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THEO-1000-L11- Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 14834
Instructor: Hill-Fletcher, Jeannine
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, SL, THFR
THEO-1000-R21- Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: TWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 16546
Instructor: Maksimovic, Srdjan
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO-1000-V11- Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 16548
Instructor: Zenner, Christiana
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO-1000-V21- Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 15817
Instructor: Franklin, Antavius
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO-1000-V31- Faith and Critical Reason
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous
An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.
CRN: 15048
Instructor: Ellman, Barat
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: FRPT, REST, THFR
THEO-3310-R21- Early Christian Writings
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: TWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM
A selective study of the writing of prominent Christian theologians from Justin Martyr to Augustine, concentrating on early beliefs concerning God, Christ, the Church and the sacraments.
CRN: 15002
Instructor: Reynoso, Natalie
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: CLAS, MEST, MVST, MVTH, OCST, REST, STXT, THAM, THHC
THEO-3317-L21- Women of the Christian East
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
This Sacred Texts and Traditions course focuses on three overlapping but distinct aspects of women's religious life in Eastern Christian societies: (1) the theological framework by which (male) religious authorities understood gender difference, (2) the multiple forms of women's piety that were celebrated as holy, and (3) the real-life experience of Eastern Christian daughters, wives, nuns, deaconesses, and empresses. Throughout the course, we will examine authoritative texts central in the Orthodox Christian tradition—including Hebrew and Christian scriptures, Church Fathers, hagiography, and hymnography—as well as additional historical sources such as letters, imperial edicts, and works of art.
CRN: 16547
Instructor: Hampton, Dakota
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: OCST, PJGS, PJST, STXT, THAM, THHC
THEO-3375-V11- American Religious Texts and Traditions
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM
A critical and contextual reading of significant texts in American religious history, focusing on diverse traditions and the history of religious debate about American culture, social structures, and identity. Major themes may include: nationhood and religious identity, secularism, religion and violence, new religious movements, religious pluralism, religious rights and freedoms, church-state relations, psychology and religion, religious intersections with race and ethnicity, spirituality, religious histories of liberation and oppression, religion and sexuality, religion and gender, science and religion, colonialism, religion and economic practice. Students will encounter themes through a variety of primary source materials, applying and critically assessing different modes of analysis. Genres considered may include autobiography and memoir, political speech, fiction, poetry, sermons, legal documents, self-help literature, scriptures, manuals and pamphlets, as well as various types of film, television, social media, art, music, and material culture.
CRN: 15818
Instructor: Davis, Robert
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMCS, AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASRP, PLUR, REST, STXT, THAC, THHC
THEO-3711-V31- Sacred Texts of the Middle East
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous
This course introduces students to religious literature from the Middle East, broadly conceived. In the course, students will learn to analyze and contextualize texts from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as well as foundational texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism, including the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic writings, the New Testament and early Christian writings, the Qur'an and early Muslim writings. Special attention will be paid to the interactions of these traditions and communities as well as to their enduring legacies.
CRN: 15819
Instructor: Fiano, Emanuel
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: GLBL, HHPA, HUST, INST, ISME, JSTH, JWST, MEST, MVST, MVTH, OCST, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC
THEO-3715-V31- Classic Islamic Texts
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous
This course explores classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary texts of Islam, including the Quran, Hadith, and philosophical, historical, mystical, ritual, and legal texts.
CRN: 15054
Instructor: Kueny, Kathryn
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: GLBL, HHPA, HUST, INST, ISAS, ISFH, ISIN, ISME, MEST, MVST, MVTH, PJRJ, PJST, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC, WGSS
THEO-3724-V31- Classic Buddhist Texts
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous
This course is an in-depth study of the Buddhist textual tradition starting with the early sectarian canon in South Asia and progressing through Chinese Buddhism to Japan, with a strong emphasis on Zen Buddhism. We will explore these religious texts in terms of their historical, cultural and artist contexts.
CRN: 15055
Instructor: Schapiro, Joshua
3 credits
Fordham course attributes: CNST, GLBL, HHPA, HUST, INST, ISAS, REST, STSN, STXT, THHC
Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only.
Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).
Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.