THEO 60002 - Section 01: Elementary Hebrew I (CRN 12039)

This is a two-semester introductory course in biblical Hebrew; under normal circumstances, the student must complete the first to enroll in the second. The fall semester will be devoted to learning the grammar of biblical Hebrew. The spring semester will be divided into two parts. For the first six weeks we will finish and review the grammar. In the remaining part of the course we will read and translate texts from the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and Rabbinic literature. The course will focus on developing reading and comprehension skills in biblical Hebrew through the study of biblical texts. In addition, students will learn how to use reference grammars, concordances, and apparatus to the Biblica Hebraica. The course encourages students to think about the grammatical forms and their implications for biblical interpretation.

THEO 60006 - Section 01: Intermediate Hebrew (CRN 11946)

The primary focus of this course is on reading the text of the Hebrew Bible, at first prose narratives, then poetic sections and consonantal (unpointed) texts. There will be a review of the grammar of Biblical Hebrew, as well as development of vocabulary and skills in using lexicons and concordances of the Hebrew Bible. The course should speed your reading of Hebrew and help prepare you to teach an Elementary Hebrew course. There will be quizzes, a mid-term, and a final exam. Elementary Hebrew is required. Readings:Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.C. L. Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (1st or 2nd ed.).F. Brown, S. Driver, and C. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon.L. Koehler and W. Baumgartner, Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament.

THEO 60103 - Section 01: Introduction to Judaism (CRN 18905)

This course surveys the major practices and beliefs of Judaism. Our focus is on Judaism as a religious tradition, one that links its adherents across time even as it changes in response to new circumstances. We begin by examining the foundational religious categories that crystallized in antiquity, such as the commandments and Torah study. We then turn to transformative developments in later periods, among them the flourishing of philosophy and mysticism inmedieval Judaism, religious reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Holocaust, and Zionism.

THEO 60105 - Section 01: Introduction to Old Testament (CRN 14076)
Long Title: Introduction to the Old Testament

This course provides an overview and critical study of the Hebrew Scriptures in their literary, historical, and theological contexts. The focus will be principally on reading and gaining an informed understanding of the biblical text, but this will be done against the background of the history, literature, and religions of the magnificent civilizations in the ancient Near East. Further aspects include analysis and use of the tools of historical-critical scholarship; ancient mythology; the processes by which the Scriptures were composed; Old Testament theology; and contemporary theological issues. The course is designed to prepare students both for graduate biblical studies and for intelligent effectiveness in the contemporary church.

THEO 60105 - Section 02: Introduction to Old Testament (CRN 17273)
Long Title: Introduction to the Old Testament

This course provides an overview and critical study of the Hebrew Scriptures in their literary, historical, and theological contexts. The focus will be principally on reading and gaining an informed understanding of the biblical text, but this will be done against the background of the history, literature, and religions of the magnificent civilizations in the ancient Near East. Further aspects include analysis and use of the tools of historical-critical scholarship; ancient mythology; the processes by which the Scriptures were composed; Old Testament theology; and contemporary theological issues. The course is designed to prepare students both for graduate biblical studies and for intelligent effectiveness in the contemporary church.

THEO 60121 - Section 01: Early Christianity (CRN 18906)
Long Title: Early Christianity: An Introduction

This course will explore the history and thought of the first five hundred years of the Christian church. Our approach will be both theological and social historical. We will read our texts to discover not only the background and context of the major theological debates but also the shape and preoccupations of "ordinary" Christian life in late antiquity: the pastoral situations and issues that called theological debates into being. The bulk of our reading will thus be a selection of primary texts taken from the writings of our early authors.

THEO 60168 - Section 01: Life, Letters, Legacy of Paul (CRN 18907)
Long Title: The Life, Letters and Legacy of St. Paul

This course will examine the heritage, writings, and legacy of the Apostle Paul. It is divided into five unequal parts: 1) Introductory Issues; 2) Paul in His Pre-Christian and Early Apostolic Years; 3) The Letters of Paul; 4) The Letters of Paul?s Followers; and 5) Pseudo-Pauline Works and Ancient Views of Paul. Most of the course is devoted to Paul?s letters (Part III). Opportunities for student response and discussion will be provided during each session of the course. The course has four main objectives: (1) to provide an introduction to the letters of Paul and the apostle himself; (2) to provide insight into the cultural, religious, and philosophical dimensions of the Greco-Roman world in which Paul lived; (3) to acquaint the student with some of the various ancient and modern interpretations of Paul; and (4) to introduce students to the major scholarly methods used to interpret Pauline literature.

THEO 60235 - Section 01: Christianity in Africa (CRN 18908)

Few places on earth exhibit the dynamism of contemporary Christianity like Africa. Such dynamism creates new challenges and opportunities for the Catholic Church and other ecclesial bodies, and also shapes African life more generally. Through novels, historical studies, and present-day reflections from a variety of perspectives this course will explore Christianity in Africa, beginning with the early Church but with heightened attention to the more recent growth of Christianity on the continent. It will also examine Christianity's interactions with Islam and forms of African ways of being religious that predated Christianity and Islam, many of which have ongoing vitality. Attention will also be paid to African Christian theology, carried out formally and informally, as well as the implications of the spread of African Christianity for world Christianity.

THEO 60269 - Section 01: Three 12th-Century Cistercians (CRN 18909)
Long Title: Three Twelfth-Century Cistercians

Contemporaries of one another, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), William of St. Thierry (1085-1148), and Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) each contributed with passion and genius to the great twelfth-century Cistercian reform of Benedictine spirituality. They did so in complementary ways, reflecting their unique temperaments, backgrounds, geographic surroundings, mystical experiences, and missions. In this course we will read the principle writings of each, comparing and contrasting their approaches to the central Cistercian themes of self-knowledge, charity, and reform (personal and communal). Emphasis will be placed on their common engagement with Augustinian theology and their novel insights into its richness as a mystical way.

THEO 60298 - Section 01: Light and Darkness (CRN 19625)
Long Title: Light and Darkness in Medieval Thought

The symbolism of light and darkness has played an enormous role in the histories of European philosophy, theology, ad literature. Taking the Book of Genesis and Plato's Republic as the twin starting-points of the tradition, this course will mark out the main contours of this history of symbolism during the western Middle Ages first, by isolating key texts or parts of texts (from Augustine's Soliloquies, Confessions, and commentaries on Genesis, and from Dionysius the Areopagite's Hierarchies and Mystical Theology at one end of the period to Robert Grosseteste's De Luce and other writings of the Scholastic period at the other, together with the numerous relevant Carolingian and twelfth-century cosmologists and Dionysian commentators in between). Secondly, we will distinguish the many different applications of the symbolism of light and darkness in the contrast between good and evil, in the identification of darkness paradoxically with both ignorance and transcendent vision, in the association of light with fire and love, in the identification of darkness and nothingness, and so forth. Knowledge of Latin is useful but not essential for participation in the course. The written requirement is one final essay on a relevant topic of the student's choice that is approved by the Instructor.

THEO 60299 - Section 03: Boethius & His Commentators (CRN 19626)
Long Title: Boethius and His Commentators

The first part of this course will provide an introduction to Boethius' life and works, and to his relation to the earlier Greek and Latin traditions. Although we will consider De Consolatione Philosophiae to be his most important text, devoting some weeks to the reading of the work sequentially through its five books, some attention will also be paid to Boethius' theological opuscula and to his writings on logic, rhetoric, music, and arithmetic. The second part of the course will be devoted to the tradition of Latin commentary on Boethius during the western Middle Ages between the early Carolingians and the thirteenth century with special reference to the writings of Eriugena, Remigius of Auxerre, Bovo of Corvey, and William of Conches. Again, the primary emphasis will be placed on the afterlife of De Consolatione, although there will also be some opportunity to consider the commentaries on the theological treatises, and also the numerous Boethian citations and resonances in literary, theological, and philosophical works that are not "commentaries" on this author in the strict sense. Students may write their required final essays on Boethius himself or on the Latin or vernacular traditions of Boethian reading.

THEO 60402 - Section 01: Liturgical History (CRN 12811)

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 study. Requirements will include short papers and exams. (Fall)

THEO 60404 - Section 01: Eucharist (CRN 10376)

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 60422 - Section 01: Liturgical Prayer (CRN 18910)

A study of the theology and practice of liturgical prayer in the Christian tradition past and present.

THEO 60445 - Section 01: Music in the Medieval West (CRN 19384)

This graduate seminar is about how music was recorded, changing modes of transmission, and the interactions between the performer, the notator, the poet/dramatist, the patron, and the scholar throughout the Middle Ages. The work begins in the early Christian period and ends in around 1400, providing an overview of the development of music in its historical contexts. The first half of the course, focuses upon repertory during and after the monumental changes of the Carolingian period. As the church controlled the means of book production, all that survives is sacred music, most of it is liturgical. Students will prepare transcriptions for use in our work and to do this, expertise in a variety of subjects will be well-received, from composition and music theory, to music performance, to Latin studies, history, and liturgics. A class project at mid-term will involve the reconstruction of a medieval Vespers service from the manuscripts we have been studying, including a Carthusian diurnal written in Paris in the thirteenth century, but preserving a tradition that is far older. This work will be filmed as part of a project supported by the Mellon Foundation: "Performing the Middle Ages." The second half of the course will focus on rhythm, music and poetry, and dramatic and narrative structures, ending with the performance of scenes from Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum, a musical play that will drawn on a variety of student expertise, from the theological to the musical, the art historical to the digital. Student will have an opportunity to engage with a digital reconstruction of Hildegard's musical cosmos. The course is open to graduate and professional students, as well as to advanced undergraduates in Theology and the MI. The inter-disciplinary nature of the subject precludes prerequisites; all are welcome, and musical expertise is not required. Individual projects and presentations will be tailored to each student's training, interests, and expertise.

THEO 60609 - Section 01: Christn Ethics & Pastrl Pract. (CRN 18911)
Long Title: Christian Ethics and Pastoral Practice (MT)

Faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and savior has practical implications for the way believers construe the world and organize their lives. What these implications are for Christian life in some specific areas of life and the tensions which arise from the attempt of the Christian community to remain faithful to the teachings of the Lord Jesus while trying to live a fully human life - this is at the core of our course.

THEO 60639 - Section 01: Practical Theology (CRN 19627)
Long Title: Practical Theology: Pragmatism, Praxis and Ethics

How is theology related to the practical concerns of the Church? What place does the experience of the faithful play in identifying and articulating the Church?s response to the great moral challenges of our day? How do differences in culture and socio-economic location among the faithful impact how we interpret those challenges? Are these differences aids or hindrances to cooperative work among Christians who seek justice? How does the experience of faith in Christian families relate to the evangelical mission of the Church? This course will consider these and other questions in ecumenical perspective by exploring the historical development and contemporary expressions of the theological movement known as ?practical theology.? In the first half of the course, we will introduce the field of practical theology and examine the work of two Catholic thinkers of praxis and ministry (the Dominican theologians Gustavo Gutiérrez and Thomas O?Meara) in conversation with a key Protestant thinker in the practical theology movement (Don Browning). In the second half of the class, we will examine the work of contemporary practical theologians on three important social issues in the United States: racism, marriage, and the care of children. Theologians considered in the second half of the class include Catholics Diana Hayes and Lisa Cahill and Protestants Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Victor Anderson.

THEO 60640 - Section 01: God, Science, & Morality (CRN 19922)
Long Title: God, Science, and Morality

Recent advocates of biologicizing the study of morality claim that theological accounts of ethics are either superfluous or erroneous. After examining the evidence presented by scientists and philosophers who support this movement, students will then test the strength of the evidence against various scientific, philosophical, and theological critiques. Students will also evaluate constructive appropriations of the same biological findings by moral theologians. Course readings survey the fields of neuroscience (Joshua Greene, Jonathan Haidt), primatology (Frans de Waal, Marc Hauser), evolutionary psychology (E. O. Wilson, Stephen Pinker), philosophy of science (G. K. Chesterton, Michael Polanyi, Stephen Jay Gould, Philip Kitcher), philosophy of religion (Sarah Coakley, Timothy Jackson, John Hare), and natural law (C. S. Lewis, Jean Porter, Stephen Pope). Students will write a series of essays that culminate in a statement of their own theological response to these biological accounts of morality.

THEO 60701 - Section 01: Seeing Christ, Seeing Buddha (CRN 19385)
Long Title: Seeing Christ and Seeing the Buddha: Religion and the Visual Arts in Christianity and Buddhism

Until only recently, and in all the world's cultures, religion has been the chief inspiration and patron of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.). Religious traditions have generally gloried in the arts they have inspired and fostered, celebrating them for the ways in which they stimulate faith, enhance piety, and even shape theology. And yet, at various crucial times in history, the arts have become objects of religious suspicion and disdain, sometimes even to the point of being condemned or forbidden by religious authorities. This course will examine the complex relations between religion and the visual and plastic arts with an eye especially towards discerning what kinds of value religions have found in them and what reasons they have sometimes had to be wary of them. Focusing on two religions, Christianity and Buddhism, on the close study of selected masterpieces of the arts of both, and on their discourse about the arts, this course will treat of the significance of the arts in religion and the significance of religion in the arts. Please note that no prior study of Buddhism is required.

THEO 60702 - Section 01: Improvising Peace (CRN 19386)
Long Title: Improvising Peace: Toward a Theology of Peacebuilding

From a Christian theological point of view, peace is both a gift and a mission. Using life stories of exemplary Christian peace builders from around the world, the course will highlight five practices and disciplines: scriptural imagination, lament, hope, advocacy and spirituality, which define the Christian vision and practice of peace. The course is meant to serve as an extended argument for why and how the church matters for peace in the world, but also to display that the pursuit of peace is not the reserve of a few experts (peacebuilders), but the gift and mission of every Christian - "anyone in Christ."

THEO 60801 - Section 01: Fundmntls Systematic Theology (CRN 11364)
Long Title: Fundamentals of Systematic Theology

This course is a graduate level introduction to the nature, tasks, and methods of systematic theology. The primary focus of the course will be an analysis of the contributions of diverse 20th and 21st century theologians and theological movements to an understanding of the theological enterprise. Among the fundamental issues to be considered in the first half of the course are the following: the possibility and form of revelation; an understanding of faith and the relationship between faith and reason; the sources of theology and the interrelationship of scripture, tradition, and experience/praxis; the development and interpretation of doctrine; and the roles of the hierarchical magisterium, theologians, and the community of the baptized in preserving and handing on the authentic Christian tradition. The second half of the course explores a broad survey of contemporary methods of doing systematic theology.

THEO 60801 - Section 02: Fundmntls Systematic Theology (CRN 17275)
Long Title: Fundamentals of Systematic Theology

This course is a graduate level introduction to the nature, tasks, and methods of systematic theology. The primary focus of the course will be an analysis of the contributions of diverse 20th and 21st century theologians and theological movements to an understanding of the theological enterprise. Among the fundamental issues to be considered in the first half of the course are the following: the possibility and form of revelation; an understanding of faith and the relationship between faith and reason; the sources of theology and the interrelationship of scripture, tradition, and experience/praxis; the development and interpretation of doctrine; and the roles of the hierarchical magisterium, theologians, and the community of the baptized in preserving and handing on the authentic Christian tradition. The second half of the course explores a broad survey of contemporary methods of doing systematic theology.

THEO 60835 - Section 01: Canon Law (CRN 11678)

Note: M.A.-M.Div. students only. The purpose of this course is to provide students studying for ministry with an introduction to the law of the Roman Catholic Church. General principles for the interpretation of canon law as well as its history, and its relationship to theology and pastoral praxis are discussed. Although attention is given to the laws and canonical jurisprudence concerning marriage, other selected canonical topics of value to those in ministry are considered as well. (Fall)

THEO 60845 - Section 01: Comparative Spiritualities (CRN 18913)

This course provides a first introduction to some of the more influential spiritualities practiced by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians down through the ages and seeks to determine their significance for contemporary Roman Catholic spiritual praxis and theology. In order to properly understand the practices of Hindu yoga and bhakti, of Buddhist vipassana and Zen, of Muslim salat/namaz and Sufism, of the Eastern Orthodox Jesus Prayer/Hesychasm and the accompanying place of human effort in asceticism and morality, it will be necessary to examine underlying convictions about the nature of the human person and the supreme Reality, of Divine presence and grace, as well as the declared ultimate goal of spiritual endeavor, whether it be expressed more in terms of a communion of love or of enlightened higher consciousness. During the semester we will not only study important spiritual texts of other religions, but we will also practice meditation, visit a local mosque for Friday prayers and sermon, and be instructed by expert guest speakers who represent religious traditions other than our own. Students will be required to give at least one presentation on a class reading and write two five-page reflection papers and one ten to twelve-page research paper.

THEO 60846 - Section 01: Christology (CRN 15181)

"Christology" undertakes a critical study of [1] the origins of belief in Jesus Christ, [2] the Church's teachings concerning the "person" of Christ, [3] the Church's teachings concerning the "work" of Christ, and [4] current issues Christology. The primary texts for the course are the Bible and "Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus (NY: Oxford University Press, 2009) by Gerald O'Collins, S.J. The course requires students to write three essays and a reflection paper which is discussed in an oral examination at the end of the course.

THEO 60849 - Section 01: Christian Spirituality (CRN 19914)

This course will first set out some general principles of Christian spirituality, using Scripture and materials from Cunningham and Egan's Christian Spirituality: Themes From the Tradition. We will then consider some selected "classics" from the tradition of the Christian East (principally the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches) and the Christian West, including select writings from the Desert Fathers, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Pseudo-Macarius, Symeon the New Theologian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory Palamas, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, modern Russian spirituality, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Gustavo Gutierrez. Class participation, the timely submission of some short reflection papers, an occasional test, and a final research paper are required.

THEO 60887 - Section 01: Faith, Reason, & the Church (CRN 18914)
Long Title: Faith, Reason, and the Church

This course will study Catholic teaching and theology on the relationshp between faith and reason. We will consider faith and reason in magisterial and conciliar documents (Trent and Vatican II), and in representative theologians of patristic, medieval and modern times such as Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Pascal, Newman, deLubac, and hans Urs von Balthasar. We will link the different magisterial and theological views of the relationship between faith and reason to ecclesiology.

THEO 60962 - Section 01: Common Good Initiative Seminar (CRN 14538)
Long Title: Common Good Initiative Seminars

The Christian Gospel message and Catholic Social Tradition have from their inception defended the life and dignity of the human person, promoted the divine call to participation in family and community, fostered the dignity of work and the rights of workers, and called for solidarity with the poor and marginalized of society and stewardship of creation. Consequently, the Church's mission, as an extension of the Gospel imperative to work for justice, is rooted in Christ-centered love that expresses itself in compassionate care for the poor and vulnerable, as well as in sustained efforts to transform violent, oppressive, and unjust systems so often aligned with the causes of poverty and human suffering. Students preparing for ecclesial ministry are thus called to incorporate the teachings and practices of charity and justice ever more fully into their pastoral leadership development. The Pastoral Leadership Practicum is designed to assist students in their integration of theological study and pastoral praxis by means of community-based learning through immersion trips (1-2 weeks) located in regional, national, and international sites. Prior to, during, and after their on-site learning, students engage in theological reflection and social analysis so as to further develop those pastoral leadership skills necessary for every area of ministry within Roman Catholic ecclesial life, most especially within social justice ministry. In addition to their community-based work, students will explore the theological foundations of social justice ministry from five theologically and methodologically distinct areas of scholarship. Students will also examine the cultural context of poverty and systemic oppression and will integrate their experiences through facilitated dialogical sessions, a follow-up retreat, and 5 page integrative paper.

THEO 60963 - Section 01: Common Good Initiative Seminar (CRN 14540)
Long Title: Common Good Initiative Seminars

The Christian Gospel message and Catholic Social Tradition have from their inception defended the life and dignity of the human person, promoted the divine call to participation in family and community, fostered the dignity of work and the rights of workers, and called for solidarity with the poor and marginalized of society and stewardship of creation. Consequently, the Church's mission, as an extension of the Gospel imperative to work for justice, is rooted in Christ-centered love that expresses itself in compassionate care for the poor and vulnerable, as well as in sustained efforts to transform violent, oppressive, and unjust systems so often aligned with the causes of poverty and human suffering. Students preparing for ecclesial ministry are thus called to incorporate the teachings and practices of charity and justice ever more fully into their pastoral leadership development. The Pastoral Leadership Practicum is designed to assist students in their integration of theological study and pastoral praxis by means of community-based learning through immersion trips (1-2 weeks) located in regional, national, and international sites. Prior to, during, and after their on-site learning, students engage in theological reflection and social analysis so as to further develop those pastoral leadership skills necessary for every area of ministry within Roman Catholic ecclesial life, most especially within social justice ministry. In addition to their community-based work, students will explore the theological foundations of social justice ministry from five theologically and methodologically distinct areas of scholarship. Students will also examine the cultural context of poverty and systemic oppression and will integrate their experiences through facilitated dialogical sessions, a follow-up retreat, and 5 page integrative paper.

THEO 67001 - Section 01: MTS Colloquium (CRN 10443)

Required for all M.T.S. students. (Every semester)

THEO 60003 - Section 01: Elementary Hebrew II (CRN 21956)

Course Description:
This is the second of a two-semester introductory course in Biblical Hebrew; under normal circumstances, the student must complete the first in order to enroll in the second. In addition to the completion of Lambdin's elementary grammar, students are introduced to some (modified) Biblical texts.

THEO 60018 - Section 01: Intermediate Hebrew II (CRN 26404)

Course Description:
This fourth-semester course in biblical Hebrew will continue and build upon THEO 60006/83001. While the latter was devoted to the reading of biblical prose, this installment of Intermediate Hebrew will introduce students to the beauty of biblical Hebrew poetry. Our efforts will be focused on the preparation, oral reading, and translation of selected biblical passages. But time also will be spent continuing to review basic grammar as well as developing an appreciation of syntax and poetic structure (e.g., parallelism) in this powerful medium of prayer, prophetic revelation, and the quest for Wisdom in ancient Israel.

THEO 60102 - Section 01: New Testament Introduction (CRN 24548)

Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the writings in the New Testament in their ancient literary, historical, theological, and cultural contexts. The course is interested why these books were written, the problems faced by followers of Jesus, and the development of key theological ideas in the early church. The student will acquire skills for analyzing texts in their ancient context and using this information both to engage difficult Biblical passages and to answer hard questions faced by contemporary Christians.

THEO 60106 - Section 01: Prophets (CRN 28895)

Course Description:
We expect to cover the historical development of prophecy in Israel and early Judaism inclusive of early Christianity. Our method of work combines survey by means of set readings and "close readings" of selected prophetic texts. Attention will be given to comparative material in ancient and other cultures and to the sociological coordinates of prophetic phenomena, including ecstasy. Participants will be invited to reflect on the theological significance of prophetic mediation and the place of prophecy in Christian life today. (Alternate spring)

THEO 60113 - Section 01: The Gospel of John (CRN 28896)
Long Title: The Gospel of John (BS)

Course Description:
The purpose of this summer course is to introduce the student at the Master's level to present-day study of the Gospel of John. The Gospel will be covered by the interaction between class lectures on specific disputed topics or pericopes on the one hand and the reading of a Gospel commentary on the other. The major methods employed will be those of source, form, and redaction criticism, though recent literary theories will also be considered. Since this course is offered in the Department of Theology, the emphasis of the lectures will be on a synthetic overview of the theology of John's Gospel, divided into major themes, rather than on an exegesis of the whole Gospel in order. An overview of the whole Gospel in the order in which it was written will be gained by reading the commentary, quizzes on the readings, and discussions following the quizzes.

THEO 60120 - Section 01: Women & Christian Origins (CRN 28897)
Long Title: Women and the Origins of Christianity

Course Description:
The course is a survey of the New Testament and other literature from its context from a feminist perspective. It will delineate patterns of gender in the theology and structure of these works, attempt to retrieve the participation of women in the movements behind them, and consider the impact of the texts and their contexts in gender relations, sexual politics and arrangements of race and class in the 21st century. Participation, three short or one short and one longer paper.

THEO 60154 - Section 01: The Tabernacle/Temple Isrl (CRN 28898)
Long Title: The Tabrnacle/Temple in Ancient Israel

Course Description:
This course will begin with a detailed consideration of the literary and theological function of the Tabernacle pericope in the books of Exodus and Leviticus -- the longest extended literary unit in the Pentateuch. From there we will turn to related stories about the building and eventual destruction of the Temple at the hands of the Babylonians. The course will conclude with the visions of a new Temple that take root in the exilic period (Ezekiel and Isaiah among others), the relationship of those visions to the second Temple itself and the importance of all this literature for the way in which the New Testament and early Church understands the identity of Jesus.

THEO 60213 - Section 01: Eucharist in the Middle Ages (CRN 28899)
Long Title: The Eucharist in High Medieval Religion, Theology and Society

Course Description:
The Eucharist stands at the heart of western European Christianity in the high middle ages. The insistence of church officials on regular reception of the Eucharist; the numerous scholastic treatments of the theoretical issues associated with the Eucharist; the recourse by spiritual authors, especially women, to the Eucharist to express their most profound religious and devotional insights; the pointed reference to the Christ Eucharistically-present to establish Christian identity and to distinguish the members of Christ from others, both within and outside of western Europe; the development of new rituals focused on aspects of the Eucharist; the burgeoning of artistic representations of Eucharistic themes all testify to the centrality of the Eucharist in medieval theological and religious consciousness. Through the close reading of representative texts by a wide variety of 13th-century authors, and, the study of the different kinds of 'Eucharistic' art, this course examines the uses made of the Eucharist by a broad spectrum of high medieval Christians. A special concern of the course is the relation between Eucharistic doctrine and religious practice to what extent have teachings about transubstantiation and real presence shaped religious expression? How has religious experience itself occasioned the refinement of these doctrines?

THEO 60228 - Section 01: Patristic Exegesis (CRN 28900)

Course Description:
This course will be an examination of traditions of biblical interpretation in the early Church. Since the greatest proportion of exegetical literature in the early Church was homiletic, this course will also entail an examination of traditions of preaching. We will devote considerable attention to ancient allegorical schools of interpretation (Origen), to reactions against it ("Antiochene" exegesis), and to Western exegetes (Augustine, Gregory the Great). We will also look at the uses of the Bible in ascetical literature (desert Fathers and Mothers, etc.).

THEO 60278 - Section 01: Popes, Patriachs, and Councils (CRN 28901)
Long Title: Popes, Patriarchs, and Councils: Medieval Ecclesiology West and East

Course Description:
This course examines medieval theological thinking about the Church, her unity, her boundaries, the variety of cultural traditions within her, her place in the world, and the ways the Church should be structured and governed. We shall base our discussions upon the reading of the medieval Latin texts in translation from the time of the Gregorian Reform in the 11th century to the age of Conciliarism and the Pre-Reformers in the 15th century. The course will also provide an introduction into the main texts, figures and tenets of Byzantine ecclesiological thinking from the 11th century up to 1453 (about one third of the course material). We shall also explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges medieval thinking poses to contemporary ecclesiological discourse.

THEO 60283 - Section 01: Early Christian Jerusalem (CRN 28902)

Course Description:
How did Christians appropriate and create traditions about the holy land and city of Jerusalem? Early Christianity, emphasizing its other wordly and international mission, contained differing opinions about the importance of these places. This course explores various early Christian traditions about Jerusalem and the land of Israel -- their holiness for Christians as the land of promise, the site of the ministry and passion of Jesus, and, from the third to the seventh centuries, a center for pilgrims and monastic establishments. It also considers the role of the bishops of Jerusalem in theological controversy, imperial largesse and building programs and the ongoing importance of Jerusalem for ancient Judaism. The course also explores the adjustments among religious communities invested in the city and the land during the first centuries after the arrival of Islam.

THEO 60421 - Section 01: Liturgical Year (CRN 28903)
Long Title: Liturgical Year (LS)

Course Description:
An exploration of the origins, development and present significance of Sunday and Ordinary Time; Lent, Paschal Triduum and Easter Season; Advent, Christmas and Epiphany; feasts of Mary and the Saints. Special attention will be paid to comparing and contrasting the third typical edition of the Missal of Paul VI, which is the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, with the 1962 Missal, now recognized as the extraordinary form. Though academic, the course provides a highly desirable foundation for pastoral practice and spirituality. Required Reading: Adolf Adam, The Liturgical Year instead of Thomas Talley's, Origins of the Liturgical Year as the required reading. Other Requirements: Three reflection papers on required reading, each three pages in length, and a fifteen minute oral exam on selected class lectures at end of course.

THEO 60601 - Section 01: Foundations of Moral Theology (CRN 24553)

Course Description:
This course introduces the history and patterns of thought that provide the foundations for contemporary discussions about moral theology in the Roman Catholic Church. Its central aim will be to position moral theology as a practical and pastoral expression of Christian faith, but also as a tradition of inquiry relevant to wider discussions about moral matters in the academy and in society. Topics to be considered include: sources for moral theology, genres of moral writing, the nature of the human person and her relationship to the community of disciples, the dynamics of moral action, and the topics of freedom, experience, authority, virtue, and forgiveness. Course requirements include two short reflection papers and a final research paper, which may be customized to students own ongoing pastoral and/or academic questions.

THEO 60614 - Section 01: Catholic Social Teaching (CRN 23888)

Course Description:
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 60622 - Section 01: Christ Political Theo & Ethics (CRN 28904)
Long Title: Christian Political Theology and Ethics

Course Description:
Christians of all types are currently locked in intense debates over the extent to which moral convictions held by Christians may or must be enforced by political authority and over the question of whether contemporary liberal democracies are consonant with what Christian faith requires of the political order. This course examines the fundamental question behind these questions, namely, what are the theological and ethical criteria for a morally legitimate social and political order? For over a century Christian thinkers have attempted to derive those criteria from natural law, the teachings of Jesus, and the lordship of Christ. We will examine these efforts in writings by Catholic thinkers including Pope Leo XIII, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Gustavo Gutierrez, David Hollenbach, and John Paul II; Protestant writers including Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Oliver O'Donovan, and John Milbank; and secular writers such as Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and John Rawis.

THEO 60638 - Section 01: Restorative Justice (CRN 28905)

Course Description:
This course will begin by exploring the theoretical concept of justice in general and from the perspective of virtue ethics. Against that background, it will address various kinds of justice, including economic, social, racial, gender, environmental, and criminal justice with a view toward cultivating a restorative perspective. Legal concerns as well as theological insights from the Christian and other faith traditions will shape the courses developing account of restorative justice. Primary practices of restorative justice (circles, conferencing, and victim-offender dialogue) will receive sustained attention, along with issues challenging the implementation of restorative justice. This is a community-based learning course, requiring students to perform 20 hours of work in the local community at pre-arranged sites as part of the course. Enrollment is limited to 25 students. Graduate and law students will be required to produce 3 short papers and a 25-page paper based upon their fieldwork and related research. Undergraduate students will produce a portfolio totaling 15 pages, in addition to 2 short papers and an integration notebook.

THEO 60806 - Section 01: Ecclesiology (CRN 29161)

Course Description:
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 60833 - Section 01: Islam & Muslim Christian Dialo (CRN 28906)

Course Description:
In our course we will consider Christianity? Encounter with Islam, from the Islamic conquests of the 7th century to the internet age. The first section of the course is historical. We will examine how various historical contexts have affected the Christian understanding of Muslims and Islam, from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to September 11 and beyond. The second section of the course is systematic. How are Christians today to respond to Islam, in light of recent world events and recent Church teaching? In addressing this question we will analyze primary theological sources that express a range of responses, from pluralism to dialogue to evangelism. Students in this class will be introduced to the Quran, to the life of Muhammad, to the difference between Sunni and Shiite Islam, to Church teaching on Christianity? Eelationship with Islam, and to trends in the theology of religions.

THEO 60838 - Section 01: Orders and Ministry (CRN 22192)

Course Description:
This course looks at a theology of Christian ministry, both ordained and lay. The relevant official documents will be read, as well as secondary sources that articulate the sacrament of ordination, hierarchy, the lay apostolate and baptismal priesthood of all Christians, and current definitions of Lay Ecclesial Ministry. Both seminarians and lay divinity students should develop the concepts necessary to understand their particular ministry in the light of Church teaching and as a service to the people of God.

THEO 60880 - Section 01: Nineteenth Century Theology (CRN 28908)

Course Description:
This Master's level course will attempt to give a survey of the nineteenth century theology, while having a specific focus in the intersection of philosophy and theology. The course will in the main attend to the German trajectory from Kant to Nietzsche, with Schleiermacher and Hegel being the two figures that will receive most attention. The non-German representative on the course will be John Henry Newman. Here we will concentrate on Newman's religious epistemology. Texts that will be read in the course include Kant's Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone, Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith, Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals, and Newman's A Grammar of Assent.

THEO 60891 - Section 01: The Worlds of Buddhism (CRN 29740)

Course Description:
This course is designed to provide a thematic introduction to the pan-Asian (i.e., South, Southeast, Central Asian, and East Asian) Buddhist tradition. While exploring in some depth the fundamentals of Buddhist doctrine (its creeds, philosophical concepts, ethical principles, cosmologies, etc.) we will also sample major Buddhist practices (systems of meditation, liturgies, clerical institutions, canon formation, etc.) and will consider selected features of the religion’s role in the formation of the larger social, cultural, material, and political traditions of Asia. Visual as well as textual materials will be used throughout the term.

THEO 60892 - Section 01: Theology of Migration (CRN 29162)

Course Description:
Immigration is a complex issue that is changing the face of cultures and churches around the world. So extensive is this issue, and so significant its impact, that some have called our own times the age of migration. Though people have migrated since the beginning of time, the scope and scale of the issues are unprecedented. And while migration has been analyzed from virtually every academic discipline, much of the theology of migration has been undocumented. This course will explore the contours of a theology of migration. We will ground our discussion of an adequate understanding of the social, political and economic dimensions of migration, and we will study 1) the Church’s response to migrants, 2) the spirituality of migrants, and 3) a theology of migration. In particular we will explore the integral connection between the narratives of migrants today, the narratives of the Christian tradition and the Eucharist. We will examine ways they mutual inform and transform our understanding of faith in movement that seeks a more just and peaceful society.

THEO 67001 - Section 01: MTS Colloquium (CRN 23451)

Course Description:
Required for all M.A. and M.T.S. students. (Every semester)