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22 courses with the subject TH, 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.

TH 101THG

1030

Subject: TH
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Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 102THG

1040

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 1020Six Holy Currencies: A Way of Doing Theology

Major Course: BEH 1010 Explorations Human Services, Ethics,

Subject: TH
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Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 115BST Introduction to the Introduces students to hermeneutics, the critical

Introduction to 1010 Academic Study of questions, and a basic methodology for reading the the Academic the Bible biblical text. (Prerequisite for all Bible courses) Study of the Bible

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 150THG

1010

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 152THG

1020

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 205THG

Foundations of 2010

Subject: TH
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Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 207THG Theological Studies of

2030 Death & Dying

Subject: TH
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Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 209THG Theology of the

2040 Family

Subject: TH
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Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 215THG Hip Hop Theology

2050

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 301THG Systematic Theology A systematic study of the historically established

4010 principal doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, including revelation, atonement, the triune God, Christology, theological anthropology, pneumatology, ecclesiology and eschatology.

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 314THG Preachers, Pimps, &

3020 Prophets

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 317THG Contemporary Issues

3030 in Theology

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 325THG Liberation Theology This reading intensive course will introduce students

4040 of James Cone James Cone considered by many to be the founding father of black liberation theology. Students will explore his writings that were developed from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and that have been descriptive and prescriptive for theologians, preachers, civil rights activists, and other persons seeking to work toward a just society. THG Spiritual The purpose of this course is to introduce students to 4050 Autobiograph the literary genre of spiritual autobiography in order to (cross y engage the writings of ancient and contemporary list with writers to explore the signiﬁcance of autobiography ENG and memoir as spiritual voice, self-understanding, and 4020) self-expression. Students will also utilize literary analysis to reﬂect and interrogate metaphysical, existential and ontological matters of the human condition such as suﬀering, happiness, joy, pain, peace, passion, truth, virtue, body, etc. Through careful reﬂection on personal narratives and journey, students will take up the artistic and creative process of writing their own spiritual autobiographies. 99

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 330The Book BST

of Esther 3040

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 350Black Religious Writings

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 380THG History of Theology

3040 Martyrs This course provides an in-depth exploration of the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of death and dying in an historical, scientiﬁc, theological, and pastoral context This course will examine both the historical, social, and political inﬂuences on hip-hop culture as well as hip-hop culture’s appropriation and interpretation of religious language, images, and symbols. Conversely, the course will probe the ways that religious institutions have both resisted and appropriated rap music and hip-hop culture. This course examines possible relationships and intersections between sports and religion. The course will primarily take a Christian perspective but will also incorporate some perspectives from the sociology of religion. The course will also incorporate ﬁlms based on sports. This course will explore how the core themes of manipulation, space, and power are observed, deﬁned, and applied to the preacher, pimp, and prophet roles. It will examine prophetic speech of the pimp and how preachers pimp parishioners and use privilege to manipulate space as a means of personal expansion. The course will also provide a theoretical position of the black prophetic tradition and how prophets in this tradition speak to systemic racism in America. Students will engage recent trends in theological studies as well as explore the intersection of theology and culture. This course will examine early Christian beginnings through Late Antiquity. Discussions will focus on themes such as persecution and martyrdom, monasticism and asceticism. 98

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 400THG Theologies of This course will help students develop a critical

4020 Liberation understanding of the methods, sources, commonalities and diﬀerences of the various forms of liberation theology that emerged across the globe in the 20th century.

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 401PRS

Comparative 2020

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 405/406 THG Black, Womanist, & An in-depth study of major Black Christian thinkers in

4030 Liberation Theology America such as Katie Canon, James Cone, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Delores Williams. Also, attention will be given to other liberation theology, e.g., Third World theology and other writers who address human oppression in the light of biblical teaching.

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 408THG

2020

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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TH 450PRS

Philosophical 4030

Subject: TH
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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