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BL512 Scripture’s Use of Scripture

The New Testament is fundamental to the development of Nicene Trinitarian doctrine. This course will focus on that forward movement- how the NT texts helped shape later conciliar Trinitarian  theology- as well as on the corresponding backward movement- how later...

TH505 Creation Calling

Creation is loved into being and sustained by the Triune God, who also has a glorious eschatological future for it. Human beings are called to keep it in ways that are consonant with God’s purposes, but instead, creation calls out in protest at having to bear the...

TH490 Credo

In this senior seminar, students will write a paper of approximately 25-35 pages in which they will give an account of their personal theology by articulating their beliefs concerning the central loci of Christian teaching, in conversation with their respective...

TH440 Christian Life and Ethics

This course explores how the theological vision of the Christian community expresses itself in specific intentions, practices, virtues, and actions and how Christian communities can grow in moral discernment. Both ethical theory as well as contemporary ethical issues...