Religion-Christianity

In this tutorial, students will work with manuscripts to produce an edition of a Greek text, an English translation of that edition, and a short commentary on the text. Students will also assemble an annotated bibliography.

In this tutorial, students will work on developing translation skills: grammar will be reviewed as necessary.

A tutorial covering major themes and texts in Christian moral thought from antiquity to present.

This course provides advanced training in the study of American Religions and American Catholic History through careful analysis of selected landmark scholarship in the field. We especially explore themes of how Catholicism has been enculturated in America, how the faith tradition and practice have interacted with the social, cultural, and political environment of the nation.

Tutorial introducing graduate students to advanced scholarly inquiry into the history of the category of "peace" from Greco-Roman antiquity until today, and its associated and secondary literature.

This individualized tutorial will introduce graduate students to some of the major Roman Catholic documents and theologians of/following the Second Vatican Council, with coverage of a variety of themes (including theological aesthetics, mysticism and contemplation, inculturation, liberation theology, and theopoetics) and geographies.

In the academic study of Christian thought, ¿liberation theology¿ encompasses scholarship that ties reflection on God, Jesus of Nazareth, human beings, creation, the Holy Spirit, and ethics to analyses of race and racism, sex and gender, economic injustice, poverty, sexuality, and colonialism. This graduate tutorial engages landmark and contemporary texts by liberation theologians, many of whom hail from North and South America.

This tutorial examines icon and their position in Christian practice and theology, with an emphasis on Eastern Christian traditions (Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East). The tutorial will address the theology of icons, the iconoclasm controversy, the spiritual practice of creating icons, and the use of icons in prayer and worship.