19 courses with the subject REL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
The religious history of the Hebrew people from 2000 BCE to the CE with special emphasis on the conceptions of God and man. Attention is given to the influence of social and political history on Hebrew religion, culture, and ethics.
This course is an introduction to the life and teachings of Jesus. The course includes a study of the background of the life of Jesus, and an analysis of his teaching methods and the content of his message.
This course is an introduction to the study of religion and its influence on contemporary culture. The course deals with the leaders, basic beliefs, and practices of major world religions: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Hinduism. The course is designed to enable the student to understand religion as a vital part of the human experience.
Total Ethics Minor 24 credits
This course is an introduction to the various religious occurrences and to the several approaches to the study of religion and spirituality. The student will be introduced to a variety of methodological approaches, drawing on Western and non-Western religions, including African religion, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Native American religion.
The students will be introduced to the rise of Christianity. Biographical material relating to important figures, major themes, defining moments, and ideas will be identified. The theological debates and subsequent schisms will be examined; the growth of Christian institutions, popular piety, sects and heterodox groups will also be examined.
This is a survey of the major Western religious traditions, from the Nineteenth Century to the present, with special emphasis on science and religion, theology and culture, theology of liberation, and Black theology.
This course is designed to acquaint students with philosophy of religion. The course familiarizes students with philosophical issues in religion. Also, the course deals with the entire breadth of religions, covering theism, monotheism, pantheism, non-theism and atheism. Other themes include metaphysics, ethics, science and existence.
This course studies of the relation of religion to culture in American life both in its institutional and non-institutional forms. Special attention will be given to the religious significance of symbols and myths which have developed in American culture. It will also deal with the role of the major religious traditions: Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Judaism, in terms of their historical development and contemporary significance.
Elective 4 Elective 4 Total 16
This course is an introduction to the study of Comparative religions. The course deals with the prophets, basic beliefs, rituals, theologies, and practices of select major world religions, namely: African Traditional Religion, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The course is designed to enable the student to understand religions in their diversity.
This course is a comparative study of the lives, actions and philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, America’s greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century {the 1950’s and 1960’s}. The course LINCOLN UNIVERSITY 2026
The course studies a variety of liberation theories and theologies that have been developed by people of African descent in Diaspora. Special attention will be given to political, economic, social, racial and spiritual approaches to the problems of oppression, racism, marginalization and poverty. Systemic racism expressed in Police brutality, the ballot, corporate hiring will be explored. The course also explores themes like Black lives matter to develop and strengthen the student's consciousness in a racist society.
This course is designed to acquaint students with not only the classical but also the language and current state of systematic theology. The course is intended to familiarize the students with theological issues and terminology. Also, it deals with a variety of theologies, covering Western, African, Asian and Eastern perspectives. In addition to God, the central theme, other themes include metaphysics, ontology, good and evil.
Religion 4 Elective 4 Elective 4 Total 16
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Total Religion Major 44 credits General Education 52 credits Major 44 credits Electives 32 credits Total required for BS degree 128 credits General Education 52 credits Major 44 credits Language through 2002 level 8 credits Electives 24 credits Total required for BA degree 128 credits LINCOLN UNIVERSITY 2026
Source: Lincoln University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
