THEO621 to THEO658
THEO621 Church Literature to Gregory the Great
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit explores the writings of the patristic era through an introduction to texts in translation. It examines the literary forms used and presents the 'fathers of the church' in their literary and spiritual framework. There will be an opportunity to focus on the work of specific writers.
THEO624 Theology Today
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
In the light of the history of theology, this unit treats challenges facing theology at the beginning of the 21st Century, and invites critical reflection on the developments that have occurred. It considers theological method in its efforts to relate theology to the Church, the university and to society at large. It pays special attention to various dialogical structures, as with theology in relation to science, interfaith communication, emancipation and liberation movements, art, spirituality and the ‘multicultural’ context of our day. Students are encouraged to focus on the work of one or other influential contemporary theologians (eg von Balthasar, Rahner, Pannenberg, Lonergan).
THEO625 Issues in Ecumenism
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. This unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit covers a wide range of topics that are seen to be important to contemporary ecumenism. It reviews some of the major theological issues that have arisen out of dialogues in recent years. The historical roots of some of these issues are included.
THEO626 Bible Lands Study Tour
20 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation This unit will be taught through preparatory lectures, field experience, briefing sessions, and on-site lectures.
This unit comprises a guided tour of lands of the Bible (any one or any combination of the following: Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece). It includes visits to archaeological sites and places of significance to Judaism and Christianity, and a study of selected biblical, Jewish, and early Christian texts.
THEO628 Introduction to Theological Research
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit provides an introductory preparation for students who wish to undertake specialised research in theology. Contemporary models and methodologies are surveyed; and theoretical and practical issues are considered in relation to particular theological disciplines. The unit assists students to define a research problem, conduct a literature review, and explore the appropriate design and methodology for their study.
THEO629 Issues in Liturgical Studies
10 cp
Prerequisites THEO662 Foundations in Liturgy
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on campus and online.
This unit follows on from the foundational liturgy unit, exploring a range of contemporary issues in the way that liturgy is mediated in liturgical performance.
THEO631 Issues in Systematic Theology
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit is intended to offer a variety of ways of engaging in systematic theology at the postgraduate level taking into account the interests and needs of the students and the expertise of the lecturer. Scope is given to choose the topic or topics to be studied from among the traditional main themes in Christian theology or to take the path of a particular theologian.
THEO632 Jews and Judaism
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit explores the contribution and place of the Jewish faith and the Jewish people in the contemporary world. It focuses on aspects of the history, beliefs and worship of Judaism, the presentation of Jews and Judaism in catechetical material and the current direction of Jewish-Christian dialogue.
THEO633 Special Study
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit enables some flexibility in the offering of elective units. It provides the possibility of offering a unit that meets the specific needs of students or which reflects the particular expertise of staff or a visiting scholar.
THEO636 Prophetic and Wisdom Literature
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit will introduce students to the heritage of a combination of the prophetic and wisdom traditions enshrined in the completed Old Testament. The basis of comparison will be a major prophetical book and a wisdom back in a study of the completed biblical books the post-exilic interpretation of pre-exilic prophetic or wisdom traditions will be examined.
THEO643 Women and the Church
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit explores the complex relationship between women and the growth and development of the Christian Church. It examines both the contributions made by women and the restrictions placed upon women within the Christian tradition with a particular focus on women’s participation in the life of the Christian story. It considers the challenges offered by key socio-cultural periods within the history of the Church and the impact these challenges have had on women’s identity and belonging within the ecclesial community. Current theological and ecclesial themes will be brought into dialogue with contemporary feminist theologies and critical feminist biblical scholarship in order to articulate new and authentic ways for women to ‘be Church’ in the twenty-first century.
THEO644 Religion, Ethics and Pluralism
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit examines the public role of religious traditions and Christianity in particular in contemporary liberal and pluralist societies. It focuses on the different relationships between secular ethics and religious ethics, and explores the ways in which religious narratives and religious perspectives can contribute to public debate.
THEO646 Issues in Ministry
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit examines the origins of Christian ministries with special attention to the New Testament writings. It includes an historical overview of the development of ministries leading up to a study of the nature and function of present day ministries. Issues such as the role of the ordained minister, lay ministers, women in the church, permanency and authority of ministers, will be examined in the light of church documents and theological opinion.
THEO647 Issues in Christian Ethics
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit covers a range of issues in the theory and practical of moral theology as a discipline within theology. While it does not assume a significant background in Christian ethics, it does assume that students have a solid background in theological reasoning and some familiarity with major issues in moral theology.
THEO648 History and Development of the Church
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit examines selected periods in the history of the Christian church from the pontificate of Gregory the Great to the present day. It focuses on those images and dimensions by which the church as sought to express an understanding of itself theologically, and which have been of special significance for subsequent generations. Students will be offered the possibility of concentrating on one or more of the periods listed below:
- the World of the Medieval Christian;
- the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation;
- the Age of Absolutism and the Rise of Secular Society;
- the French Revolution and the Modern World.
THEO649 Revelation and Tradition
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit develops the foundational concept of revelation as the divine self-disclosure through history. It considers the trinitarian structure of God’s self-revelation and its mediation through the living tradition of the Church as it is manifested in the scriptures, the sacraments, Church teaching and the development of doctrine, along with the many dimensions of Christian experience and reflection.
THEO650 Theological Perspectives of the Bible
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit provides a thematic approach to the canonical literature of the Hebrew and Christian traditions.
THEO651 Theology and Leadership
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit will investigate Christian leadership and the challenges it raises for Catholic ministry in a variety of institutional settings. The unit will describe the conflicting interests of charism and community building in the early church. It will then explore that same tension between charism and institution in the contemporary context.
THEO652 Theology and Society
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
The classic theme of the contribution which theology makes to social thought will be explored through the lens of critical theory. The unit will include the study of Christian social thought as public discourse. Consequently, those social themes often treated within the sociology of religion and the liberating movements within political theology are investigated. This unit aims to encourage the construction of a public theology.
THEO655 History of the Church in Australia
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit introduces students to the history of Christianity in Australia since European settlement. It examines the interplay of personalities, beliefs and associations in this history while presenting Christian denominations as institutions and faith communities, adjusting to life in a new land.
THEO656 Christian Spirituality
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This course is an introduction to spiritualities in the Christian tradition. Students will consider how an integration of predominant theological themes influence the way spiritualities occur through a study of Early Christian, Medieval and Contemporary spiritual classics. This will enable the student to develop an intellectual framework of understanding that will enable him/her to pursue the spiritual life and critique various views of spirituality.
THEO657 Practical Theology
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
A method of theological thinking that can guide the thought and action of the pastoral care giver in a variety of church and welfare contexts. The relation to praxis and action theories will be explored. The primary task of this course is to help the student convert a central question into a practical theological exercise.
THEO658 Foundations of Social Justice
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit is an exploration of the way in which ethics, primarily from the Christian perspective, acts as a guide, and exercises a critique in questions of contemporary social justice. The first part of the unit will focus upon social ethics, devoting special attention to the development of Christian social ethics, but also considering the ethical traditions of other major religions and secular ethics. Principles of social ethics will then be applied to a number of important social issues which face the pastoral worker in the rapidly changing context of the contemporary world.
Page last updated: 2017-06-29
Short url: https://handbook.acu.edu.au/62009
Page last updated: 2017-06-29
Short url: https://handbook.acu.edu.au/62009