The Christian Theological Tradition II

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course will examine the development of the Christian tradition from the time of the Reformation to the present (to Vatican II, maybe?). Particular topics from which instructors will choose to focus this journey include: the confessional division of the western Christian tradition during the Reformation and the responses that post-Reformation traditions make to the secularization of Western culture (reflected in many Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophies, in the rise of modern science, and in the increasing secularization of politics in the modern nation state). The objective of the course is to develop a sense of the principal challenges and some of the diverse responses to those challenges that have shaped the on-going theological reflection of the church.