REL 260 - Seminar in the Christian Tradition

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

An introduction to perduring issues in Christian theology and ethics through study of one or more of the classical Christian theologians.

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REL 260: Christian Mystical and Visionary Traditions (3). This course explores classical Christian texts from antiquity to the present that concern a particular phenomenon, namely the desire for and experience of the divine presence. Certain of Christianity’s great figures have embraced this “mystical” mode of experience and expression while others have consciously avoided it. Beginning with biblical (Jewish and Christian) and classical Greek materials, and moving on to particular figures and movements in the patristic, medieval, Reformation, and post-Enlightenment eras, we examine both primary texts and various theories (e.g., theories of language, psychology and religion) pertinent to them. Brown.