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Students explore the great truth that underlies the gospel message that Jesus is risen and is present with his people.

A study of modern Christian understandings of experiences of God in the world and their relation to the Catholic religious tradition, particularly the tradition's call to love. Non-religious experiences of a spiritual dimension to human existence will also be explored.

This course is a survey of the history of Christianity, from the time of its founder and its founding through the early period up to the modern era.

The nature and the function of the Roman Catholic Church are discussed, with a consideration of how the Church functions both in itself and in relation to other religious traditions.

This course is organized by theologian, period, or topic, with an emphasis on the engagement of Roman Catholic and Christian tradition with culture. Topics vary; see the University Course Schedule.

A one-credit online tutorial in the genres of writing in the discipline of Theology providing reinforcement of skills pertaining to forms of writing and research appropriate to theological inquiry, including the Turabian/University of Chicago style. Students complete exercises enabling them to build skills toward a fifteen-page research paper in an upper-level, 3-credit Theology course. Together with an upper-level Theology course containing a research component and THEO 31700 (Research in Theology), this course fulfills the Advanced Writing requirement for Theology majors. Topics and methods deployed to assess a given topic will vary from semester to semester and from student to student.

This introduction to the Old Testament, also called the Hebrew Bible, addresses the history, literature, religion and culture of ancient Israel.

The literature and world of the early Christian era are studied, with special emphasis on the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth and the development of the early Church.

This course offers a scriptural, theological and liturgical study of the nature of the sacraments both communal and personal. Special attention is given to the meaning of sacraments in contemporary times.

Students will explore fundamental aspects of the Christian moral theological tradition with regard to marriage, relationships, and sexuality, assessing this tradition on its own merits and in relation to contemporary cultural contexts and questions.

This course will focus on the lived religious experience of women in the three major monotheistic religions of the world—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The course perspectives will look at women as subjects and agents, not merely objects, of religious tradition, and explore persistent questions about women’s shaping of, and shaping by, religious traditions.

Students study the sociological, cultural and theological history of the Catholic Church in the United States, from colonial to modern times.

This course provides an overview of peace studies which examines human conflict and its peaceful transformation. Drawing from Catholic social teaching's imperatives, the emphasis will be on acquiring a justpeace lens in order to do social analysis through service learning and civic engagement.

This course examines the gospel of Mark as a historical, literary, cultural and religious document. The gospel's origins and its message about Jesus and the church are explored and developed.

Students will engage religious and theological questions and biblical themes through the examination of selected genre(s) of imaginative fiction, which may include novels, short stories, and works of film and/or television.

This course will explore justice as understood through the lens of Christian social teachings. Engaged with the community through service learning, the course examines social realities and practical responses to address a variety of concerns affecting today’s marginalized and oppressed persons and communities.

This course considers how Christians are called to act in a world challenged by racism, poverty, consumerism and other complex, modern problems. Particular attention is given to the Roman Catholic perspective as expressed in Scripture, Church doctrine and papal teaching.

This course explores the ways in which religious faith and belief are expressed through the arts, including the visual and performing arts. The theatres, museums, concert halls and churches of Chicago and elsewhere may be used as resources for the class. This course is offered both as a traditional semester-long course and may also be offered as an accelerated travel course.

This course centers on various ways to understand Christology, as well as the person and significance of Jesus of Nazareth. Biblical, classical and modern teachings are studied.

The effects of Western Christianity, as well as the effects of colonialism and neo-colonialism on Third World peoples are studied. Students learn how Christianity is practiced among ordinary people in Asia, Latin America and Africa and how Christianity has been enculturated in non-western cultures.

This course focuses on theologies generated from Latin American, African-American, feminist and other perspectives, assessing the challenges and changes that marginalized perspectives bring to the traditional understanding of such theological topics as God, creation, human beings, salvation and the Holy Spirit.

This course compares the teachings of Christianity with the teachings and practices of selected non-Christian religions, possibly including Native-American religious traditions, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The aims of the course are to clarify similarities and differences between Christianity and other religions, to reflect on the problem posed by religious pluralism in modern culture, and to develop a Christian theology of world religions.