2. Approaches to Studying Religion (three courses):
Three courses, one in each area, covering more than one major religious tradition; level II or level III courses may be used to fulfill this requirement; a general education course in theological studies [BTS-T] may count toward this requirement:
Sacred Texts
(Text-oriented studies of sacred writings):
- Rel 221 Jesus in Scripture and Tradition and Religion
- Rel 222 The Biblical God
- Rel 223 Paul: his Letters, his Gospel
- Rel 270 Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
- Rel 271 Historical Geography and the Bible in the Holy Land
- Rel 273 Hebrew Prophets
- Rel 276 The Ethics of Jesus
- Rel 320 Interpreting Sacred Texts
- Religion in History and Culture
- (Historical studies of religious communities and cultural expressions):
- Rel 212 Christian Theology in Historical Context
- Rel 210 Theology of Food
- Rel 213 Lutheran Heritage
- Rel 214 Reformation Theology
- Rel 215 Types of Protestantism
- Rel 226 Christian Theology and Visual Arts
- Rel 228 Worship and Theology
- Rel 229 Bergman and the Possibility of Christian Theology
- Rel 233 God and Faith in Autobiography
- Rel 238 Quest of the Ring, the Grail and the Cross
- Rel 240 Understanding Religious Traditions
- Rel 241 Judaism, Christianity, Islam
- Rel 243 Living Faith: Theology and Practice at Holden Village
- Rel 246 Islam
- Rel 247 American Judaism in Context: New York City
- Rel 248 Judaism
- Rel 251 Religions of South Africa
- As/Rel 254 Jesus on the Indian Road
- Rel 256 Gender and Religion
- As/Rel 256 Religions of China and Japan
- Rel 259 Religion and Culture in Rome (abroad)
- Rel 260 Religion in America
- Rel 262 Catholic Rome, Lutheran Wittenberg
- Rel 267 African – American Religious Thought
- Rel 272 Sacred Place in Greece and Turkey
- Rel 275 Historical Geography and the Bible
- Rel 277 Travel and Ethics
- Rel 280 Religion and Literature
- Rel 282 Obama’s Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr
- Rel 293 Religious Pluralism and the Nature of Community
- Religious Thought
(Theological and philosophical studies of religious ideas):
- Rel 201 Essentials of Christian Theology
- Rel 202 Classics and Moderns
- Rel 203 The Greats
- Rel 207 Christian Theology and the Moral Life
- Rel 208 Christian Theology and Human Existence
- Rel 209 Introduction to Feminist Theology
- Rel 210 Theology of Food
- Rel 217 Christian and Islamic Ethics
- Rel 218 Political and Liberation Theology
- Rel 225 God and Human Suffering
- Rel 227 Jews and Christian after Christendom
- Rel 230 Theology of Creation
- Rel 234 Luther and Aquinas
- Rel 235 Kiekegaard as Theologian
- Rel 239 Beyond Narnia
- Rel 242 Gandhi, Niebuhr, and King
- Rel 244 The Death of God
- Rel 245 Theology of Religion and Interreligious Dialogue
- Rel 252 Issues in Science and Religion
- Rel 253 Hinduism
- Rel 254 Theology in Comparative Perspective
- Rel 257 Buddhism
- Rel 263 Roman Catholic Theology
- Rel 264 Theology and Sexuality
- Rel 267 African-American Religious Thought
- Rel/Phil 278 The Ethics of War
- Rel 278 Christian Ethics and Ecological Justice
- Rel 282 Obama’s Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr
- Rel 289 Buddhism, Peace and Justice
- Rel 293 Religious Pluralism and the Nature of Community
- Rel 296 Love, Justice, and Social Relations
- Rel 297 Christian Ethics, Life and Death
- Rel 302 History of Christian Thought I
- Rel 303 History of Christian Thought II
- Rel 304 History of Christian Thought III
- Rel 341 Conscience and Its Critics
- Rel 342 Christian Environmental Ethics
- Rel 344 Feminist Perspectives and Christian Ethics
- Rel 366 Christian Theology and Political Life