Topic:Christian studies

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Contents 1 Departments 2 Learning projects and materials 2.1 Undergraduate 2.1.1 Elective 3 Resources

[edit] Departments

• Division of Christian Studies
  • Department of Biblical Studies — includes topics like Ancient Hebrew and the Book of Genesis and Hermeneutics
    • Center of Biblical Hermeneutics
    • Center of Biblical Languages
    • Center of Biblical Translation
    • Center of Biblical Survey
  • Department of Christian Apologetics — includes topics like a Defense of the Resurrection and Prophecies Fulfilled and the Inerrancy Project
  • Department of Historical Christian Theology — includes topics like the Ante-Nicene Fathers and the Nicene Creed and the Reformation
  • Department of Practical Christian Theology — includes topics like Preaching and Worship and Liturgy and Teaching Children
  • Department of Systematic Christian Theology — includes topics like the Trinity and Christology and Predestination and Divine Grace
  • Department of Traditional Christian Theology — includes topics that are relevant primarily to particular traditions
    • Center for Eastern Orthodox Studies — includes topics like Gregory Palamas and Theosis
    • Center for Roman Catholic Studies — includes topics like Pope Leo XIII and Thomism and Latin Rite Worship
    • Center for Reformational Studies — includes topics like Peter Waldo and Calvinism and the 1646 London Baptist Confession
    • Center for Restorational Studies — includes topics like Alexander Campbell and the Book of Mormon

[edit] Learning projects and materials

[edit] Undergraduate

• Jesus - The Jewish experience within the dominate Greco-Roman culture that spawned Christianity
• Paul - The Greco-Roman movement that adopted Jesus as the spiritual/mystical leader
• Pre-reformation - The experience of the Catholic Church before Martin Luther
• Post-reformation - Introduces the Protestant Movement, and looks at its interconnectedness and conflict with the Catholic Church
• Eastern-Orthodox - Chronicles the Church endorsed by the Eastern Roman Empire

[edit] Elective

• Biblical Studies (OT) - A look at modern secular scholarship towards the Hebrew Bible as a work of historical literature, and places it in context
• Biblical Studies (NT) - Secular scholarship on the Gospels through Revelation
• Christianity in the Roman Empire - Development after Paul until the collapse of the Western Empire
• Lost Christianities - Compares the four branches of early Christianity: the Proto-Orthodox, the Ebionites, the Marcionites, and the Christian Gnostics
• Evangelicism - Compares the Sacred views of the modern evangelical churches with the more orthodox Protestant churches and the Catholic church
• Mormonism - Views the Mormons within the context of Christianity, and looks at the "new" matters of faith introduced by the movement
• Creationism - The study of Creation versus Evolution
• Christian mysticism

[edit] Resources

• w: Universal Reconciliation
• w: Prewrath