Previous Years' Course Catalogues

This seminar examines the scholastic approach to the history of philosophy exemplified by Etienne Gilson against the background of its foundation in the thought of Aristotle as it was appropriated by Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. It examines the role that philosophy or theology's history plays in the conceptual constructions of scholastic thinkers, and what they think is truly first and deepest in the history they so study.

This course will examine techniques and strategies used for reading Old Testament narratives through history. Special attention will be given to interpretations of the following bad boys and bad girls: Adam and Eve; Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar; Dinah; Rahab; Deborah, Sisera and Jael; Jephthah and his daughter; Samson and Delilah; the Levite and his concubine; David and his family members. We will ask questions about how to read and interpret texts in the church today.

This course will examine techniques and strategies used for reading Old Testament narratives through history. Special attention will be given to interpretations of the following bad boys and bad girls: Adam and Eve; Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar; Dinah; Rahab; Deborah, Sisera and Jael; Jephthah and his daughter; Samson and Delilah; the Levite and his concubine; David and his family members. We will ask questions about how to read and interpret texts in the church today.

This course examines the human person through an exploration of diverse interlocutors that break open the emerging field of theology and anthropology for societies and the academia today. The course first considers the valuable recourse that anthropology is for the study of the human person within the discipline of theology. Whilst exploring significant positions in any theological account of the human person, such as the image of God, to that of human nature and the natural law, the course also contextualizes a theology of the human person with respect to specific cultural circumstances and conditions of our present time. Thus, the course will also explore a theology of the human person in ways that takes seriously community, race, gender, families, and emerging calls to decolonialize theology with the Roman Catholic Tradition.

Theological perspectives and spiritual practices for integrating faith and the work for justice, peace and a healthy environment.

Theological perspectives and spiritual practices for integrating faith and the work for justice, peace and a healthy environment. Evaluation by essay.

Theological perspectives and spiritual practices for integrating faith and the work for justice, peace and a healthy environment.

Theological perspectives and spiritual practices for integrating faith and the work for justice, peace and a healthy environment.

Approximately 300 million Eastern Christians world-wide have a rich - as well as challenging - history of engagements with believers of other faith traditions. The same Western countries that have experienced a significant rise in Eastern Christian populations during the last several decades have also been home to millions of non-Christians for centuries, or, in the case of indigenous faiths, for millennia. The need to explore and analyze particularities of the interaction between these traditions in pluralistic and multicultural Western environments is imperative.

Ignatius of Loyola wanted Jesuits to be "contemplatives in action". This describes the desire of many Christians today and the imperatives thrust upon us to be at once boned with God and with our fellow travellers. Reading in Loyola Zizioulas, J Macmurray, early Christian and contemporary theologians and mystics. NT accounts of prayer and action in Jesus of Nazareth. 

Ignatius of Loyola wanted Jesuits to be "contemplatives in action". This describes the desire of many Christians today and the imperatives thrust upon us to be at once boned with God and with our fellow travellers. Reading in Loyola Zizioulas, J Macmurray, early Christian and contemporary theologians and mystics. NT accounts of prayer and action in Jesus of Nazareth. 10-12 page essay.

Ignatius of Loyola wanted Jesuits to be "contemplatives in action". This describes the desire of many Christians today and the imperatives thrust upon us to be at once boned with God and with our fellow travellers. Reading in Loyola Zizioulas, J Macmurray, early Christian and contemporary theologians and mystics. NT accounts of prayer and action in Jesus of Nazareth.