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Handouts: Syllabus, Introductions
Reading: Theological Questions, 1.1. What is Theology and What Do Theologians Do?
Handout: 1.1 Theology and Theologians
Reading: Theological Questions, 2.1. Who Are the Israelites?
Quiz 1
Handout: 2.1 Who Are the Israelites?
Reading: Theological Questions, 2.2. What Kind of God Do We Have?
Quiz 2
Handout: 2.2 What kind of god do we have?
Handout: Heritage
Reading: Theological Questions, 2.3. If There Is Only One God and That God Is Good, How Does Evil Exist?
Quiz 3
Handout: 2.3 Theodicy
Reading: Theological Questions, 2.4. How Should We Live Our Lives?
Quiz 4
Handout: 2.4 Israelite Practice
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.1. What Changed with Hellenistic and Roman Rule?
Quiz 5
Handout: 3.1 Afterlife
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.2. What Does God Have Planned for This World?
Quiz 6
Handout: 3.2 Eschatology
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.3. Who Is Jesus of Nazareth?
Prepare video clip in Canvas: PBS Frontline, From Jesus to Christ, Roles of Jesus’s Ministry
Quiz 7
Handout: 3.3 Jesus of Nazareth
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.4. Why Did Jesus Die?
Prepare video clip in Canvas: PBS Frontline, From Jesus to Christ, Responses to the Death of Jesus
Quiz 8
Handout: 3.4 Soteriology
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.5. What Will Jesus Do in the Future?
Prepare video clip in Canvas: The Simpsons, Thanks God Its Doomsday
Quiz 9
Handout: 3.5 Judgment Day
Reading: Theological Questions, 3.6. How Should God’s People Live Their Daily Lives?
Prepare video clip in Canvas: PBS Frontline, From Jesus to Christ, Property, Egalitarianism
Quiz 10
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, 4.1. What If the Roman Empire Isn’t So Bad After All?
Quiz 11
Handout: 4.1 Christology
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, 4.3. What is Our Relationship to the Jewish Scriptures and People?
Quiz 13
Handout: 4.3 Supersessionism and Pluralism
Reading: Theological Questions, 4.4. How Should Religious Life Be Practiced?
Quiz 14
Handout: 4.4 Monasticism and Religious Orders
Reading: Theological Questions, 5.1. What Changed with the Renaissance Leading to the Reformation?
Prepare video clip in Canvas: Martin Luther, Driven to Defiance
Quiz 15
Reading: Theological Questions, 5.2. Whom Do You Trust with Big Decisions?
Quiz 16
Handout: 5.2 Scripture and Tradition
Reading: Theological Questions, 5.3. What Do I Have to Do to Be Saved?
Quiz 17
Handout: 5.3 Faith and Works
Reading: Theological Questions, 5.4. The Practice of the Christian Faith and Individual Conscience
Quiz 18
Handout: 5.4 Individualism and Collectivism
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, 6.1. The Historical Context of 20th Century Christian Theology
Quiz 19
Handout: 6.1 Major Documents of Vatican II
Reading: Theological Questions, 6.3. How Is Christian Faith Relevant to the Poor and Oppressed Today?
Quiz 21
Handout: 6.3 Liberation
Reading: Theological Questions, 6.4. How Should Christians Practice Their Faith in the 20th Century?
Quiz 22
Handout: 6.4 Natural Law
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, 7.1. Can We Work Together with Each Other and with the Environment?
Quiz 23
Handout: 7.1 Global Environment
Handout: TBA
Reading: Theological Questions, Sections 1-3 of Appendix A. Mary, Mariology, and the Marianist Family
Quiz 25
Reading: Theological Questions, Sections 4-5 of Appendix A. Mary, Mariology, and the Marianist Family
Quiz 26
Handout: TBA
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