Featured Courses
The following courses are available in the Winter 2024 semester.
Instructor: Dr. Éric Bellavance
Description: This course introduces the prophetic, wisdom, and deuterocanonical books of the Hebrew Bible. Topics discussed are literary genres, historical contexts, and theological themes, as well as the phenomenon of prophecy in the ancient Near East, the historical settings for the biblical prophetic and wisdom literature, the language, and the message of these biblical books.
Instructor: Steven Richard Scott
Description: This course is an introduction to Paul and his letters. In studying these writings, students engage in close examination of parts of the text (exegesis) and also discover the history and context of earliest Christianity.
Instructor: Dr. Jean-Michael Roessli
Description: This course examines the double movement of reform and heresy in the Middle Ages. It focuses on the most significant movements of reform and dissent of this period, such as the Gregorian reform, the so-called heresies of the Year Thousand, the Waldenses, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, the Cathars, the Rhineland mystics, the Lollards, and the Hussites.
Notes: Students who have taken this course under a THEO 298 number may not take this course for credit.
Instructor: Dr. Jean-Michel Roessli
Description: This course examines the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and its impact on the modern world, in the areas of religion, politics, economics, science and the arts. The first part of the course focuses on the Reformation theologians and their revolutionary ideas. The second part traces the influence that the Reformation has had on the world up to the present.
Instructor: Dr. Richard Bernier
Description: This course examines the history, symbols, and images of ritual and liturgical communication in Christianity, especially in baptism and eucharist. These “mysteries,” as the Christian sacraments were originally called, are studied in the context of a Christian life.
Instructor: Dr. Richard Bernier
Description: This course is a graduate seminar that explores expressions of Christian belief in universal salvation (or apokatastasis) from the patristic era to the current day, focusing on theological, biblical, and philosophical arguments for this view; alternative views such as "annihilationism"; and criticisms and rebuttals of universalism from the perspective of Christian faith.
Note: This course is open to master's and doctoral students in Theology or Religious Studies.