Theology Summer Courses

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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.

CLOSED

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.

CLOSED

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.

CLOSED

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.

CLOSED

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.

CANCELED

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.

CLOSED

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.

CLOSED

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.

CANCELED

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.