Assessment

Class Preparation, Participation, and Presentation 30% Final Essay: 70%

Module Aims

The aim of this module is to familiarize students with a variety of contemporary issues or questions in systematic theology and to practice the art of analysing and evaluating the various theological positions on these issues.

Learning Outcomes

• — Enumerate and describe a set of contemporary theological issues/questions/debates.
• — To explain what the deeper issues at stake are in a particular question/debate.
• — Defend any position on a question, regardless of one’s personal opinion on the matter.

Bibliography

• — On Religious Pluralism (T. Tilley, G. D’Costa, and P. Schmidt-Leukel)
• — On the Church and sin (K. Rahner, Y. Congar, C. Journet)
• — On the Economic and Immanent Trinities (K. Rahner and Y. Congar)
• — On the local and unviersal Church (Ratzinger and Kasper)
• — On Universalism (Balthasar and Scheffczyk)
• — On Christ's Beatific Vision (White and Weinandy)