"This never happened at my old school..."
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kitewithfishSo right you are, Phoebe, so right you are.
I just got a notice that one of my classes for next quarter was canceled. I'm presuming due to low enrollment- the only other person I found in the class informed me a few weeks ago that it looked like there would only be four people in the class. Which was exactly how many people were in my Greek class at Swelles, which should have gotten canceled and never did.
What I'm signed up for:
THEO 43700 Theology and Philosophy *
Gamwell, Franklin
T/Th 1:30-2:50 S200
What is the role of philosophy in the task of Christian theology? Attention will be given to some alternative answers (for instance, Anselm, Aquinas, Tillich, Ogden, Frei). Students will be asked to develop a critical reading of a recent or contemporary theologian or philosopher, with the intention to move thereby toward a constructive statement.
Ident. DVPR 43700
THEO 49501 Theology and Theory I: Political Theology
Tanner, Kathryn
W 1:30-4:20 S403
This course investigates the recent upsurge of interest in political theology among political and critical theorists. Readings to include Agamben, Schmitt, Laclau, Lefort, Nancy, Banjamin, Adorno and Zizek.
Possible Replacements
HCHR 42600 The American Religious Historical Canon
Brekus, Catherine
M 9:30-12:20 S400
-Consent of instructor required.-
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 narratives have changed over time. Students are required to lead class discussion once during the quarter and to write one 20-25 page paper.
Ident. HIST 63800
CHRM 43000 Dying in the Modern World
Boyd, Kevin/Koogler, Tracy
TH 3:00-5:50 S106
-Interesting but full, also might not be able to get permission to take the course.-
How do we define death? How do we as persons and professionals respond to the dying? What are our obligations as professionals to the dying and to the grieving loved ones they leave behind? This will be an interdisciplinary class team taught by faculty from the Divinity School and the Medical School that will draw students from both schools. Our central focus will be the experience of death and dying in the modern world from philosophical, clinical, sociological, and religious perspectives. We will explore the ways these different understandings compliment one another, as well as the points where they come into potential conflict, all in the attempt to foster a richer dialogue around death and dying between various professional caregivers.
Ident. PEDS 43000
HIJD 40901 Contemporary European Philosophy and Religion *
Davidson, Arnold
Tu/Th 10:30-11:20 ARR
-This still has a small number of spaces in it. Lecture and discussion group. This would also cover the gap about philosophy in my education.-
In the first part of this course we will consider Martin Heidegger's critique of humanism and various attempts, both explicit and implicit, especially in contemporary French philosophy, to formulate alternative versions of humanism. We will study Emmanuel Levinas' conception of ethics as first philosophy and its effect on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, Jacques Derrida's politics of hospitality and cosmopolitanism, and Pierre hadot's conception of spiritual exercises and philosophy as a way of life. In the second part of this course, we will discuss the status of ethical, political, and religious concepts (and especially those concepts linked to the ideals of humanism) after the experience of Auschwitz. How should such an event affect the articulation of these concepts? The main text for this part of the course will be Primo Levi's If This is a Man (translated into English with the misleading title Survival in Auschwitz). Other readings may come from Levinas, Robert Antelme, Sara Kofman and Hans Jonas. Although all texts will be read in English, the ability to read the texts in the original languages is an advantage.
Ident. DVPR 40900/PHIL 21200/31209/CMLT 21201/31201
BIBL 32500 Introduction to the New Testament: Texts and Contexts *
Mitchell, Margaret
T/Th 10:30-11:50 S106
-This course is going to be huge, and thus probably not require a whole slew of writing. It might be a good course for getting background on the texts themselves.
An immersion in the texts of the New Testament with the following goals: 1. Through careful reading to come to know well some representative pieces of this literature; 2. To gain useful knowledge of the historical, geographic, social, religious, cultural and political contexts of these texts and the events they relate; 3. To learn the major literary genres represented in the canon ("gospels," "acts," " letters," and "apocalypses") and strategies for reading them; 4. To comprehend the various theological visions to which these texts give expression; 6. To raise questions for further study.
Discussion groups will meet on Fridays, 12:00-1:00 in S201 and S208.
Ident. RLST 12000/FNDL 28202/NTEC 32500
I just got a notice that one of my classes for next quarter was canceled. I'm presuming due to low enrollment- the only other person I found in the class informed me a few weeks ago that it looked like there would only be four people in the class. Which was exactly how many people were in my Greek class at Swelles, which should have gotten canceled and never did.
What I'm signed up for:
THEO 43700 Theology and Philosophy *
Gamwell, Franklin
T/Th 1:30-2:50 S200
What is the role of philosophy in the task of Christian theology? Attention will be given to some alternative answers (for instance, Anselm, Aquinas, Tillich, Ogden, Frei). Students will be asked to develop a critical reading of a recent or contemporary theologian or philosopher, with the intention to move thereby toward a constructive statement.
Ident. DVPR 43700
THEO 49501 Theology and Theory I: Political Theology
Tanner, Kathryn
W 1:30-4:20 S403
This course investigates the recent upsurge of interest in political theology among political and critical theorists. Readings to include Agamben, Schmitt, Laclau, Lefort, Nancy, Banjamin, Adorno and Zizek.
Possible Replacements
HCHR 42600 The American Religious Historical Canon
Brekus, Catherine
M 9:30-12:20 S400
-Consent of instructor required.-
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 narratives have changed over time. Students are required to lead class discussion once during the quarter and to write one 20-25 page paper.
Ident. HIST 63800
CHRM 43000 Dying in the Modern World
Boyd, Kevin/Koogler, Tracy
TH 3:00-5:50 S106
-Interesting but full, also might not be able to get permission to take the course.-
How do we define death? How do we as persons and professionals respond to the dying? What are our obligations as professionals to the dying and to the grieving loved ones they leave behind? This will be an interdisciplinary class team taught by faculty from the Divinity School and the Medical School that will draw students from both schools. Our central focus will be the experience of death and dying in the modern world from philosophical, clinical, sociological, and religious perspectives. We will explore the ways these different understandings compliment one another, as well as the points where they come into potential conflict, all in the attempt to foster a richer dialogue around death and dying between various professional caregivers.
Ident. PEDS 43000
HIJD 40901 Contemporary European Philosophy and Religion *
Davidson, Arnold
Tu/Th 10:30-11:20 ARR
-This still has a small number of spaces in it. Lecture and discussion group. This would also cover the gap about philosophy in my education.-
In the first part of this course we will consider Martin Heidegger's critique of humanism and various attempts, both explicit and implicit, especially in contemporary French philosophy, to formulate alternative versions of humanism. We will study Emmanuel Levinas' conception of ethics as first philosophy and its effect on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, Jacques Derrida's politics of hospitality and cosmopolitanism, and Pierre hadot's conception of spiritual exercises and philosophy as a way of life. In the second part of this course, we will discuss the status of ethical, political, and religious concepts (and especially those concepts linked to the ideals of humanism) after the experience of Auschwitz. How should such an event affect the articulation of these concepts? The main text for this part of the course will be Primo Levi's If This is a Man (translated into English with the misleading title Survival in Auschwitz). Other readings may come from Levinas, Robert Antelme, Sara Kofman and Hans Jonas. Although all texts will be read in English, the ability to read the texts in the original languages is an advantage.
Ident. DVPR 40900/PHIL 21200/31209/CMLT 21201/31201
BIBL 32500 Introduction to the New Testament: Texts and Contexts *
Mitchell, Margaret
T/Th 10:30-11:50 S106
-This course is going to be huge, and thus probably not require a whole slew of writing. It might be a good course for getting background on the texts themselves.
An immersion in the texts of the New Testament with the following goals: 1. Through careful reading to come to know well some representative pieces of this literature; 2. To gain useful knowledge of the historical, geographic, social, religious, cultural and political contexts of these texts and the events they relate; 3. To learn the major literary genres represented in the canon ("gospels," "acts," " letters," and "apocalypses") and strategies for reading them; 4. To comprehend the various theological visions to which these texts give expression; 6. To raise questions for further study.
Discussion groups will meet on Fridays, 12:00-1:00 in S201 and S208.
Ident. RLST 12000/FNDL 28202/NTEC 32500
