THEOLOGY

CRN

10199

Distribution

A

Course No.

THEO/LIT 201

Title

Working Theologies

Professor

Paul Murray/Robert Kelly

Schedule

Mon Wed 10:30 am - 11:50 am OLIN 307

Cross-listed: Religion, Literature

How do theological ideas appear as practices of life and writing? What are the characteristics of written texts that seem intentionally or otherwise to become sacred texts? Can the act of writing itself constitute a species of revelation, and what might make such revelation authentic? The course accommodates an exploration of the theological reflections of contributors from differing religious perspectives and in varying idioms of discourse. We will try to engage the texts of such people as Meister Eckardt, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Buber, C.S. Lewis, D.H.Lawrence, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Chung Hyun Kyung, The Dalai Lama, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Desmond Tutu.