Resources
A 2012 course by Maxwell Johnson at the University of Notre Dame traces "the historical development of the liturgies and theological interpretations of Christian Initiation in East and West from the New Testament period to the modern period of ecumenical convergence."
A 2014 course by Donald LaSalle at the University of Notre Dame examines "the origins, evolution, and theological meaning of the the central feasts and seasons of what is called the liturgical or Church year."
A 2013 course by Kevin Livingston at Tyndale Seminary examines the "Biblical and theological foundations of worship."
A course by Dennis Beach at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University explores "theologies of liberation and philosophies of liberation--developed in the 20th century as practical an active rather than merely speculative ways to address problems of human oppression and unfreedom."
A 2011 course by Mark Lewis Taylor at Princeton Theological Seminary introduces the "theological structure and content" of Gutierrez's theology of liberation and related subjects.
A 2006 course taught by Dan Clanton at Doane College serves as "an introduction to the literature and history of the Second Temple Period in Judaism (539 B.C.E.-70 C.E.).
A 2001 course by Roy Furman and Jeffrey Carlson at DePaul University is "a critical consideration of the moral, religious and theological implications of Nazi Germanyâs "war against the Jews," the intentional and calculated destruction of some 6 million European Jews" through analysis of "the development of racial anti-Semitism and religious anti-Judaism."
A 2004 course by Annette Reed at McMaster University explores "classical Rabbinic biblical interpretation in its socio-historical, literary, and theological contexts. We will consider the emergence of a distinctively Rabbinic approach to exegesis and the development of literary forms for its expression, while also investigating the place of Torah in the ideology of Rabbinic Judaism and in the evolving self-conception of the Sage."
A course by Naomi Sokoloff at the University of Washington offers a "survey of modern Hebrew literature and its major developments in the past 100 years includes selections of fiction and poetry by a range of writers from Europe, Israel and the U.S."
A 1999 course by Eliezer Segal at the University of Calgary surveys "the main currents of modern Jewish thought and religious life, dealing with theological, literary and sociological topics."