Santa Clara University

Course to Consider for Fall 2013

SCTR 106: Person of Christ in the New Testament

MWF 10:30- 11:35 am

Professor Salvatore Tassone, SJ

Deals with Jesus' understanding of himself and his mission as well as the New Testament interpretation given to them. Different Christologies of the New Testament studied in order to show the unity and diversity in their interpretation of Christ.

(5 units)

Prerequisite: Intermediate level course (SCTR 20-99, TESP 20-99, or RSOC 20-99) or another course approved as fulfilling the intermediate level Core requirement in Religious Studies and completion of 88 quarter units.

Course to Consider for Summer 2013

TESP 124: Theology of Marriage

Sally Vance- Trembath

MWR 1- 3:10 pm Session One

MWR 3:20– 5:30 pm Session Two 

An examination of human relationships, intimacy, sexuality, and marriage through the social sciences, philosophy, and theology, and exploration of human love in the unconditional commitment to spouse as the expression of divine love. (5 units)

*Fulfills Paradigm Shifts & The Nature of Human Knowing Pathways*

Prerequisite: Intermediate level course (SCTR 20-99, TESP 20-99, or RSOC 20-99 or another course approved as fulfilling the intermediate level requirement in Religious Studies) and completion of 88 quarter units.

­­­The Anti-Cult Movement in America: Cult or Salvation?

Presenter: Professor James Bennett

When:  Tuessday, May 28 from 5:30PM - 7:00PM

Where: RS Lobby (Kenna 323)

Pizza and Drinks will  be provided!

This event is to bring together majors and minors, but please also bring interested friends!

We would like you to take the opportunity to pre-register for all religious studies courses. Please consult the course descriptions and tentative syllabus posted on the bulletin board at the third floor Kenna hallway by the Religious Studies Department. The pre-registration period is from Monday, April 29th to Monday, May 6th at 5 PM. Please contact your advisor for further information.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
2 - 4 pm
Mission Santa Clara de Asis on the SCU campus
Admission is free and open to the public.
 

Please join us at the annual celebration of "La Virgen del Tepeyac: The Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe" which will take place on Sunday, December 2, 2012 in the Mission Church.  All are invited to be a part of this celebration in drama, dance, and song that tells the story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The performance will be in Spanish with English commentary throughout. A reception will follow in the Willeman Room, Benson Center. This wonderful re-enactment is made possible through the collaboration of Teatro Corazon of Sacred Heart Parish and Santa Clara University students.

For more information, please contact Dr. Ana María Pineda, RSM at (408) 554-6958, Lulu Santana at (408) 554-4639, or Rosa Guerra-Sarabia at (408) 554-5011.

Catholicism, Politics, and The Primacy of Conscience: Reflections on Newman's 'Letter to The Duke of Norfolk'

David DeCosse, Santa Clara University

October 24, 2012 I 4-5:15 p.m.

St. Clare Room, Library and Learning Commons

Professor DeCosse will explore how understandings of conscience within the writings of the great 19th century English theologian John Henry Newman may be relevant to contemporary debates around Catholic conscience and freedom.
 

David D. Hall

Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History

Harvard Divinity School

Noon-1 p.m.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Kennedy Commons

The debate about the role of religion in the public sphere is hardly a new. While the 2012 election season has seen renewed debates about religion in public and political rhetoric, the challenge has persisted through nearly four hundred years of American history. Drawing on his most recent book, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England, (Knopf, 2011), Professor Hall will explore the radical position that puritans took on the question of religion in public life—a legacy that looms large today.

David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School, is a world-renown scholar of Puritanism and Seventeenth-Century New England and author of numerous books and articles on the intellectual and social worlds of Puritans and colonial New England, with a special focus on the idea “lived religion” in colonial America.

Kristin Heyer

Scriptural Politics of Immigration: Subversive Hospitality and Kinship

October 9, 2012 | 4:00 - 5:15 pm
St. Clare Room, Library and Learning Commons

The Hebrew and Christian scriptures are replete with examples of persons and families uprooted and migrating.  The sacred texts' injunctions about hospitality to strangers do not readily resolve complex questions about competing goods driving contemporary immigration debates.  Scriptures do have a key role to play in shaping our dispositions, imagination and moral reasoning. The lecture will explore the potential for scriptural narratives and themes to reveal migrant realities anew and inform an ethic of immigration.

Kristin Heyer holds the Bernard J. Hanley Chair in Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College in 2003.  Her research focuses on the ethics of immigration, Catholic political engagement, moral agency and Christian social ethics.  Her books include Kinship across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration (Georgetown University Press, 2012), Prophetic and Public: the Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (2006) and the edited volume Catholics and Politics: Dynamic Tensions between Faith and Power (2008). She serves as an editorial consultant for Theological Studies and as a member of the planning committee for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church.  She taught at Loyola Marymount University from 2003-2009 and joined the Santa Clara faculty in 2009.  She also serves as the 2012-2013 Community-based Learning Faculty Fellow in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara.