W 2/10 Huston Smith, Ch. 3, "Buddhism," pp.90-115, The Religions of Man
Walpola, Rahula, What the Buddha Taught, Chs. 2-3, "Dukkha" and "The Arising
of Dukkha," p16-34
F 2/12 Huston Smith, pp. 115 top - 139, 153-58
Wapola Rahula, Chs. 4-5, "The Cessation of Dukkha," and "The Middle Path,"
pp. 35-45, 51-53
2/15 Daniel Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to
Christian Theology, Chs. 4-5, "The Truine God" and "The Good Creation,"
pp.56-98
--optional Movie: Kundun
2/17 Migliore, Ch. 7 "Humanity in the Image of God," pp.120-138
-Discussion: Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses of Buddhist and Christian
Views of the Self
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UNIT 1 The Historical Roots of the Western View, and the Modern Reactions Against IT.
F 2/19 Donald McKim, "What is Humanity: The Biblical Basis," in Theological
Turning Points, pp. 61-64.
David Kelsey, "Ch. 6, Human Being," in Hodgson and King, eds., Christian
Theology, pp. 167-78
M 2/22 McKim, "Turning Point: Pelagius and Augustine," in Turning Points, pp. 70-71.
N.D. Kelly, "Pelagius, "in Early Christian Doctrines, pp. 357-61.
Pelagius, "Letter to Demetrius," in Burns, Theological Antropology, pp. 39-55.
UNIT 2 -
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Bible in culture and community
Professor: http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/religion/faculty/stansell.html syllabus |
3/8 Take-home Exam on Preliminary Unit and Unit 1
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3/27-4/5 SPRING BREAK
WEEKS #8-10--Sin as Brokenheartedness exemplified in Recent Works in
Psychology and Autobiography
M 4/5--Easter Break, no class
6-7 page paper on Sin as Pride (Unit 2) (21%)
W Anthony Stevens, Jung: Past MAsters
F Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia, preface, Chs. 1-2
M 4/12 (continued) Pipher, pp. 49-57, 62-64, 67 bottom - 71, 96-99 middle;
and Ch. 8
Optional Movie: Hamlet
4/14 (continued) Pipher, pp. 86 bottom - 93 top; Ch. 9; pp. 232-33, 242-47,
251-59, 264-71, 281, 282-88 middle
4/16 Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Dance of Intimacy, Chs
. 2-4, pp. 10-51
M 4/19 Lerner, Chs. 6-8, pp. 70-12
W 4/21 Samuel Osherson, Fining OUr Fathers; How a Man's Life IS Shaped by HIs
Relationship with His Father, "Introduction: Men's Unfinished Business, "
Ch.1, "Unspoken Debts: Men's Struggle to Separate from Father," and
Ch. 6, "Fatherhood as a Helaing and Wounding Experience," pp. 3-51, 174-203
Pipher, Reviving Ophelia, pp. 115-16, 118-19 top
7 Page paper on Sin as Despair (28%)
4/23 Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets: A Memoir, pp. 1-56
Walter Wangerin Jr., Ch. 34, "Mary Magdalene," pp. 661-693, in The Book of
God: The Bible as a Novel
The Bible: John 4:1-5:15; Luke 4:31-44; 8:26-56; 13:20-17
Romans 7:14-8:11
Reread Pipher, Reviving Ophelia, pp. 254 middle - 258 top; 264-66 top; 268-71
UNIT 4 HUMAN REDEMPTIONL: TO LIVE BY THE GRACE OF GOD (THE PRODIGAL SON)
"It is genuinely human in the deepest sense to live by the electing grace of
God addressed to man This is how Jesu sChrist lives as the Son of Man."
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV/2 p. 89
WEEK #11-- "We Receive Our Being as a Gift"; Jesus Christ, a Life lived in a
world of Grace and an Offer of the Same for Us
M 4/26 The Bible, Luke 14:20-32 (The Prodigal Son, concl.)
Philip Yancey, Chs. 4-5, "Lovesick Father" and "The New MAth of Grace" in
What's So Amazing About Grace? pp. 45-72
Helmut Gollwitzer, Ch. IX, "Grace and Gratitude," pp. 154-173, in An
Introduction to to Protestant Theology
W Daniel Migliore, Ch. 8 "The Person and Work of Christ," and Ch. 9,
"The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life," pp. 145-47, 165-84. in Faith Seeking
Understanding
Gregory Love,"Jesus' Life in teh Power of the Spirit," Ch. 7.1, in The Role of
the Holy Spirit...pp/429-42
William Placher, Ch. 2, "The Eternal God," in Narratives of a Vulnerable God,
pp. 27-45
Bible: The temptation, Luke 4:1-12; Gethsemane, Mark 14:32-42
Film Clip: from "The Mission"
F Howard Thurman, "The sermon "Fear," pp. 36-57, in Jesus and the Disinherited
H. Richard Niebuhr, Ch. 6, "The Reconstruction of Faith," pp. 83-101, in
Faith on Earth
Week#12--To Live by the Grace of God: Life as Prayer
M 5/3
Ann and Barry Ulanov, Primary Speech: A psychology of Prayer, pp. 1-49
The Lord's Prayer
W Ulanov's, Primary Speech, pp. 51-62, 85-127
Optional Movie: The Horse Whisperer
Week#13 --Sin and Grace exemplified in Literature
F 5/7 Philip Yancey, Ch. 20,"Gravity and Grace," in What's so Amazing About
Grace?
News artricle USA TODAY: "The Geraldi Family: Loving 39 kids, All Disabled"
Either: Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, pp. 1-64
OR: Judith Guest, Ordinary People
M 5/10 Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, pp. 65-159
5/12 Barbaqra Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, pp. 160-232
Conclusion
6-7 page final paper on Human Redemption (Units2-4)
MY MAIN DIRECTORY