Jews,Christians&MuslimsInteracting (INDS 7015)

Term: Academic Year 2019-2020 Fall

Faculty

	James C. SkedrosShow MyInfo popup for James C. Skedros
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	Rev. Dr. Emmanuel ClapsisShow MyInfo popup for Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis
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Schedule

Mon, 2:10 PM - 4:30 PM (8/26/2019 - 12/18/2019) Location: MAIN CLASS 221

Description

An inter-religious seminar bringing together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim students to interact, share, learn, and engage theologically on fundamental theological topics important to all three religious traditions. The course will be broken up into three overarching modules: Sacred Scriptures, The Divine, and Humanity. The module on Sacred Scriptures focuses on the relation between revelation and scriptures, views on scriptural inspiration, sacred languages and their role today in conveying the scriptural message, and scriptures and traditions. The module on the Divine (including worship) focuses on God's essence and attributes (love, power, creation, and judgement), God's court, God's plan for creation and humanity, and encountering God in worship. The final module, Humanity (that is, anthropology, which will include ethics and ecology), examines the genesis of humanity and its place in God's creation (ecology), God-humanity relationship, and human freedom (rights and responsinilities