Additional Courses for Spring 2008:
SPRING 2008:
TH222 Bioethics and Social Justice (MON 3-5)
Will stress Christian approaches to death and dying, infertility therapies, abortion, genetics, health care reform, and AIDS, in a social ethics context. Feminist and intercultural perspectives will be included. (Completion of theology core is a prerequisite.)
Lisa Sowle Cahill
TH567 Theology and Bioethics (TUE 4:30-6:20)
Will stress Protestant and Catholic approaches to death and dying, infertility therapies, abortion, genetics, health care reform, and AIDS. Social justice will be a key concern. Feminist and intercultural perspectives will be included.
Lisa Sowle Cahill
TH 574 Theology and Spirituality in the Work of von Balthasar (WED 10-12)
Von Balthasar has written that “Only those theologies became vitally effective in history which bore their spirituality not as an addition, but within themselves, embodied in their innermost being” This seminar (open to graduate students and others with the permission of the instructor and limited to 14 participants) will read many of the “shorter” writings of von Balthasar, including: Love Alone, A Theology of History, Truth is Symphonic, and Epilogue) in order to explore the interrelation of theology and spirituality in his work.
Robert Imbelli
TH635 PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS: Influences and Ideas in the 19th and 20th Centuries (MON 10-11:50)
Two philosophers – F. W. J. Schelling (romantic idealism) and Martin Heidegger (existential ontology) – represent modern thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each exercised influence on theologians. Paul Tillich and Yves Congar drew upon the approach of Schelling, while Martin Heidegger was present in the exegesis and biblical theology of Rudolf Bultmann and the theology of Karl Rahner. To look at these philosophers and theologians is to gain some understanding of the course of modern philosophy after Kant and the recent history of Catholic and Protestant theologies. The theological themes will be revelation, grace, and church.
Thomas O’Meara, O.P.
TH687 Catholic Theological Ethics: 1300-1900 (TUE 2-4:20)
A survey of major figures in theological ethics: Duns Scotus; William of Ockham; Jean Gerson; Antoninus of Florence; Desiderius Erasmus; John Mair; Bartolome de las Casa; Juan Gines de Sepulveda; Francisco de Vitoria; Dominic Soto; Bartolome Medina; Council of Trent (1545-1563); Francesco de Toldeo; Thomas Sanchez; Francisco Suarez; Antonio Escobar; Blaise Pascal; Alphonsus Liguori; Johann Michael Sailer; Johann Baptist von Hirscher; Thomas Slater.
James Keenan, S.J.
