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THEO660 to THEO689
THEO660 Jesus the Christ 10 cp
Refer to THEO555 for details.
THEO661 Christian Life and Thought to 590CE 10 cp
Refer to THEO514 for details.
THEO662 Foundations in Liturgy 10 cp
Refer to THEO528 for details.
THEO663 Theology of Church 10 cp
Refer to THEO542 for details.
THEO664 Approaching World Religions 10 cp
Refer to THEO501 for details.
THEO667 Theology of the Human Person 10 cp
Refer to THEO556 for details.
THEO669 Ecclesiastical Latin A 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 involves a study of Ecclesiastical Latin through reading and translating original texts.
THEO670 Ecclesiastical Latin B 10 cp
Prerequisites THEO669 Ecclesiastical Latin A (or equivalent)
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit involves a study of Ecclesiastical Latin through reading and translating original texts.
THEO671 Biblical Hebrew A 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 involves a first study of Hebrew sounds, spelling and morphology.
THEO672 Biblical Hebrew B 10 cp
Prerequisites THEO671 Biblical Hebrew A (or its equivalent)
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
The unit involves a first study of Hebrew morphology and syntax.
THEO673 Christian Morality 10 cp
Refer to THEO507 for details.
THEO674 The Corinthian Correspondence 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 involves a detailed study of the text of 1 and 2 Corinthians with a view to understanding the nature and concerns of the church in Corinth and the theology and pastoral issues addressed from Paul contained in these letters. It also examines the social, religious and historical background of the Christian community in
THEO675 A Synoptic Gospel 10 cp
Prerequisites An introductory or undergraduate unit in Biblical Studies.
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit provides students with the opportunity for advanced study of either the Gospel of Matthew or the Gospel of Luke. The unit will examine the social, religious and historical contexts, the literary genre and narrative construction of the gospel, and its theological interpretation of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.
THEO677 Biblical Poetry 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online
This unit explores the literary characteristics of biblical poetry as a medium for expressing the spirituality of the poets in their time and context.
THEO679 Contextual Theologies 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 contemporary theologies of social critique. It explores the philosophical and sociological foundations of critical feminist, political and liberation theology and seeks to articulate how these are situated within contemporary Christian discourse. The principle of God’s identification with the poor and marginalised is explored in the scriptures, church teaching and contemporary theologies and attention is given to the critical engagement of the prophetic values of justice, mercy and peace. Political, liberation and feminist approaches to theology are investigated in terms of their claim to provide an effective hermeneutic of social transformation to enhance the contemporary communication of the Gospel.
THEO680 Theology of
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 various missionary theologies that have inspired Christian ministry and praxis throughout the Christian era. The biblical foundations and historical expressions of mission, especially in modern times, are reviewed. Official church documents focussing on inculturation and the Church's missionary vocation are studied. There is emphasis on the formulation of a theology of mission in the context of ecumenism, pluralism, secularisation, globalisation and other significant social movements.
THEO681 Theology, Literature and the Arts 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 a study the different ways in which literature and the arts give expression to the religious dimension of human experience. It examines how literature and the arts foster the search for truth, beauty and goodness in the midst of suffering, and critique society and inform a social conscience. Students will explore how various forms of literature and the arts relate to theology and consider conditions and contexts that favour a fruitful interaction between the art of theology and the literary, visual and expressive arts.
THEO682 Religion and Psychology 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 considers areas of contact between psychology and religion. It focuses on religious experience as interpreted from the perspective of different psychological theories (psychoanalytic, analytic, humanistic and transpersonal).
THEO683 Religious Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue 10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online. Teaching and learning strategies chosen from the following: lectures and tutorials; directed research and readings; experiential learning in class settings; interdependent learning group strategies; reflective practice by participants; guest lecturers representing 'other' traditions.
This unit introduces students to the field of religious pluralism with particular focus on Christian dialogue with major world religions. Indigenous and humanistic traditions may also be included. Theological issues and strategies for dialogue are explored. The goal of the unit is to formulate a coherent Christian theology of religious pluralism in the context of interfaith dialogue and post-modern sensibility towards the 'other'.
THEO684 Theology and Reconciliation 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 views the notion of reconciliation through a number of lenses. A scriptural overview of reconciliation is given. The unit also provides an overview of reconciliation in the teaching and practice of the Christian churches. Distinct processes of personal and social reconciliation are outlined. There is specific focus on reconciliation in the Australian context. Christian theologies and spiritualities of reconciliation are described in relation to strategies which promote the ministry of reconciliation. Finally, reconciliation is studied under its diverse liturgical forms.
THEO685 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 1 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 examine traditions of spiritual guidance, spiritual direction and spiritual companioning within Christianity. The study will include inquiry into models of spiritual discernment from biblical to contemporary times with special emphasis on each model’s theology, focus and process. A variety of traditions and types of prayer will be explored. Students will develop skills that assist them to evaluate critically these traditions and to understand how these foundations inform the ministry of spiritual direction.
THEO686 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 2 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 examine the theological foundations that influence the ministry of spiritual direction, as well as draw on the range of human sciences that inform an understanding of the human person and the human search for meaning. Students will be enabled to acquire skills that assist them in developing their own theology and ministry of spiritual direction.
THEO687 Spirituality, Ministry and Practice 1 10 cp
Prerequisites THEO685 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 1
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.
This unit integrates insights from the tradition and ministry of spiritual direction with the experience of companioning a directee. The unit introduces students to a number of groups with special needs in their spiritual journey. It examines issues of ethics in spiritual ministry and introduces students to individual and peer group supervision.
THEO688 Spirituality, Ministry and Practice 2 10 cp
Prerequisites THEO685 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 1, THEO687: Spirituality, Ministry and Practice 1
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online. This unit will include lectures, seminars, case studies, role plays, practical experience in spiritual direction, verbatims, individual and group supervision.
This unit draws together the foundations, history, theology and skills developed in the first three units with the experience of being a spiritual director. There will be a concentration on developing skills and personal resources in direction. A supervised experience at a retreat centre and direction with three directees will be central to the learning process.
THEO689 Science, Theology, Religion 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 unit explores the fundamental religious and theological questions arising from the challenges of the empirical sciences. To that purpose it addresses the following six sets of terms, singly, and taken together in larger connecting contexts; astronomy and the doctrine of creation; quantum physics and the nature of reality; evolution and continuing creation; genetics, neuroscience and human nature; the laws of nature and the activity of God; the promise of nature and eschatology. It also compares and contrasts the distinctive methods by which science, theology and religion arrive at their respective conclusions.
