University of Denver (Denver, CO) - Religious Studies (RLGS)

Religious Studies (RLGS)

Courses

RLGS 1101 Religious Lives: Jesus (4 Credits)

The title of this course has a two sided undertone. From one point of view, the title suggests our own is an examination of a religiously basic figure. Jesus is one such obvious personage. From this time forward his life is the object of study. The course title in like manner shows the records' character. They are "lives," "religious lives" of Jesus that rose out of describing social orders. In those associations, stories were examined and heard so anybody may listen, every now and again "performed" and balanced. Records are not "biographies" of Jesus, as we normally consider that kind. 

Perceive that in "telling the record of Jesus," the gospel writers were in like manner telling us their own one of a kind record bunches, encompassing stories that would affect how early Christians encountered their religious obligations to Jesus in a world formed by the forces as of late out of date Judaism and Greco-Roman government. 

We should take in the wake of alluring hints and achieve determinations from compositions - helpfully appeared differently in relation to the scripts of plays- - that were not fascinated, on a very basic level, in target, non-factional, chronicled depiction. Both Jesus and the records jolt our thought in this course. This course numbers toward the Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture essential. 

RLGS 2001 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion: Defining Religion (4 Credits) 

This course gives a recorded and speculative preamble to issues, engineers, and messages in the academic examination of religion. 

Subjects secured fuse the progression of religious studies as specific from Christian logic; complete request and issues within the request; and the examination of religions in association with race, class, and sexual introduction substances.

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