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Students explore the great truth that underlies the gospel message that Jesus is risen and is present with his people.

A study of modern Christian understandings of experiences of God in the world and their relation to the Catholic religious tradition, particularly the tradition's call to love. Non-religious experiences of a spiritual dimension to human existence will also be explored.

This course is a survey of the history of Christianity, from the time of its founder and its founding through the early period up to the modern era.

The nature and the function of the Roman Catholic Church are discussed, with a consideration of how the Church functions both in itself and in relation to other religious traditions.

This course is organized by theologian, period, or topic, with an emphasis on the engagement of Roman Catholic and Christian tradition with culture. Topics vary; see the University Course Schedule.

A one-credit online tutorial in the genres of writing in the discipline of Theology providing reinforcement of skills pertaining to forms of writing and research appropriate to theological inquiry, including the Turabian/University of Chicago style. Students complete exercises enabling them to build skills toward a fifteen-page research paper in an upper-level, 3-credit Theology course. Together with an upper-level Theology course containing a research component and THEO 31700 (Research in Theology), this course fulfills the Advanced Writing requirement for Theology majors. Topics and methods deployed to assess a given topic will vary from semester to semester and from student to student.

This introduction to the Old Testament, also called the Hebrew Bible, addresses the history, literature, religion and culture of ancient Israel.

The literature and world of the early Christian era are studied, with special emphasis on the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth and the development of the early Church.

This course offers a scriptural, theological and liturgical study of the nature of the sacraments both communal and personal. Special attention is given to the meaning of sacraments in contemporary times.

Students will explore fundamental aspects of the Christian moral theological tradition with regard to marriage, relationships, and sexuality, assessing this tradition on its own merits and in relation to contemporary cultural contexts and questions.

This course will focus on the lived religious experience of women in the three major monotheistic religions of the world—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The course perspectives will look at women as subjects and agents, not merely objects, of religious tradition, and explore persistent questions about women’s shaping of, and shaping by, religious traditions.

Students study the sociological, cultural and theological history of the Catholic Church in the United States, from colonial to modern times.

This course provides an overview of peace studies which examines human conflict and its peaceful transformation. Drawing from Catholic social teaching's imperatives, the emphasis will be on acquiring a justpeace lens in order to do social analysis through service learning and civic engagement. This course fulfills the 2000-level Theology requirement in the General Education plan. 

This course examines the gospel of Mark as a historical, literary, cultural and religious document. The gospel's origins and its message about Jesus and the church are explored and developed.

This course provides an introduction to the themes of the Qu'ran and the Bible, their roles within Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, their meanings to Muslims, Jews, and Christians, their relationships to each other, and their relevance to American history and American life. In addition to seeking a variety of insights into religion's capacity to give life meaning, students will hone their critical skills of reading, thinking, and formulating arguments. Study and examination take place with an eye toward practical application in both religious and secular environments.

Students will engage religious and theological questions and biblical themes through the examination of selected genre(s) of imaginative fiction, which may include novels, short stories, and works of film and/or television.

This course examines the most influential narratives, including Catholic Christian views of God and of human beings, shaping the meaning and experience of our health, our lives, and our deaths. Religious, medical, and other cultural worldviews will be compared and contrasted as offering differing ways of framing and addressing bioethical questions, including but not limited to: Is life the most sacred value? Is there a right to die? How should communities anticipate and care for the needs of the most vulnerable?

This course will explore justice as understood through the lens of Christian social teachings. Engaged with the community through service learning, the course examines social realities and practical responses to address a variety of concerns affecting today’s marginalized and oppressed persons and communities. This course fulfills the 20000-level Theology requirement in the General Education plan. 

This course considers how Christians are called to act in a world challenged by racism, poverty, consumerism and other complex, modern problems. Particular attention is given to the Roman Catholic perspective as expressed in Scripture, Church doctrine and papal teaching.

This course explores the ways in which religious faith and belief are expressed through the arts, including the visual and performing arts. The theatres, museums, concert halls and churches of Chicago and elsewhere may be used as resources for the class. This course is offered both as a traditional semester-long course and may also be offered as an accelerated travel course.

The fundamental goal of this course is to provide students with the resources to evaluate the Christian, particularly roman Catholic, understanding the relationship between modern western science and faith. The focus is on how theological and scientific methods influence the interpretation of selected contemporary scientific issues. This course fulfills the 20000-level Theology requirement in the General Education plan. 

This course centers on various ways to understand Christology, as well as the person and significance of Jesus of Nazareth. Biblical, classical and modern teachings are studied. This course fulfills the 20000-level Theology requirement in the General Education plan.

During the last three centuries, the size, global distribution and ethnic composition of world Christianity have been transformed. Most Christians now reside in the developing world, and the total number of Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America increases daily while the Christian communities in so-called 'developed' nations are growing smaller. This course will examine the history of missionary efforts during colonization as well as the indigenous movements and Vatican II reforms that reshaped the understanding and practices of mission and inculturation of Christianity around the world. This course fulfills the 20000-level Theology requirement and the globalization requirement in the General Education plan. 

This course focuses on theologies generated from Latin American, African-American, feminist and other perspectives, assessing the challenges and changes that marginalized perspectives bring to the traditional understanding of such theological topics as God, creation, human beings, salvation and the Holy Spirit.

This course compares the teachings of Christianity with the teachings and practices of selected non-Christian religions, possibly including Native-American religious traditions, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The aims of the course are to clarify similarities and differences between Christianity and other religions, to reflect on the problem posed by religious pluralism in modern culture, and to develop a Christian theology of world religions. This course fulfills the 20000-level Theology requirement in the General Education plan.