THEO-297 Senior Seminar: Religious Pluralism

Faculty:

Madigan, Daniel

Ruf, Frederick

This course will study the relationship between Christianity and other major world religions. Offered from the Christian perspective, it will address the philosophical and theological issues and conflicts that arise in a religiously pluralistic environment. This will include an historical examination of the Christian disposition towards the other religions, the problem of conflicting truth claims, the nature of salvation in the religions, the role of religious language, and the process of interreligious dialogue. The course will critically assess current Christian theological thinking about the other major traditions and offer possibilities for interreligious understanding. (Madigan)

This seminar for senior theology majors in the Religion and Culture track will study the contemporary issue of "pluralism,” that is, how we are to think of and respond to a plurality of religious claims and experiences. This particular section of the seminar will concentrate on theories of plurality and otherness that are not from the explicitly theological tradition, and on instances of the encounter with religious otherness that are not explicitly religious. This semester we will examine the theories of William James, Richard Rorty, and Michel Foucault, and we will then apply them to a variety of films. (Ruf)

Credits: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

THEO-297-01 Senior Seminar: Religious Pluralism

Faculty:

Murphy, Joseph

This seminar for senior theology majors in the Religion and Culture track will study the contemporary issue of "pluralism" among religions, that is, how is each to assess the validity, meaning and efficacy of other religions? The course will consider the theological and practical issues that arise in the currently widespread practice of "dialogue." Clearly this issue affects cultures (such as Western culture) as well as religions.

Credits: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Other academic years
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• 2004-2005 Fall and Spring
• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
• 2006-2007 Fall and Spring
• 2007-2008 Fall and Spring
• 2008-2009 Fall and Spring
• 2010-2011 Fall and Spring
• 2011-2012 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring
• 2013-2014 Fall and Spring

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