STMM 5310 - God in the Sacred: Encountering a New Cosmology

3 credit hours
This course explores the emerging core theological themes that arrive in the 21^st century’s current, golden age of discovery in astronomy, astrophysics, and the earth sciences. In like manner, the course highlights the concurrent responses in the debate between religion and science on these same theological themes. Attention is paid to the Christian and post-Christian (i.e., evolutionary spirituality) cosmological responses to the themes, and requires students to assemble their own cosmological self-understanding, which is essential to any deeper analysis in metaphysics, moral theology, and theological anthropology. The course includes journal assignments, two brief papers, and uses video technology for faculty lecture and other demonstrative formats. This is an online course at the School of Theology and Ministry, however all students are required to meet for one late evening in order to peer through the telescopic observatory on the top of Bannon Hall (Date to be Determined at start of course).

Terms Typically Offered: summer