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This course covers two subjects: Creeds, Confessions and the Mystery of God (RET4042A – for international students, instead of the former course The Experience of God) and Introduction to the Study of Protestant Theology (RETA4001 – for students of Protestant Theology).
The current public debate pays much attention to strategic communication and the need to have a positive collective identity narrative to strengthen resilience in times of danger. The course explores such narratives within Christianity, and their specific nature given by belief in an active communication between people and God. It traces the origins of creeds, their contents as well as their role for community building. It looks into Orthodox liturgical texts, Protestant confessional texts and Catholic conciliar texts, while investigating also the contributions of those traditions that emphasized the otherness of God. The final part of the course focuses on Modern and Postmodern manifestos, religious as well as cultural, their desires to build community in times of crisis, their strategies and beliefs. Lectures will be accompanied by seminar work in which the students will read extracts of ancient and modern texts, and interpret works of art. Poslední úprava: Noble Ivana, prof., Ph.D. (10.10.2024)
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Requirements: Reading of the given texts and an active course participation, one collective presentation, colloquy and a written essay. Students of the English Programme of Protestant Theology will have also an oral exam as part of the first year joint commission exam, that will include also Ivana Noble, Tracking God: An Ecumenical Fundamental Theology. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2010. The essays will work with the texts from the classes, plus one main author theme The length of the essay - c.2,500-3,000 words The essays need to be submitted at the end of the course, 12 January the latest. Poslední úprava: Noble Ivana, prof., Ph.D. (10.10.2024)
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Ivana Noble, Tracking God: An Ecumenical Fundamental Theology. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2010. Other literature is available on moodle course Creeds, Confessions and the Mystery of God - https://moodle.etf.cuni.cz/moodle/course/view.php?id=629 Poslední úprava: Noble Ivana, prof., Ph.D. (10.10.2024)
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2 October: Introduction: The Mystery of God and Different Versions of Common Identity Narratives 9 October: Shema Israel I: Gerhard Langer, “Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord Our God, the Lord is One” (Deut 6:4), Journal of Ancient Judaism 1 (2010), 215-226. 16 October: Shema Israel II: Howard Cooper, “’Hear o Israel’: ‘The Impossible Profession’ of Jewish Faith”, European Judaism 1:36(2003), 81-90. 23 October: Rule of Faith I: Introduction + Lawrence S. Cunningham, “The Rule of Faith”, in Lawrence S. Cunningham, An Introduction to Catholicism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 124-146. 30 October: Rule of Faith II: Mark J. Edwards, “The Creed”, in Kim YR, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2021, 135-157. 6 November: WORK IN GROUPS: Augsburg Confession, Helvetic Confessions, Tridentine Catholicism as a Confession, Anglicanism as a Confession, Confessiolnalisation of Orthodoxy · Lee Palmer Wandel - "The Story of the Reformation" 14 Dec 2017 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9AS_EcMNk0 13 November: Confessions II: Presentations 20 November: Lee Palmer Wandel, “Confessions”, in Lee Palmer Wandel, A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World, Leiden: Brill, 2011, 21-43. (27 November) DIFFERENT DATE – VISIT TO THE GALLERY OF MODERN ART 4 December: Manifestos I: 11 December: Manifestos II: 13-14 December - Weekend Seminar on the Council of Nicea, Theology of Christian Traditions, Jabok College, Salmovska 8) 18 December - Colloquy January: Work on seminar papers Poslední úprava: Noble Ivana, prof., Ph.D. (10.10.2024)
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Course in Moodle: https://moodle.etf.cuni.cz/moodle/course/view.php?id=629 Password to enrol: Creeds Poslední úprava: Noble Ivana, prof., Ph.D. (10.10.2024)
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