Religion

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Professors D. Harlow, W. Lee (chair), M. Lundberg, L. Smit, R. Whitekettle

Associate Professor T. Baylor

Assistant Professors C. Mesick, J. Sampson

The department offers a religion major and two minor programs: a religion minor and a secondary education religion minor. Interdisciplinary majors in religion and other fields may be designed according to guidelines in the catalog section Academic Policies and Standards (see Programs of Concentration ). A departmental advisor will help design these programs according to a student’s specific interests. 

Programs

• Religion Major

• Religion Minor

Courses

• REL 121 - Biblical Literature and Theology
• REL 131 - Christian Theology

• REL 211 - From Creation to Promised Land
• REL 212 - From Conquest to Exile
• REL 213 - Psalms and Wisdom Literature
• REL 214 - Prophets
• REL 221 - Jesus in the Gospels and Acts
• REL 222 - The Gospel and Letters of John
• REL 223 - Paul’s Letters
• REL 224 - Revelation and General Letters

• REL 230 - Revelation and Knowledge of God
• REL 231 - The Triune God
• REL 232 - Creation and Humanity
• REL 233 - Christ and Reconciliation
• REL 234 - Holy Spirit and Church
• REL 235 - The Christian Hope
• REL 237 - Christian Worship
• REL 243 - Theology: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages
• REL 244 - Theology: From the Reformation to the Present
• REL 251 - Christianity and Religious Plurality

• REL 255 - World Religions
• REL 261 - Christianity and Culture
• REL 262 - Social Justice from the Prophets to Jesus
• REL 263 - Theology, Beauty, and the Arts
• REL 352 - Judaism
• REL 353 - Islam
• REL 355 - Buddhism
• REL 356 - Confucianism

• REL 309 - Studies in Biblical Theology
• REL 311 - History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel
• REL 321 - Judaism in the Time of Jesus
• REL 323 - Studies in Christian Origins
• REL 332 - Theological Ethics
• REL 341 - Studies in Early and Medieval Theology: Medieval Scholastic Theology
• REL 345 - Studies in Contemporary Theology
• REL 383 - External Practicum

• REL 396 - Religion Seminar

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