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Screen notes: Introductions
Theological Questions 1.1 What is Theology and What Do Theologians Do?
Screen notes: Theology and Theologians
Reading: Theological Questions 2.1 Who are the Israelites?
Presentation: The Life of the Buddha
Screen notes: Who are the Israelites?
Reading: Theological Questions 2.2 What kind of god do we have?
Presentation: Pantheism
Screen notes: What kind of god do we have?
Travel Project Stage 1 due noon
Reading: Theological Questions 2.3 If there is only one God and that god is good, how does evil exist?
Presentation: The Four Noble Truths
Presentation: Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
Screen notes: Theodicy
Reading: Theological Questions 2.4 How should we live our lives?
Presentation: The Eightfold Path
Screen notes: Israelite Practice
Reading: Theological Questions 3.1 What changed with Hellenistic and Roman rule?
Presentation: Reincarnation
Screen notes: Afterlife
Reading: Theological Questions 3.2 What does God have planned for this world?
Presentation: Islamic Eschatology
Screen notes: Eschatology
Travel Project Stage 2 due noon
Reading: Theological Questions 3.3 Who is Jesus of Nazareth?
Presentation: Life of Muhammed
Screen notes: Jesus of Nazareth
Reading: Theological Questions 3.4 Why did Jesus die?
Presentation: Homer, Odyssey Book 11
Screen notes: Soteriology
Reading: Theological Questions 3.5 What will Jesus do in the future?
Screen notes: Judgment Day
Reading: Theological Questions 3.6 How should God’s people live their daily lives?
Presentation: Major Jewish Holidays
Screen notes: Early Jewish and Christian Practice
Screen notes: Travel to Sacred Space Project
Reading: Theological Questions 4.1 What changed when the Roman Empire went from persecuting to endorsing Christianity?
Presentation: Early Caliphates
Screen notes: Christology
Reading: Theological Questions 4.2 What is the Church?
Presentation: Maimonides
Screen notes: Ecclesiology
Reading: Theological Questions 4.3 What is our relationship to the Jewish scriptures and people?
Presentation: Muhammed and the Jews of Mecca and Medina
Screen notes: Supersessionism and Pluralism
Reading: Theological Questions 4.4 How should religious life be practiced?
Presentation: Sufism and/or Kaballah
Screen notes: Monasticism and Religious Orders
Travel Project Stage 3 due noon
Reading: Theological Questions 5.1 What changed with the Renaissance leading to the Reformation?
Presentation: Sunni and Shi'i
Screen notes: Who were the Protestant Reformers?
Reading: Theological Questions 5.2 Whom do you trust with big decisions?
Presentation: Hadith and Fiqh
Screen notes: Scripture and Tradition
Reading: “Mary, Mariology, and Marianists” in Theological Questions Supplements
Presentation: Mary in Islam
Screen notes: Mary, Mariology, and the Marianist Family
Reading: Theological Questions 5.3 What do I have to do to be saved?
Presentation: Nirvana
Screen notes: Faith and Works
Reading: Theological Questions 5.4 The practice of the Christian faith and individual conscience
Screen notes: Individualism and Collectivism
Travel Project Stage 4 due noon
Reading: Theological Questions 6.1 The historical context of 20th century Christian theology
Presentation: Karl Marx
Screen notes: Major Documents of Vatican II
Reading: Theological Questions 6.2 Faith and/or reason?
Presentation: Richard Dawkins
Presentation: New Age Movement
Screen notes: Faith and Reason
Reading: Theological Questions 6.3 How is Christian faith relevant to the poor and oppressed today?
Presentation: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Screen notes: Liberation
Reading: Theological Questions 6.4 How should Christians practice their faith in the 20th and 21st centuries?
Screen notes: Natural Law
Presentation: Abortion in Other Religions
Travel Project Stage 5 due noon
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