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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
Dr. Hanneken will be in court serving jury duty. Group study is encouraged. Please also use the time to complete the course evaluations.
Day and time announced by registrar.