Teaching Assistant: Kristin Heyer (heyerkr@bc.edu)

Spring 2002, Carney Hall 205; Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30-11:45

Office hours: Monday through Thursday 1-3 or by app’t (552-3892)

This is the second half of the two-semester, 12 credit course fulfilling all core requirements in philosophy and theology. The details of the course are familiar to you already; they are provided in the syllabus for TH088.03/PL088.03.

1.) Field work (40% of your grade). The remaining 60% depends on

2.) weekly journals (10% of academic part of your grade)

3.) midterm exam (30% together)

4.) two reflection papers (three pages, typed, double spaced, relating readings and placements), graded on the basis of form and content (20% together)

5.) final exam on the readings (comprehensive, "objective" and essays) (30%)

6. classroom and discussion group participation (10%)
7. extra credit can be obtained by completing a five page book review of one of the recommended texts listed below and/or by attending a lecture announced in class

Note: failure in either class or field placement constitutes a failure in the course.

The Catholic Study Bible (Oxford University Press)

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)

John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration (Prometheus)

James Washington, Jr., ed., Testament of Hope (Harper and Row)

Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (Jossey-Bass)

Michael Himes, Doing the Truth in Love (Paulist)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (Dover)

Epictetus, The Enchiridion (Prometheus)

Raymond Brown, A Coming Christ in Advent (Liturgical Press)

St. Augustine, City of God (Penguin)

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage)

Henri Nouwen, Compassion (Image)

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (Harper)

Henri M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son (Image)

E. P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus (Penguin)

Note: both required and recommended texts are available at the O'Neill library reserve desk and at the bookstore

Week 1, January 15 and 17: Epictetus, Enchiridion (for Tuesday) and Catholic Study Bible RG417-437 and The Gospel of Luke, chapters 1 and 2 (for Thursday)

Week 2, Jan 22 and 24: Gospel of Luke, chapters 3-10; Brown, A Coming Christ

Week 3, Jan 29 and 31: Gospel of Luke, 11-19:27

Week 4, February 5 and 7: Gospel of Luke, complete

Week 5, Feb 12 and 14: Augustine, City of God, Book XI, chapters 1-8; XII, 22-24; XIII, 1-5, 14-15

Week 6, Feb 19 and 21: Augustine, Book XIV, chapters 1-4, 7, 9, 11-16; XIX, 4-21, 24-28; XXII, 24 and 30

Week 7, Feb 26 and 28: Locke, Second Treatise of Government

March 4-8 Spring break

Week 8, March 12 and 14: Locke, Letter Concerning Toleration

Week 9, March 19 and 21: Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (Tuesday) and Martin King in Washington, ed., Testament of Hope, pp. 417-490 (for Thursday)

*View on March 21: "Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings, 1954-56" in O’Neill 214

Week 10, March 26: King in Washington, pp.289-302, 518-554, 217-220

*View: "Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk, 1961-63" in O’Neill 214

Easter break March 28 and 29

Week 11, April 2 and 4: King, pp. 35-40, 491-517

Week 12, April 9 and 11: Himes, Doing the Truth in Love, through chapter 6

Week 13, April 16 and 18: Himes, complete

Week 14, April 23 and 25: Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

Week 15, April 30: Review for final exam

Mary 2 and 3, Study days

Final examination, place and time to be announced