Key social documents
The Specifically Christian Understanding of God as Triune
"Abrahamic" Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
"Dharmic" Religions: Hinduism, Jainsm, Buddhism and Sikhism
A developing ecclesiology: the Ecclesiology of Communion
A new beginning for a Gospel: the infancy narrative
A Succession of Empires: Geography and History of the Biblical World
A World within Worlds: the Bible and its surrounding Cultures
Aspects of secular thought and religion will be outlined.
Beyond Words: Prayer and Silence - meditation, contemplation, and the 'Language' of God'
Bible and Morality
Bible Came to BE: the Biblical Cannon and its Importance How
Bioethics and the civil law
Body and Heart: the Human Person in a biblical perspective
Characteristics of Ministry exemplified in Jesus.
Christ, Covenant, Sin and Conversion
Christian Vocation of Discipleship.
Church and its relationship to the Kingdom.
Communion and Mission.
Contemporary approaches to religious education
Contemporary issues facing the faith-filled celebration of the sacraments today
Critique of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)
Current Questions in Christology
Defining religion
Discourses and Beatitudes
Divine Revelation
Ecology
Ecology
Enduring to the End: the energy and hope to persevere in prayer
Euthanasia and the right to die
Exploring Revelation and its Transmission in Scripture and Tradition
Exploring the Biblical Foundations for Spirituality
Faith and Reason
Faith development in the secondary school
Group reflective practice on pastoral situations.
Human Experience and the Experience of God
Integrating Theology, Morality and Spirituality
Interpretation of the 19th century experience of the Catholic Church.
Istigh linn féin - habitare secum (dwelling with oneself - St Gregory the Great): prayer and the discovery of our true selves;
Jesus and the Trinity
Jesus: a person of prayer and master of prayer;
Key social documents
Laudato Si and religious education for environmental awareness
Leadership in Christian community and the practices of ministry.
Learn then the Parable? (Gen 24:32): the Dynamics and Power of OT and NT Parables
Magisterium, leadership and roles in the Church.
Matthew among the Synoptic Gospels
Matthew's characters: God, Jesus , Disciples and Sinners
Ministry and Processes of a Parish Pastoral Council.
Miracles in the Gospel of Matthew
Models of Church.
Ordinary and extraordinary medical treatments
Parables and Riddles of the Kingdom
Parish and the pastoral activity of the Church.
Philosophical theological responses to secular thinking will be considered.
Prayer - a quest for the living God
Prayer - a response to the realities of life: the Psalms as a school of prayer;
Prayer and Sacramental Life
Psalms: Original Contexts and Christian Rereading
Religions of East Asia
Reproductive technologies
Rite and ritual: a secular-belief/sociological assessment of the sacraments
Sacred and profane: Identity, Worship and Law in the Ancient near East Sacred and profane: Identity
Scripture and Lection: The proclaimed Bible of the Synagogue and the Churches
Spirituality and its Contribution to Human Development
Spirituality and the reflective practitioner in the classroom
Spirituality for a Post Modern World.
Spirituality for Everyday life
Taking Incarnation Seriously: embodied prayer;
The Abraham Story: Call, Covenant and Akedah
The birth of the 'Jesus Movment'
The Book of Job: The Problem of Suffering
The central principles of Catholic Social Teaching such as justice, common good, preferential option for the poor, subsidiarity
The central principles of Catholic Social Teaching such as justice, common good, preferential option for the poor, subsidiarity
The Centrality of Relationships
The Christian God
The Christological Councils
The Councils of Jerusalem and Nicaea
The David Story: Anointing, Covenant, Sin and Forgiveness
The Doctrines of Creation, Incarnation, and Redemption
The expansion of Christianity in the early centuries
The fundamental principles of bioethics
The Holy Spirit: the life and the power of all prayer
The Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate Religious Education programmes
The Marian and Petrine Principles of the Church
The Moses Story 1: Call, Revelation of the Divine Name and Passover
The Moses Story 2: Exodus, Decalogue and Covenant
The Mystery of Jesus Christ
The nature of catechesis
The Origin of the Church.
The Passion Narrative
The philosophical issues which arise within the contemporary 'God debate' in connection with the theory of Evolution and theories concerning the make-up and origins of the universe
The philosophical problem of evil will be examined as it presents a major challenge to belief in an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good God.
The principles of Catholic sacramental theology.
The production and use of embryonic stem cells
The Prophetic Legacy 1: Amos and Justice
The Prophetic Legacy 2: Isaiah and Hopes for the Davidic Line
The Prophetic Legacy 3: Jeremiah and the Fall of Jerusalem
The Prophetic Legacy 4: Second-Isaiah and the Figure of the Servant
The Quest for Authenticity
The Reformation and Counter Reformation in Ireland
The role of the arts in religious education
The role of women in church and society
The role of women in church and society
the scriptural foundations of Christian liturgy
The Scriptures - a sacrament of the Word of God;
The Word of God: approaches and models;
Theological Anthropology: The Christian Vision of Humanity
Theology and Church
Theology of God
Thus says the Lord. . . : Seers and Prophets, Visions and Justice in the Bible
To acquaint students with contemporary issues in Christology
To explore the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the nucleus of New Testament Christology
To identify key features of revelation in the Old and New Testaments and in the tradition, culminating in the Vatican II document, Dei Verbum
To introduce students to the theology of divine revelation and faithd
To introduce students to traditional and contemporary issues relating to discours about God
To present the history of Christology through the Councils of the first millennium
To tease out the implications of Christ as the fullness of revelation
Towards a Christian Understanding of the Person
Trace secular thinking from the 19th century to Post-modernism.
Twenty-First Century questions to First Century Gospels
Who's Who in the Bible an Introduction to the Key Characters in the Bible
Why did Sarah laugh? (Gen 18:3): Appreciating Biblical Narrative and its Art
World Religions - a useful paradigm or not?
Worlds: the Bible and it's surrounding Cultures A World within
