CRN	14064	Distribution	C
Course No.	THEO / REL 123
Title	Religious Foundations of Western Civilization
Professor	Bruce Chilton / Jacob Neusner
Schedule	Tu Th 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 202

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CRN	14138	Distribution	A
Course No.	REL 268
Title	Quran: Listening, Reading, Viewing
Professor	Nerina Rustomji
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 305

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CRN	14140	Distribution	C
Course No.	REL 273
Title	Same-Sex Unions and Christianity
Professor	Paul Murray
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 203

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CRN	14024	Distribution	B
Course No.	LIT 3306
Title	Scholasticism vs. Humanism
Professor	Karen Sullivan
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC 118

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CRN	14080	Distribution	A/B
Course No.	PHIL / THEO 301
Title	Working Theologies: Søren Kierkegaard
Professor	Daniel Berthold / Nancy Leonard
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 310

Cross-listed: Philosophy

This seminar will explore some of the main paths taken by the Danish Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard towards theology. The seminar, limited to fifteen, is planned for students concentrating in theology as well as moderated philosophy majors and others interested in the subject. While Kierkegaard rejected the title of “theologian,” and called himself “essentially a poet” (or sometimes a “humorist”), his poetic experimentation -- even in the most apparently non-theological “aesthetic” works of many of his pseudonyms, and even in the many tracts written in the last five years of his authorship which together make up his Attack Upon Christendom -- was, in his words, “from first to last in the service of God.” We will commit ourselves to interrogating just what this service amounted to -- a commitment requiring our willingness to enter the labyrinth, since whatever else it was, Kierkegaard’s service to God was exquisitely complicated by his commitment to the authorial strategy of “indirect communication,” a mode of discourse marked by disguise, hidden intentions, the proliferation of competing voices, and what he called “the disappearance of the author.” Readings will be drawn from such pseudonymous works as Either / Or (Victor Eremita), Repetition (Constantine Constantius), Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio), Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Johann Climacus), Training in Christianity and The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus), as well as some of the sermons or “Edifying Discourses” written under Kierkegaard’s own name. We will also read a variety of writers who have engaged Kierkegaard’s authorship in ways central to the several projects of modernity and postmodernity, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Sylviane Agacinski (and other feminist commentators). Students should speak with Professor Berthold or Professor Leonard about their interest in the course in the week prior to registration. We will post a list of students accepted into the course by 10:30 on the morning of registration.