Key Questions

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The module examines key questions and turning points in theological thinking from Antiquity to Modernity. Beginning with the development of monotheism, the achievements in Christology in the ecumenical councils and the schism East and West. It will investigate biblical sources of the doctrine of God; outline the debates on imago Dei, free will and original sin in theological anthropology, compare models of salvation, and discuss theologies of history on theodicy and eschatology. New challenges to and responses from theology in relation to modernity's turn to subjectivity, critiques of religion (from philosophy and the social, medical and natural sciences), and the place of theology as a subject in the modern university will conclude the module.