LR - General Education

This course invites students to understand and use theological language to address challenges to faith offered by the human struggle to answer questions about identity, community, life and death, meaning, and God. Christian attempts to answer these questions will be explored in comparison to other world views.

This course invites students to understand and use theological language to examine Christian faith claims about God, Jesus, Church, sacraments and liturgy, sin, and salvation. The evolution of Christian thought is treated, and special emphasis is placed on issues affecting twenty-first century Christianity.

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

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 focuses on the principles of Christian morality. It seeks to speak to the real lives of Christians today and present moral principles in an internally consistent way.