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THEO 1000 L11 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced. This section of Faith and Critical Reason will explore the living religious diversity of New York City, with site visits to local congregations, houses of worship and museums.
CRN: 14834
Instructor: Hill Fletcher, Jeannine
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 1000 R11 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 14927
Instructor: Maksimovic, Srdjan
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 1000 L21 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 14892
Instructor: Parmach, Robert
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 1000 R21 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 15001
Instructor: Van Dyne, Benjamin
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 1000 V21 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 15032
Instructor: Reklis, Kathryn
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 1000 PW1 - Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 15048
Instructor: Garza, John
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO 3310 V11 - Early Christian Writings
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM
A selective study of the writing of prominent Christian theologians from Justin Martyr to Augustine, concentrating on early beliefs concerning God, Christ, the Church and the sacraments.
CRN: 14835
Instructor: Demacopoulos, George
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or THEO 1007 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401
Fordham course attributes: CLAS, MEST, MVST, MVTH, OCST, REST, STXT, THAM, THHC
THEO 3310 R21 - Early Christian Writings
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
A selective study of the writing of prominent Christian theologians from Justin Martyr to Augustine, concentrating on early beliefs concerning God, Christ, the Church, and the sacraments.
CRN: 15002
Instructor: Reynoso, Natalie
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or THEO 1007 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401
Fordham course attributes: RSEU, RSLU, RSRU, THEO
THEO 3371 V11 - American Transcendentalists
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
This course explores the spirituality and religious thoughts of the transcendentalists in the context of the 19th century liberal Protestant Christianity in the U.S. We will examine the influences of the transcendentalist movement (including Kant, German Romanticism, Indian Vedic traditions, and Swedenborg), read closely the most important works of it major figures (including Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and Fuller), and consider its influence on ecological spirituality, social progressivism, and post-religious spirituality in contemporary U.S. culture.
CRN: 14925
Instructor: Davis, Robert
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: AMST, ASRP, ENST, ESEJ, ESEL, STXT, THHC
THEO 3375 R11 - American Religious Texts and Traditions
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
A critical and contextual reading of significant texts in American religious history, focusing on diverse traditions and the history of religious debate about American culture, social structures, and identity. Major themes may include: nationhood and religious identity, secularism, religion and violence, new religious movements, religious pluralism, religious rights and freedoms, church-state relations, psychology and religion, religious intersections with race and ethnicity, spirituality, religious histories of liberation and oppression, religion and sexuality, religion and gender, science and religion, colonialism, religion and economic practice. Students will encounter themes through a variety of primary source materials, applying and critically assessing different modes of analysis. Genres considered may include autobiography and memoir, political speech, fiction, poetry, sermons, legal documents, self-help literature, scriptures, manuals and pamphlets, as well as various types of film, television, social media, art, music, and material culture.
CRN: 14821
Instructor: Seitz, John
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1007 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401 or THEO 1002 or THEO 1003 or THEO 1004 or THEO 1005
THEO 3610 L21 - Christ in World Cultures
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
At the center of the Christian tradition stands the person of Jesus Christ. Yet, from a global perspective, Christianity takes many forms in its many contexts. This course examines the ways in which the Christian faith interacts with diverse world cultures and asks the central question, how do cultural differences shape contemporary interpretations of Jesus as the Christ?
CRN: 14964
Instructor: Sangsoko, Nindyo
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1007 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1010 or HPRH 1001 or HPLC 1401
Fordham course attributes: AMCS, GLBL, INST, ISIN, LAHA, LALS, REST, STXT, THHC
THEO 3715 PW1 - Classic Islamic Texts
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous
This course explores classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary texts of Islam, including the Quran, Hadith, and philosophical, historical, mystical, ritual, and legal texts.
CRN: 15054
Instructor: Kueny, Kathryn
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1007 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401
Fordham course attributes: GLBL, HHPA, HUST, INST, ISAS, ISIN, ISME, MEST, MVST, MVTH, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC, WGSS
THEO 3724 PW1 - Classic Buddhist Texts
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous
This course is an in-depth study of the Buddhist textual tradition, starting with the early sectarian canon in South Asia and progressing through Chinese Buddhism to Japan, with a strong emphasis on Zen Buddhism. We will explore these religious texts in terms of their historical, cultural and artist contexts.
CRN: 15055
Instructor: Schapiro, Joshua
3 credits
Prerequisites: THEO 1000 or HPRH 1001 or THEO 1006 or THEO 1008 or THEO 1009 or THEO 1010 or HPLC 1401 or THEO 1007
Fordham course attributes: CNST, GLBL, HHPA, HUST, ISNT, ISAS, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC
THEO 4051 R11 - Religion and the Making of the Self
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
What is the nature of the self? Is the self made in God’s image or is it constructed and constantly negotiated through social interactions? And how do conceptions of the self inform our ethical choices? This course examines how religious perspectives on human nature shape the nature of the ethical life, focusing especially on the ways one’s first-personal experiences of selfhood pose an existential crisis of meaning. This is an interdisciplinary course that investigates conceptions of the self and their moral implications from multiple religious, philosophical, and sociocultural vantage points. The readings include materials from Greek and Hellenistic thought, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, phenomenology, existentialism, and cultural studies. The course’s point of departure is cross-cultural and thematic since we will explore the main themes concerning the meaning of the self in several religious and intellectual traditions. Topics include, inter alia, self-knowledge, the care and practices of the self, meditation, emotion and subjectivity, self-transcendence, and human flourishing. By navigating one’s way through the ethical dilemmas of selfhood faced by the modern (and postmodern) subject, this course explores the interrelationship between religious belief, self-formation, and morality.
CRN: 14822
Instructor: De La Fuente, David
4 credits
Fordham course attributes: EP4, VAL
Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only. Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).
Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.