Graduate Registration

APO 512-2 Catholic Apologetics – Karlo Broussard
This course introduces the student to the art of fulfilling this biblical mandate to cogently and convincingly explain and defend Christian truth, and focuses on the “what” and “how” of apologetics to present a compelling defense of the Faith.

APO 535-2 Moral Apologetics – Karlo Broussard
This course focuses on engaging apologetics from a moral dimension.

CHH 631-2 Mystical Theology in the Church Fathers – Fr. Patrick Kassab
This course focuses on selected writings of representative Eastern and Western Church Fathers to gain a better understanding of and appreciation for their teachings on contemplative prayer and the journey of the soul to Divine Union.

CLA 715-2 Canon Law of Marriage – Philippe Yates
This course introduces student(s) to the canon law of marriage through a systematic presentation and study of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, reflecting on the sacred canons themselves (cc. 1055-1165 and 1671-1707), their purpose, nature, context, history, and theological meaning.

DTH 512-2 Spiritual Life in the Classics – Kristina Olsen
This course provides a study of the great spiritual writers with an emphasis on how the beautiful images and concepts in such classics can help us grow in our own union with God, and in our love of those we encounter in friendship, family, work and mission.

DTH 645-2 Nature & Grace – Joshua Madden
This course is designed to give the student a comprehensive view of the Catholic teaching on nature and grace, especially as presented by St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Matthias Scheeben. Topics to be covered include: the nature of the human person; the natural desire to see God; the biblical presentation of the mystery of divine grace; the mystery of predestination; Aquinas on law; the Council of Trent on the mystery of grace against the reformers; the modern controversies on the relation between nature and grace and the supernatural; etc.

DTH 890-2 Spiritual Theology – Joshua Madden
This course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of what is traditionally called ascetical and mystical theology but which implements the call of the Second Vatican Council to the various experiences and stages of growth in prayer in the universal call to holiness.

MTH 841-2 Catholic Social Teachings – John Bequette
This course traces major themes in Catholic social teachings by using the U.S. Bishops’ document, Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions and includes topics therein.

PAS 511-2 Mission & Evangelization – William O’Leary
This course explores biblical-theological foundations of mission, the forms of evangelization, education for evangelization, specific missionary vocation, challenges in evangelization and an exploration of St. John Paul II’s call for new ardor, expression, and method in evangelization.

PAS 602-2 Fundamentals of Practical Theology – Marianne Siegmund
Practical, or pastoral theology is the “practical application of scientific theology to the care of souls in the sacred ministry”(John A. Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary). Unfortunately, in today’s world, the “unrestricted application of scientific methods to matters of faith appears to be sheer presumption, whereby man oversteps his limits and undermines his own foundations” (Joseph Ratzinger, The Nature and Mission of Theology, 8). Consequently, practical theology must first be grounded in theology itself. Firmly rooted in “scientific theology,” the course seeks to apply the doctrinal truths of the Faith to various pastoral situations confronting today’s minister. Since Sacred Scripture is to “inspire all pastoral work,” this course copiously invokes it (Benedict XVI Verbum Domini#73).

PAS 641-2 Methods in Counseling – Fr. Gregory Lockwood
This course presents appropriate methods in pastoral counseling.

PAS 653-2 Child and Adolescent Catechesis – Edward Trendowski
This course explores the culture of contemporary youth and its ramifications for catechesis. Students prepare to encounter the learner who is immersed in the secular, post-modern milieu. Families in contemporary culture, peer expectations, and the influence of media are addressed. Offered online every other spring during the odd years.

PAS 660-2 Theology of Suffering (Previously: Thanatology) – Marianne Siegmund
This course examines the topic of suffering, dying and death from doctrinal, pastoral, spiritual, and human dimensions. The psychological and social aspects of dying and death will also be considered, along with a brief study on end of life issues. This course enables one in any ministry to address concerns and questions that arise in life, especially with a view to family and youth ministry, hospital chaplaincy, grief ministry, the elderly, and care for the physically and mentally challenged.

PAS 671-2 Spiritual Direction: Skills and Practice – Fr. Gregory Lockwood
This course equips the participants with the technical skills for spiritual direction, skills which enable the participants to go through personal discernment and help others in both personal and communitarian discernment for discovery of personal vocation and decision making.

PAS 683-2 Pastoral Counseling I: Spiritual Helping and Accompaniment – Fr. Gregory Lockwood
This course explores the theology of suffering and how to properly frame common spiritual, emotional and relational problems, help the faithful discover paths for addressing these problems using solution-focused questioning techniques, spiritual resources, and basic pastoral interventions.

PAS 805-2 Trinity and the Incarnation – John O’Neill
This course provides a pastoral understanding of two central mysteries of the Catholic Faith: the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Since pastoral ministry concerns putting people in “communion with the Person of Christ” and helping others to follow Him, this course focuses upon Jesus Christ as the Way to the Father (John Paul II, Catechesis Tradendae #5). A second pastoral focus highlights the practical dimensions by which we can live our communion with the Blessed Trinity in family life, pastoral settings, and in the various ministries in the Church.

SAS 716-2 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

SAS 716-3 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

ENG 891-2 Academic Research, Design, & Writing – Chad Hegelmeyer
This course walks through the process for producing quality academic research papers, beginning with topic selection, research, and writing. The course culminates in the production of an academic research paper and thesis proposal.

ENG/PHS 583-2 Dante’s Divine Comedy: Thomistic Philosophy in Narrative – Benjamin Alexander
This course examines Dante’s Divine Comedy, one canto a day for one hundred days with breaks following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. The work is read as a narrativization of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, a way to experience a successful merger of theology and philosophy.

PHE 505-2 Narrative & the Moral Life – Melissa Mitchell
This course examines the ethical influence of stories by focusing on philosophical analyses of narrative and moral life. Topics may include: the sources and limits of narratives’ moral power; their nature and structure; principles for the ethical evaluation of stories and their readers; and stories in Catholic spirituality.

PHE 615-2 Nicomachean Ethics – John Stefanczyk
The course will consist of large selected portions of The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle The intent is to show the pagan material which aided St. Thomas Aquinas in his formulation of his Christian Moral Theology and Moral Philosophy.

PHE 663 Natural Law – John Stefanczyk
This course includes topics such as enlightenment jurisprudence and the “Culture of Death,” the foundations of the natural law, how the natural law works, natural law as a basis for good laws, and natural law in Catholic moral teaching.

PHH 605-2 Ancient & Medieval Philosophy – Timothy Smith
This course covers some of the most important figures and themes of Ancient & Medieval philosophy, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the nature of man, education, the ultimate end of human activity, the meaning of life, God, Providence, and faith and reason.

PHH 605-3 Ancient & Medieval Philosophy – Timothy Smith
This course covers some of the most important figures and themes of Ancient & Medieval philosophy, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the nature of man, education, the ultimate end of human activity, the meaning of life, God, Providence, and faith and reason.

PHH 620-2 Modern & Contemporary Philosophy – Randall Colton
This course is an historical introduction to the thought and texts of principal modern philosophers from Descartes to Hegel and of principal contemporary philosophers from Kierkegaard to the present.

PHH 681-2 St. Thomas and Arabic Philosophy – Eric Manchester
This course examines the historical and systematic development of philosophy as an aid to theology produced in the Arabic-speaking world during the classical period of Arabic scholasticism from al- Kindi (in the early 9th century) to Ibn Rushd (in the late 12th century).

PHH 781-2 Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas – Francisco Plaza
This course covers Aquinas on medieval education, the rise of universities, faith and reason, Aristotelian thought, Aquinas on the world and man, man as a moral agent, the meaning of life, the ultimate end of human action, difference between knowledge and faith; God.

PHH 792-2 Philosophy of Edith Stein – John Finley
This course examines the intellectual life and writings of Edith Stein, or as she was later called, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, including her attempt to relate the phenomenological and Thomistic traditions of philosophy and her analysis of human personhood, her account of the nature and vocation of woman, and her discussion of the ways in which we can know God.

PHH 793-2 Plato’s Republic – Derya Rix
This course provides a Catholic investigation of one of the great seminal works of philosophy. The Church has a tradition of faith and reason by which man flies to the fullness of truth, we will be trying to give the wing of reason a good work out.

PHH/SAI 560-2 Medieval Christian Wisdom and Sacred Art – Marguerite Mullee
This course will explore medieval philosophies of art and beauty, their classical beginnings and their influence on artistic expression. Delving into medieval sacred art and music, students will examine how the arts reflect society and offer us a deeper knowledge of the transcendent aspects of the human experience.

PHS 610-2 Philosophical Anthropology – John Finley
This course studies human nature from the perspective of the perennial tradition of Catholic philosophy, as well as that of Catholic phenomenological and existential insights.

PHS 611-2 Logic and Epistemology – Philippe Yates
This course surveys twin foundations upon which all philosophy depends, relying on Aristotelian insights as developed by the great Christian philosophers of the Middle Ages, and develops these in the light of contributions from modern and contemporary philosophy.

PHS 621-2 Philosophy of Nature & Metaphysics – Timothy Smith
This course explores the fundamental aspects of the natural world knowable to philosophy and science, including a discussion of the methodology and limits of the scientific and philosophical methods, along with the metaphysics of Aristotle; presuppositions of metaphysics, the subject matter of metaphysics, the scandal of generality, substance and essence, from finite to Infinite Being, the nature of existence, the names of God.

PHS 721-2 Philosophy of Science – Peter Mango
The course examines the purpose of science and the reliability of scientific theories as these overlap with metaphysics and epistemology and consider the historical origins, methods and implications of “science” in both its ancient and its modern sense as well as the sociocultural implications of scientific claims within the history of ideas and of appeals to “science” for philosophical anthropology and ethics.

PHS 731-2 The One & the Many – Eduardo Bernot
This course is a study of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas concerning the nature of the metaphysical principles of unity and multiplicity and the essential role that these principles play in the existence of things and all other principles of being, becoming, and knowing, including those of experience, art, philosophy, science.

PHS 761-2 The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful & the Ugly – Jonathan Fuqua
This course is a study of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas about good and its opposite, evil, and the beautiful and its opposite, the ugly, in relationship to unity and multiplicity, being and non-being, and truth and error, and different kinds of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, considered in themselves and in relation to their existence within human knowing faculties, appetites, and in relationship to God.

BIE 625-2 Catholic Bioethics – Benjamin Parks
This interdisciplinary course prepares students for pastoral service through an intensive review of the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding the sanctity and dignity of human life from the moment of conception until natural death. Topics include the most challenging and difficult moral and medical issues in the field of contemporary bioethics.

BIE 639-2 Bioethics & the Law – Benjamin Parks
This course introduces basic constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law related to bioethics. United States Supreme Court case law is a central component of the course. The course will examine the development of constitutional substantive due process, privacy, individual autonomy, and equal protection. The structure of American constitutional government, the separation of powers, the protection of individual liberties, and related political and philosophical foundations are examined.

BIE/MTH 750-2 Magisterial Teaching Related to Major Catholic Bioethics Issues – Hermann Frieboes
This course is a study of Magisterial and Church documents that provide the basis of many Catholic Church bioethics teachings. By taking this course, students will understand the continuity of Church teaching over time on matters of chastity, marriage, and respect for life as well as have an opportunity to synthesize their understanding for their own appreciation, for future study and for their work in evangelizing the culture.

BIE 796-2 Bioethics in the Post Christian Culture – Lucy Knouse
This course examines the relationship between Catholic bioethics and secular culture.

CHH 620-2 The Reformation and Counter-Reformation – Matthew Vander Vennet
This course explores the period of Church history known as the Catholic Reformation. Topics explored include: 1) the Catholic Reformation as a proactive reform movement within the Church; 2) the challenge of Protestantism and its impact upon the reform; 3) the Council of Trent; and 4) the various religious orders that emerged during the period and their various apostolates.

CHH 631-2 Mystical Theology in the Church Fathers – Fr. Patrick Kassab
This course focuses on selected writings of representative Eastern and Western Church Fathers to gain a better understanding of and appreciation for their teachings on contemplative prayer and the journey of the soul to Divine Union.

CHH/DTH 671-2 Documents of Vatican II – Lucy Underwood
This course introduces the history of Vatican II and the content of the documents. Topics include the background of the Council, the nature of the Church, inner spiritual renewal, the Church and the world, and the effects of the Council.

CHH 712-2 Medieval Church History – Lucy Underwood
In this course, we will follow the history of the Church from the end of the Roman Empire to the eve of the Reformation. You will discover the major developments in the Catholic Church and the historical events that affected her, and in which the Church‘s leaders often played major roles. We will cover the conversion of Europe, the Crusades, the development of the Papacy, and the remarkable culture of Medieval Christendom. You will also encounter some of the people who shaped the Church and the world of the Middle Ages. This course will build on your study of Patristics and the Early Church, and prepare you to study the Reformation era and modern Church history. It will also complement your study of the Ecumenical Councils of the Church.

CHH 881-2 Patristics – John Joy
This course surveys selected writings from the principal Fathers of the Church. The focus is on the development of Catholic Doctrine from the Apostolic Fathers to St. Gregory the Great, with emphasis on the Trinitarian and Christological questions.

CLA 715-2 Canon Law of Marriage – Philippe Yates
This course introduces student(s) to the canon law of marriage through a systematic presentation and study of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, reflecting on the sacred canons themselves (cc. 1055-1165 and 1671-1707), their purpose, nature, context, history, and theological meaning.

DTH 512-2 Spiritual Life in the Classics – Kristina Olsen
This course provides a study of the great spiritual writers with an emphasis on how the beautiful images and concepts in such classics can help us grow in our own union with God, and in our love of those we encounter in friendship, family, work and mission.

DTH 600-2 Faith and Revelation – Marianne Siegmund
This course will provide an exploration of the teachings of the Church on the mysteries of faith and revelation, through the study of related Magisterial documents and various writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Topics include: the meaning of Revelation; the relationship between Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium; the relationship between faith and reason; the necessity, character, and effects of grace; the object, act, and virtue of faith; sins against faith; and the nature and mission of theology.

DTH 645-2 Nature & Grace – Joshua Madden
This course is designed to give the student a comprehensive view of the Catholic teaching on nature and grace, especially as presented by St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Matthias Scheeben. Topics to be covered include: the nature of the human person; the natural desire to see God; the biblical presentation of the mystery of divine grace; the mystery of predestination; Aquinas on law; the Council of Trent on the mystery of grace against the reformers; the modern controversies on the relation between nature and grace and the supernatural; etc.

DTH 731-2 One and Triune God – Matthew Ramage
This course is a doctrinal study of the nature and attributes of God as known by revelation and reason. The God we know and love is One and Three. Topics in this course address both the unity of God and the three-ness of God. The work of St. Thomas Aquinas is used to expose students to these truths to be believed and to form a foundation for further growth and study. This course is a pre- requisite to DTH 751 Christology.

DTH 751-2 Christology – Fr. Yosyp Veresh
This course considers the person of Jesus Christ and the theology of the Incarnation, with particular attention to the development of Christological doctrine and to the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Students registering for Christology must have already completed DTH 731 One and Triune God.

DTH 760-2 Theology of the Church – Matthew Vander Vennet
This course investigates the nature and characteristics of the Church, its attributes, its structures, its mission and its relation to the world, and the development of Catholic thought concerning ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.

DTH 890-2 Spiritual Theology – Joshua Madden
This course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of what is traditionally called ascetical and mystical theology but which implements the call of the Second Vatican Council to the various experiences and stages of growth in prayer in the universal call to holiness.

ENG 890-2 Summative Evaluation: Comprehensive Exam & Professional Paper (Theology) – James Gentile
This course prepares M.A. Theology students to pass the oral-comprehensive exam in Dogmatic and Moral Theology during Final Exam Week and to write a ten-page professional paper in the student’s concentration. The professional paper will be written under the direction of an advisor the semester after passing the ENG 890 oral exam.

ENG 891-2 Academic Research, Design, & Writing – Chad Hegelmeyer
This course walks through the process for producing quality academic research papers, beginning with topic selection, research, and writing. The course culminates in the production of an academic research paper and thesis proposal.

MTH 611-2 Fundamental Moral Theology I – John O’Neill
This course presents fundamental moral principles from the perspective of the classical Catholic moral tradition especially as represented by Thomas Aquinas and John Paul II. Primary questions include the end of man, human acts, moral determinants, freedom, sin, moral responsibility, and conscience.

MTH 841-2 Catholic Social Teachings – John Bequette
This course traces major themes in Catholic social teachings by using the U.S. Bishops’ document, Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions and includes topics therein.

MTH 851-2 Contemporary Moral Issues – Melissa Mitchell
This course researches and evaluates selected significant moral questions confronting the Church and the world today, including such issues as abortion and euthanasia in their contemporary aspects, pressing issues in social justice, issues in business, environment, and media ethics, and critical issues in sexual ethics.

MTH/PAS/PHE 680-2 Marriage & Theology of the Body – Lucy Knouse
This course approaches marriage from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering the biblical foundations for the Theology of the Body as expressed in the works of St. John Paul II, seeking to relate the Theology of the Body in the practical encounters of life, love and Marriage, and introduces Catholic sexual ethics using the work of John Paul II, and examines the significant philosophical thought of Karol Wojtyla on this topic in his Love and Responsibility and Theology of the Body. Online and residential.

PHS 607-2 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

PHS 607-3 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

SAS 561-2 Gospel of John – Fr. William Mills
This course studies the Gospel of John considering the historical, religious, and cultural background of this gospel and major themes such as covenant, Kingdom of God, grace, redemption, wisdom, prophecy, creation, Trinity, faith, angels, resurrection and priesthood.

SAS 602-2 Soul of Theology – John Joy
Sacred Scripture is the soul of theology. This course lays the foundation for the study of the Sacred Page by examining the most important concepts for a theological understanding of Scripture, by establishing firm principles for its interpretation, and by considering its use in the science of Theology. Central topics include divine revelation, tradition, magisterium, inspiration, inerrancy, literal and spiritual senses, development of the canon, texts and editions, and the use of Scripture in theology and in prayer (lectio divina).

SAS 651-2 Synoptic Gospels – Matthew Ramage
This course explores the stylistic and literary characteristics of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Students study the Synoptic Gospels’ theological, spiritual, and historical background.

SAS 712-2 Pentateuch – Nathan Schmiedicke
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the books of the Pentateuch. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the Pentateuch as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the historical, theological, legal, and ceremonial aspects of the Pentateuch, as well as upon themes of creation, sin, and the redemption of Jesus Christ both promised and foreshadowed in the lives of the Patriarchs and in the precepts of the Law.

SAS 713-2 Historical Books – Michael Morris
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Old Testament historical books. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the historical books as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the outworking of God’s divine covenants despite, and through, human fallibility, as well as upon Jesus Christ as the ultimate interpretive “key” and culmination of ancient Israelite history and monarchy. Prerequisite: SAS

SAS 715 -2 Prophets – Nathan Schmiedicke
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Old Testament prophetic books. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to prophetic literature as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the nature of prophecy, the dramatic actions of the prophets, prophetic commentary on the meaning and fulfillment of the Law, and the eschatological dimension of prophecy which finds its fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Prerequisite: SAS 712 Pentateuch

SAS 716-2 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

SAS 716-3 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

SAS 717-2 Luke and Acts of the Apostles – Fr. Thomas Crean

This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts (with emphasis on the latter), and thus of the birth and growth of the early Church. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to Luke and Acts as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine Luke and Acts as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their chronological, literary, and theological unity. Prerequisite: SAS 716 Gospels. Note: This course replaces SAS 657 Luke and Acts of the Apostles.

SAS 719-2 Catholic Epistles and Revelation – Joshua Madden
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Catholic Epistles (James, I-II Peter, I, II, III John, Jude) and the Book of Revelation. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to these books as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Prerequisite: SAS 716 Gospels

GRK 502-2 Greek II – Hannah Murphy
This course is designed to develop the student’s knowledge of the basics of koine Greek (the Greek of the New Testament). It is the second of three courses designed to give the student the skills necessary to read the New Testament and other ancient Greek texts with pleasure and understanding. It will also provide the linguistic basis to pursue more advanced scholarly work in New Testament studies. Prerequisite: Greek I

HEB 502-2 Hebrew II – Geoffrey Ludvik
This course is designed to develop the student’s knowledge of the basics of biblical Hebrew. It is the second of three courses designed to give the student the skills necessary to read the Old Testament with pleasure and understanding. It will also provide the linguistic basis to pursue advanced scholarly work in Old Testament studies. Prerequisite: Hebrew I

PHS 607-2 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

PHS 607-3 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

SAS 602-2 Soul of Theology – John Joy
Sacred Scripture is the soul of theology. This course lays the foundation for the study of the Sacred Page by examining the most important concepts for a theological understanding of Scripture, by establishing firm principles for its interpretation, and by considering its use in the science of Theology. Central topics include divine revelation, tradition, magisterium, inspiration, inerrancy, literal and spiritual senses, development of the canon, texts and editions, and the use of Scripture in theology and in prayer (lectio divina).

SAS 712-2 Pentateuch – Nathan Schmiedicke
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the books of the Pentateuch. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the Pentateuch as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the historical, theological, legal, and ceremonial aspects of the Pentateuch, as well as upon themes of creation, sin, and the redemption of Jesus Christ both promised and foreshadowed in the lives of the Patriarchs and in the precepts of the Law.

SAS 713-2 Historical Books – Michael Morris
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Old Testament historical books. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the historical books as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the outworking of God’s divine covenants despite, and through, human fallibility, as well as upon Jesus Christ as the ultimate interpretive “key” and culmination of ancient Israelite history and monarchy. Prerequisite: SAS

SAS 715 -2 Prophets – Nathan Schmiedicke
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Old Testament prophetic books. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to prophetic literature as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Emphasis will be placed upon the nature of prophecy, the dramatic actions of the prophets, prophetic commentary on the meaning and fulfillment of the Law, and the eschatological dimension of prophecy which finds its fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Prerequisite: SAS 712 Pentateuch

SAS 716-2 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

SAS 716-3 Gospels – Andrew Blaski
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to the gospels as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine the Gospels as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their historical and theological unity, centered in their common proclamation of the life, death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

SAS 717-2 Luke and Acts of the Apostles – Fr. Thomas Crean

This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts (with emphasis on the latter), and thus of the birth and growth of the early Church. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to Luke and Acts as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. The course will examine Luke and Acts as individual works while simultaneously highlighting their chronological, literary, and theological unity. Prerequisite: SAS 716 Gospels. Note: This course replaces SAS 657 Luke and Acts of the Apostles.

SAS 719-2 Catholic Epistles and Revelation – Joshua Madden
This course is a study of the content, background, purpose, composition, and structure of the Catholic Epistles (James, I-II Peter, I, II, III John, Jude) and the Book of Revelation. Students will be introduced to a variety of patristic, medieval, and contemporary interpretive approaches to these books as found in the rich Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition. Prerequisite: SAS 716 Gospels

MTH 611-2 Fundamental Moral Theology I – John O’Neill
This course presents fundamental moral principles from the perspective of the classical Catholic moral tradition especially as represented by Thomas Aquinas and John Paul II. Primary questions include the end of man, human acts, moral determinants, freedom, sin, moral responsibility, and conscience.

MTH 851-2 Contemporary Moral Issues – Melissa Mitchell
This course researches and evaluates selected significant moral questions confronting the Church and the world today, including such issues as abortion and euthanasia in their contemporary aspects, pressing issues in social justice, issues in business, environment, and media ethics, and critical issues in sexual ethics.

PAS 511-2 Mission & Evangelization – William O’Leary
This course explores biblical-theological foundations of mission, the forms of evangelization, education for evangelization, specific missionary vocation, challenges in evangelization and an exploration of St. John Paul II’s call for new ardor, expression, and method in evangelization.

PAS 602-2 Fundamentals of Practical Theology – Marianne Siegmund
Practical, or pastoral theology is the “practical application of scientific theology to the care of souls in the sacred ministry”(John A. Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary). Unfortunately, in today’s world, the “unrestricted application of scientific methods to matters of faith appears to be sheer presumption, whereby man oversteps his limits and undermines his own foundations” (Joseph Ratzinger, The Nature and Mission of Theology, 8). Consequently, practical theology must first be grounded in theology itself. Firmly rooted in “scientific theology,” the course seeks to apply the doctrinal truths of the Faith to various pastoral situations confronting today’s minister. Since Sacred Scripture is to “inspire all pastoral work,” this course copiously invokes it (Benedict XVI Verbum Domini#73).

PAS 660-2 Theology of Suffering (Previously: Thanatology) – Marianne Siegmund
This course examines the topic of suffering, dying and death from doctrinal, pastoral, spiritual, and human dimensions. The psychological and social aspects of dying and death will also be considered, along with a brief study on end of life issues. This course enables one in any ministry to address concerns and questions that arise in life, especially with a view to family and youth ministry, hospital chaplaincy, grief ministry, the elderly, and care for the physically and mentally challenged.

PHS 607-2 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

PHS 607-3 The Perennial Philosophy – Nathan Metzger
This is a foundational philosophy course for the graduate student of theology. While various philosophical concepts will be presented, the majority of the course material will point toward the application of philosophy to the theology of the Catholic Church. For the student who has some philosophical background, this course remains essential for understanding the terminology used in Catholic theology (e.g., cause, effect, form, matter, substance, accident, nature, essence, existence, relation, science, wisdom). Topics include why philosophy is necessary for theology, the history of philosophy, anthropology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and social philosophy.

SAS 651-2 Synoptic Gospels – Matthew Ramage
This course explores the stylistic and literary characteristics of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Students study the Synoptic Gospels’ theological, spiritual, and historical background.