (ST,SS)
4 credits, Gustavo Guttierrez/Matthew Ashley
(1) M T W R F - 12:20P - 3:00P
(2) M T W R F - 6:30P - 8:30P
(3) M T W R F - 12:20P - 3:00P
(4) M T W R F - 6:30P - 8:30P
Syllabus
This course will look at the origins and development of political theology in Europe and liberation theology in Latin America, with particular attention to foundational texts by figures such as Johann Baptist Metz, Gustavo Gutierrez, Juan Luis Segundo, and others.
Intensive Course: Module 2, July 22 - July 26, 2013
THEO 60456. Writing with Light: Bysantine Icons (SS,LS)
2 credits, George Kordis
12:30 - 5:30 pm MTWRF
July 22 - July 26, 2013
Syllabus
The course introduces the student to the theory and practice of the art of Icon Painting, according to the Byzantine Tradition. The basic ideals and principles of the Theory of Byzantine Painting will be presented in relation to Patristic Iconology, on which the art of Iconography is founded. The main aim of the course is to introduce participants to the traditional process of painting an icon with the use of the Egg tempera technique. Students are called to make an icon during the five day course.
THEO 60930. Young Adult Ministries
2 credits, Fr. John Cusick and Dr. Kate DeVries
(1) M T W - 8:00A - 12:00P
(2) M T W - 1:15P - 5:15P
(1) July 29 - July 31, 2013
(2) July 29 - July 31, 2013
Syllabus
The Young Adult Ministries course serves as an introduction to the pastoral documents affording Roman Catholics a foundation from which to design programs and processes for ongoing faith formation, spiritual growth, and social interaction for young adults. Two renowned pastoral ministers from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Fr. John Cusick and Dr. Kate DeViries, will facilitate this pastoral workshop at Notre Dame for the first day, Wednesday, August 5, and at Old St. Pat's in Chicago on August 6, with the assistance of other Archdiocesan personnel engaged in Young Adult Ministries. The morning of August 7 will serve as an opportunity to process reflectively and interactively with other participants and to contribute to the generation of final projects for the course. Registered participants will be contacted with additional information about assigned materials and will be able to share rides to Chicago. Course is open to all Echo Program, MDiv, and MA students.
Comprehensive Review Course
THEO 68802. 01 Comprehensive Review
1 credit, Catherine Cavadini
6:00 - 7:30 pm; MTWRF
July 15- July 19, 2013
The Comprehensive Review Course serves two purposes:
- As the credit associated with taking and passing your Comprehensive Exam. Thus, you should register and enroll in this course during the summer in which you are taking your Exam.
- As an introduction to the Exam process and formal beginning to the preparation for sitting your Comprehensive Exam. Thus, you should come to the class sessions if you plan to take your Exam the NEXT summer (2014).
If you fall into this second category, please email Prof. Katie Cavadini (Cavadini.4@nd.edu), so that she can add you to the list of folks attending and send you the appropriate information about location, time and dates in early July.
Dates for M.A. Theology Exams Summer 2013
The written examination will be on Monday, July 22 from 8am until noon. The oral exams will be in forty minute blocks on either Wednesday, July 24 or Thursday, July 25.
Questions?
If you have questions about our MA program, please contact Administrative Assistant for M.Div. Program and M.A. Program Betsy Karnes at 574-631-4256 or ekarnes@nd.edu.