Courses » THEO 585b: Selected topics in Theology: Themes in Catholicism and Interreligious Studies

Description: Since Nostra Aetate and Vatican II, the question of interreligious understanding and dialogue has become a major concern for Catholics and Catholic theology. Globalization has made interreligious understanding and dialogue unavoidable, since now the world’s religions have more regular contact with one another, and interreligious understanding and dialogue has become urgent due to the numerous wars and conflicts in which religion often plays a role. In Canada, sensitivity to Indigenous religion and spirituality has also become a foremost concern in Truth and Reconciliation dialogue. This course will survey some historical interactions of Christians with non-Christian religions and cultures as the Christian faith spread throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and beyond, but will focus most of its attention on the 20th and 21st centuries and will explore issues in the Theology of Religions and Comparative Theology.
Credits: 3.0