This course, taught by Jeremy W. Blackwood at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, is a philosophical examination of the human person. Its particular topics include: the mind-body problem, personal identity, free will, and the human search for meaning. Special attention is given to contemporary challenges to Christian views
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Philosophical Anthropology
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Biomedical Ethics
This course, taught by James W. Stroud at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, examines biomedical ethics from a Catholic theological perspective with attention to its main principles and concepts. It considers select beginning of life and end of life issues that focus on contemporary challenges for Catholic health
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Trinity and Creation
This course, taught by Jeremy Blackwood at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, introduces the student to the vast heritage of the Judeo-Christian experience of, and reflection on, God and creation. It treats of the principle conceptions of God as found in the Bible and in magisterial documents, as
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Fundamental Theology
This course, taught by Steven Shippee at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, introduces the fundamental issues and categories of the science of theology and its methodology. It includes a consideration of divine revelation, the virtue of faith, the development of doctrine, and the nature of magisterial authority. Course
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The Catholic Church in America
Following the Program of Priestly Formation (5th ed., §210), this course, taught by Paul G. Monson at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, examines “America” as a hemispheric reality and charts the development of the Church in the United States from its colonial roots to its most recent immigrant
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History of Church Universal II
This course, taught by Paul G. Monson at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, realizes the Program of Priestly Formation’s vision that graduate seminaries should include “courses on the history of the Church universal” that further emphasize her “multicultural origins,” her “ecumenical context,” and the “lives of [her] saints”
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