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Further information
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone:
01 896 1297, email:
Introduction to Theology
Part 1: The history of theology
The first part of this two-term course offers a
historical and systematic analysis of the
philosophical and theological developments
within Christian theology from the Patristic
period, especially St Augustine, through the
Middle Ages (St Thomas Aquinas) to the
Reformation (Martin Luther) and the dissolution
of the medieval synthesis. It further traces the
philosophical, scientific and theological
movements leading to the Enlightenment and
the development of deism in Britain (Newton,
Cherbury, Locke, Hume), in France (Voltaire
and Rousseau) and in Germany (Leibniz, Wolff,
Kant).
Part 2: Issues in theology
After sketching the transition in Western
scientific, philosophical, theological and cultural
discourse in part one, the second part of the
course traces the new developments from the
Enlightenment through the rise of atheism in
eighteenth-century France and Germany to the
inception of modern Protestant theology in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the
Roman Catholic theological revival and
suppression during the same period. The
course also treats the modern critique of
religion by Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and
Freud. Finally it examines the retrieval of
experience as the central locus of theology
(second half of the twentieth century) and
compares this with the linguistic and cultural
approach to religion.
Lecturer
Cathriona Russell
How to apply
Applications can be made in person
on Wednesday, 19 September 2012,
4 p.m. - 7 p.m. in the Department of Religions
and Theology, room 5010, level 5 of the Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2 or by post
before 19 September 2012.
Fee
Part 1
€150
Part 2
€150
Both parts
€259
For security reasons payment should be by
cheque/draft/postal money order only, made
payable to Trinity College no. 1 account. A
concession rate is available to second and third
level students, unemployed persons and those
in receipt of a social welfare pension. Those
paying in two instalments must make the
second payment by Friday, 11 January 2013.
Date
Teaching in Michaelmas term commences
during the week beginning 24 September 2012
and in Hilary term during the week beginning 14
January 2013. Please note this is a day-time
course.
Duration
The course runs for a total of twenty-two weeks
in two parts. Part 1 runs through Michaelmas
term; part 2 runs through Hilary term.
Further information
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone:
01 896 1297, email: