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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?
Screen notes: Who are the Israelites?
Reading: Theological Questions 2.2 What kind of god do we have?
Screen notes: What kind of god do we have?
Quiz 1
Reading: Theological Questions 2.3 If there is only one God and that god is good, how does evil exist?
Screen notes: Theodicy
Reading: Theological Questions 2.4 How should we live our lives?
Screen notes: Israelite Practice
Presentation: The Life of the Buddha
Presentation: Pantheism
Presentation: Hesiod, Theogony
Presentation: The Four Noble Truths
Presentation: Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
Presentation: The Eightfold Path
Quiz 2
Reading: Theological Questions 3.1 What changed with Hellenistic and Roman rule?
Screen notes: Afterlife
Reading: Theological Questions 3.2 What does God have planned for this world?
Screen notes: Eschatology
Reading: Theological Questions 3.3 Who is Jesus of Nazareth?
Screen notes: Jesus of Nazareth
Reading: Theological Questions 3.4 Why did Jesus die?
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?
Screen notes: Early Jewish and Christian Practice
Reading: “Mary, Mariology, and Marianists” in Theological Questions Supplements
Screen notes: Mary, Mariology, and the Marianist Family
Presentation: Mary in Islam
Presentation: One of the founders of the Marianist family
Reading: Theological Questions 4.1 What changed when the Roman Empire went from persecuting to endorsing Christianity?
Screen notes: Christology
Reading: Theological Questions 4.2 What is the Church?
Screen notes: Ecclesiology
Reading: Theological Questions 4.3 What is our relationship to the Jewish scriptures and people?
Screen notes: Supersessionism and Pluralism
Reading: Theological Questions 4.4 How should religious life be practiced?
Screen notes: Monasticism and Religious Orders
Presentation: Muhammed and the Jews of Mecca and Medina
Presentation: Sufism
Presentation: Kabbalah
Quiz 7
Reading: Theological Questions 5.1 What changed with the Renaissance leading to the Reformation?
Screen notes: Who were the Protestant Reformers?
Reading: Theological Questions 5.2 Whom do you trust with big decisions?
Screen notes: Scripture and Tradition
Reading: Theological Questions 5.3 What do I have to do to be saved?
Screen notes: Faith and Works
Reading: Theological Questions 5.4 The practice of the Christian faith and individual conscience
Screen notes: Individualism and Collectivism
Reading: Theological Questions 6.1 The historical context of 20th century Christian theology
Screen notes: Major Documents of Vatican II
Reading: Theological Questions 6.2 Faith and/or reason?
Screen notes: Faith and Reason
Presentation: Karl Marx
Presentation: Richard Dawkins
Presentation: New Age Movement
Presentation: Neither western religion nor western science
Quiz 10
Reading: Theological Questions 6.3 How is Christian faith relevant to the poor and oppressed today?
Screen notes: Liberation
Reading: Theological Questions 6.4 How should Christians practice their faith in the 20th and 21st centuries?
Screen notes: Natural Law
Reading: Theological Questions 7.1 Can we work together with each other and with the environment?
Screen notes: Global Environment
Reading: Theological Questions 7.2 Can we talk?
Screen notes: Synodality
Presentation: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Presentation: Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change
Presentation: Southern Baptist Convention
Quiz 12
Day and time announced by registrar.