This intermediate level course is designed to enable students to read the New Testament in Greek, concentrating on grammar and vocabulary building.
What does doing Ph.D. level scholarship look like? What does it involve? What types of research skills and techniques are required for doctoral-level academic study, and particularly, the study of religion in general and Interreligious relations in specific? This course will answer such questions, and more!
What is it like to present and defend an academic paper? What are the roles of the facilitator? how does writing a book review or assessing academic essays look like? How do professional scholars pursue their research presentation? How do I write and present my doctoral thesis proposal? This seminar will attend to such inquiries, and will continue to provide students with opportunities for collegial interaction by inviting them to witness professional scholars attending to paper-reading, book reviewing, essay’s assessing and proposal writing tasks before them in the seminar’s sessions
This course will analyze the basic foundations of hadith studies (ʿulūm al-ḥadīth) which are essential to a well-grounded understanding of this important field of Islamic Studies.
The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the earliest surviving accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus. This course will provide a detailed examination of these texts, paying special attention to the distinctive portrait of Jesus that each gospel presents.
Join us for guided tour of the historical development of the Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic scriptures.
This course offers a comprehensive survey of all the major dogmatic elements in the Christian confessions and theological discourses: the doctrine of revelation, the doctrine of God/Trinity, Christology, soteriology, Christian anthropology, pneumatology, hamartiology, ecclesiology, eschatology, etc.
This course will examine the human condition in light of God’s liberating activity.
This course explores the content and structure of Islamic belief, as elaborated by Muslim classical thinkers (7th-15th centuries), in relation to a selection of representative texts.
Theology—often defined as “faith seeking understanding”—is always informed by context: the particularities of the setting in which such understanding is sought. This course foregrounds situatedness as it facilitates exploration of multiple perspectives on Christianity’s core doctrines and its traditions of belief and practice.
