Spring 2002 Courses
DVSC 622 30300
Introduction to Constructive Studies in Religion
Meltzer/Tracy
Required of and open only to
M.A. students in Divinity.
Discussion groups will be arranged at first class session.
BIBL 603 34100
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
Staff
PQ: BIBL 34000 or equivalent.
BIBL 603 35400
Introductory Koine Greek 3
Staff
PQ: BIBL 35300 or one year college-level
Greek.
Ident NTEC 35400
BIBL 603 39800
German: Lecture/Discussion Group
Klauck
In this additional course, German
exegetical and theological literature will be read and discussed;
only German may be used in this class, which is intended to help students
to achieve greater fluency in German.
Ident NTEC 39800
BIBL 603 41800
The Old Testament in the Gospel of John
Klauck
The fourth Gospel will be approached
in an unusual, but important way, namely by concentrating on those
passages the author is working on with material from the Hebrew Bible
or the Septuagint. The issue of intertextuality will be considered.
Proficiency in Greek not required but additional sessions will be
offered for the reading of the text in the original Greek.
Ident NTEC 41800
BIBL 603 51400
Deutero-Isaiah
Frymer-Kensky
This course is devoted to an
exegesis of Deutero-Isaiah. Students are expected to be proficient
in Biblical Hebrew and to be able to prepare a text carefully. Class
preparation and presentation is the core of this course. In addition,
students will prepare a paper on some aspect of Deutero-Isaiah or
some question raised by her/him.
PQ: Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew .
BIBL 603 51500
Brauer Seminar: Constructive Biblical Theology: The Bible and Contemporary Theology
Frymer-Kensky /Tracy
This course is devoted to constructing
contemporary theology in dialogue with the Hebrew Bible. The course
will be a seminar with intensive student participation. Students will
be expected either to have taken Biblical Theology in the winter or
to have read the relevant studies of historical Biblical theology.
Each student will be expected to write a paper on some aspect of theological
interest which uses the Bible as a resource for contemporary thinking
in a sophisticated non-literalist way.
PQ: One Bible and one constructive course. Ident. THEO 51500. By application
only.
BIBL 603 51900
Seminar: The Acts of Thomas
Klauck
As a specimen of the apocryphal
Acts of the Apostle, we will deal with the especially important Acts
of Thomas (written in Greek). We will also try to include the rather
short Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles from Nag Hammadi (preserved
only in Coptic).
Ident NTEC 51900 PQ: Greek
BIBL 603 53000
Flavius Josephus and Early Christian Literature
Mitchell
An investigation into the writings
of Flavius Josephus and their interpretive significance and value
for such issues in early Christian literature as: the historical figures
of John the Baptist, Jesus, and James the brother of the Lord; first-century
Jewish social, religious and political history; the rise of (auto)biographical
literature; Josephan historiography and apologetics and the genre
of Luke-Acts; modes of Hellenistic Jewish biblical interpretation;
and the role and stature Josephus came to occupy for later Christian
authors such as Origin and Eusebius.
PQ: Greek and previous coursework in Bible or NTEC.
Ident. NTEC 53000.
THEO 604 30300
History of Christian Thought III
Schreiner
Ident. HCHR 30300
THEO 604 31200
History of Theological Ethics II
Schweiker
A history of theological ethics
from the medieval/reformation period to the late-twentieth century.
Ident. RETH 31200
THEO 604 39601
Themes in Modern Political Theology
Part II
Lilla
This seminar, which will be conducted
in the Fall (2001) and Spring (2002) semesters, will consider some
basic controversies in modern political theology through a survey
of twentieth-century Christian and Jewish thinkers. Among the themes
to be discussed are: liberalism (theological and political), revelation,
authority, eschatology, redemption, messianism, revolution, modernity,
secularization, citizenship and nationalism. A wide range of authors
will be examined, including Troeltsch, Cohen, Otto, Barth, Resenweig,
Buber, Bloch, Benjamin, Scholem, Schmitt, Strauss, Voegelin, Metz,
Moltmann, and Niebuhr. Students may register separately for the two
semesters.
Note: Course meetings alternate weekly between Tues and Thurs
Ident SCTH 40102
THEO 604 41300
Calvin's Institutes
Schreiner
Ident HCHR 41700
THEO 604 50500
Mysticism, Memory, and Trauma
Hollywood
Some accounts of Christian meditative
practices and of the visionary, ecstatic experiences to which they
give rise bear a curious similarity to modern discussions of memory
and trauma. The seminar will explore the extent and meaning of this
convergence through readings of late medieval meditative, hagiographical,
and mystical texts (e.g. Meditations on the Life of Christ, The Life
of Christina and the Astonishing, Angela of Foligno's Book) and modern
research on trauma and memory (including work by Pierre Janet, Sigmund
Freud, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Judith Herman, Cathy Caruth,
and Ruth Leys). PQ: None although a reading knowledge of Latin, French,
or German would be useful.
Ident DVPR 50500
THEO 604 51100
Late Medieval Mysticism II
McGinn
IPQ: Reading knowledge of Latin
or Medieval vernacular language.
Ident. HCHR 51000.
THEO 604 51500
Brauer Seminar: Constructive Biblical Theology: The Bible and Contemporary Theology
Tracy /Frymer-Kensky
This course is devoted to constructing
contemporary theology in dialogue with the Hebrew Bible. The course
will be a seminar with intensive student participation. Students will
be expected either to have taken Biblical Theology in the winter or
to have read the relevant studies of historical Biblical theology.
Each student will be expected to write a paper on some aspect of theological
interest which uses the Bible as a resource for contemporary thinking
in a sophisticated non-literalist way.
PQ: One Bible and one constructive course. Ident. BIBL 51500. By application
only.
DVPR 605 30200
Moral Perfectionism
Cavell
Meets every third week over
three quarters. Check with the philosophy department for exact dates.
Ident PHIL 31200/ RLST 24000
DVPR 605 40600
The End of Metaphysics
Marion
In this course we discuss the
origin of this theme, its range and its propositions. Does it mean
the impossibility of philosophy as well as metaphysics? What exception
of metaphysics is admitted? Does it imply a closure of metaphysics
and/or an opening of new possibilities for philosophy? Special attention
is paid to Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Carnap.
Ident. SCTH 40400/Phil 34900/RLST 23800
DVPR 605 50500
Mysticism, Memory, and Trauma
Hollywood
Some accounts of Christian meditative
practices and of the visionary, ecstatic experiences to which they
give rise bear a curious similarity to modern discussions of memory
and trauma. The seminar will explore the extent and meaning of this
convergence through readings of late medieval meditative, hagiographical,
and mystical texts (e.g. Meditations on the Life of Christ, The Life
of Christina and the Astonishing, Angela of Foligno's Book) and modern
research on trauma and memory (including work by Pierre Janet, Sigmund
Freud, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Judith Herman, Cathy Caruth,
and Ruth Leys). PQ: None although a reading knowledge of Latin, French,
or German would be useful.
Ident THEO 50500
DVPR 605 54700
The Phenomenology of Love
Marion
Ident. SCTH 40600/ Phil 54700
CHRM 606 30300
Public Church and Its Ministry
Schweiker
PQ: Open only to M.Div. students
CHRM 606 35700
Arts of Ministry: Pastoral Care
Greenfield
CHRM 606 40400
Practicum: Field Education
Thompson
Ident. RETH 46200
HIJD 625 31000
Medieval Aesthetics: God, Nature and Beauty
Pessin
Ident JWSG 31300
HCHR 626 30300
History of Christian Thought III
Schreiner
Ident. THEO 30300
HCHR 626 31200
Transatlantic Perspectives on Modern Christianity
Gilpin
A comparative history of Christianity in Europe and the Americas, since 1600, employing selected issues to examine the circulation of religious movements and ideas in the transatlantic world and the connection of Christianity to wider developments in politics, science, and culture.
HCHR 626 41700
Calvin's Institutes
Schreiner
Ident THEO 41300
HCHR 626 42600
The American Religious Historical Canon
Brekus
This course examines traditional
narratives of American religious history. Beginning with Robert Baird's
Religion in America (1842), and concluding with Mark Noll's A History
of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992), we will trace
how scholars have imagined the whole "Plot" of American
religious history. We will focus particularly on how the ideas of
the canon have changed over time. Students are required to lead class
discussion once during the quarter and to write one 20-25 page paper.
Final grades will be based on written work and oral participation.
Ident HIST 48700
HCHR 626 43000
Loss and the Study of Lives
Homans
This course explores the experience
of loss as it occurs both in the life-course of individuals and in
the collective life of groups, institutions, nations and even whole
civilizations. We will begin by reviewing existing studies of the
life-course as these have been developed in academic and therapeutic
(that is, psycho-dynamic) psychologies, often in relation to the writing
and reading of biographies and autobiographies. Then we will turn
to the more recent work on collective loss, mourning and memory, and
the ways in which whole societies represent their experiences of loss
and write their histories. Special attention will be given such topics
as creativity, forgetfulness and the struggle to re-create shared
meanings. Slide presentations will explore representations of loss
in 20th Century war memorials and Holocaust memorials.
Ident DVSR 43000/ HUDV 43000/SOSC 43000
HCHR 626 51000
Late Medieval Mysticism II
McGinn
Reading Knowledge of Latin or
Medieval vernacular language.
Ident. THEO 51100
HREL 628 36100
Second Year Sanskrit
Kapstein
Ident SANS 20300/SALC 48400
HREL 628 40600
Religion, Law and Culture
Sullivan
In this course we will examine legal materials from a range of modern and pre-modern societies with a view to gaining a greater understanding of the various intersections between these two cultural forms. As we sample the encounter between religion and law in different cultures we also will be engaging different disciplinary approaches to the study of religion and law.
HREL 628 43100
Contemporary Islamic Politics
Mahmood
PQ: Background in Middle East
History
Ident ANTH 50900
HREL 628 43200
Politics and the Perfectible Body
Lincoln
Ident Anthro 53400
HREL 628 44100
Hesiod
Lincoln/Faroane
Ident GREK 49200
HREL 628 45900
Graduate Sem: Dunhuang Manuscript Studies
Harper/Mollier
An introduction to the Dunhuang
manuscripts, focusing on manuscripts related to medieval culture.
Ident CHIN 45900
HREL 628 50700
Contemporary Theory and the Study of Religion
Mahmood
Ident ANTH 55000
RLIT 635 30000
Introduction to Religion & Literature
Rosengarten
A course in theories of reading
and in the practice of interpreting texts (where "text"
is primarily understood to be a written artifact but may also embrace
the pictorial, esp. film and painting). The theme of the course is
the powers and limits of textual interpretation in the study of religion.
The theme is addressed topically through consideration of selected
categories of analysis (e.g. genre, narrative, image, and metaphor)
and philosophically through reading in hermeneutics and aesthetic
theory. The course has no prerequisites.
Ident. ENG. 30100
RETH 638 31200
History of Theological Ethics II
Schweiker
A history of theological ethics
from the medieval/reformation period to the late-twentieth century.
Ident. THEO 31200
RETH 638 52000
Augustine's City of God
Elshtain
A close reading of Augustine's
great masterwork with a strong emphasis on his critical deconstruction
of the politics, rhetoric, and civic religion of Rome and on the social,
political, and cultural implications of his concept of a pilgrim people
in their sojourn in the earthly city, a people whose lives are framed
by the hope of membership in the eternal city of God.
PQ: Some background in political/social theory useful.
Ident. PLSC 42000/FNDL 26200
DVSR 639 42700
Jung: Life, Thought and Times
Homans
In past years scholarship on
Jung has languished; it includes repetitive biographies or summaries
of theory based on the autobiography, and/or collected works, and/or
some letter, usually by Jungians, plus a well-established polemical
literature. Recently, a new literature on Jung has begin to emerge
which is professional (neither hagiographical nor polemical), scholarly,
and informative. This course centers upon earlier and recent studies
on Jung's life, his movement, his thought and the Swiss and European
cultures in which these were embedded. It also makes use of recent
studies of other psychologies, especially those of Freud and of his
followers, and of the national cultures in which these were embedded,
as points of comparison and approach.
Ident HUDV 42600/ SOSC 4260
DVSR 639 43000
Loss and the Study of Lives
Homans
This course explores the experience
of loss as it occurs both in the life-course of individuals and in
the collective life of groups, institutions, nations and even whole
civilizations. We will begin by reviewing existing studies of the
life-course as these have been developed in academic and therapeutic
(that is, psycho-dynamic) psychologies, often in relation to the writing
and reading of biographies and autobiographies. Then we will turn
to the more recent work on collective loss, mourning and memory, and
the ways in which whole societies represent their experiences of loss
and write their histories. Special attention will be given such topics
as creativity, forgetfulness and the struggle to re-create shared
meanings. Slide presentations will explore representations of loss
in 20th Century war memorials and Holocaust memorials.
Ident: HCHR 43000/HUDV 43000/ SOSC 43000
