Summary of Requirements

Required Courses: 30 credits

• PHIL2026

  ETHICS (SLRS)

  PHIL2026
  ETHICS (SLRS)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A survey of historical and contemporary responses to significant moral problems encountered in the Christian life. Topics include conscience, racism, peace and war, ecology, population control, economic justice and capital punishment. (SLRS)

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• RELS1001

  OLD TESTAMENT (SLRS)

  RELS1001
  OLD TESTAMENT (SLRS)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course will examine the beginnings of a people called Israel, as related in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Special attention will be given to the process of a social revolution in the Ancient Near East which gave rise to this people who entered into a covenant with their God Yahweh, a God whose worship mandated radical equality and social justice. (SLRS)

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• RELS1002

  NEW TESTAMENT (SLRS)

  RELS1002
  NEW TESTAMENT (SLRS)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course examines the person and message of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible. Special focus will be given as to how Jesus’ message continues the Old Testament tradition of the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom which creates a new world order based on radical equality and social justice. (SLRS)

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• RELS1003

  WORLD RELIGIONS (SLRS)

  RELS1003
  WORLD RELIGIONS (SLRS)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course examines the historical development together with the religious beliefs and practices of the major religions of the world including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism. The teachings of each religion regarding the Absolute, the world, the nature of humans, the problem facing humans, the solution of the problem for humans, Community and Ethics, Rituals and Symbols, and what happens after death will be studied. The course also includes an examination of the beginnings of religion in human history as well as the characteristics of tribal and national religions. (SLRS)

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• RELS1011

  CHURCH HISTORY

  RELS1011
  CHURCH HISTORY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An examination of the unfolding and growth of Christian thought in the Western world and analysis of the notion of theological development.

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• RELS1016

  SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY

  RELS1016
  SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An examination of the foundational elements of the Church's sacramental life from the perspectives of theology, history and anthropology beginning with a discussion of the lived experience of sacraments and developing various models which have guided sacramental praxis, with emphasis on the contemporary influences of symbol and ritual studies.

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• RELS2014

  CHRISTOLOGY

  RELS2014
  CHRISTOLOGY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A systematic study of the beliefs of the church in the person of Jesus as reflected in Scripture and the early church councils and a survey of contemporary Christological teaching. (SLRS)

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• RELS2020

  WOMEN & RELIGION

  RELS2020
  WOMEN & RELIGION

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A survey of woman's place in society, past and present, as it has been and is affected by religious teachings, laws and customs and examination of the attitudes toward women in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, in the writing of the early church fathers, the Protestant Reformers, and in the current religious structures of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. (SLRS)

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• RELS2034

  CHURCH: INSTITUTION AND COMMUNITY

  RELS2034
  CHURCH: INSTITUTION AND COMMUNITY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  The Church is both an institution and a community of people united in their belief that Jesus is the Savior of the World. This course examines the Church from a scriptural, historical and theological perspective.

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