Religion

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

Associate Professor T. Baylor

Assistant Professors C. Mesick, J. Sampson

The department offers a religion major and one religion minor program. 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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