IST1007-1-FA15 - Bodies in the Christian Tradition (Journey Students ONLY)

Instructors: Dr. Katherine Turpin and Dr. Amy Erickson

E-mail: kturpin@iliff.edu
aerickson@iliff.edu

Course Description

In the last two decades, scholars have turned to the body as a lens to analyze Christian theology and religious practice. This class engages interdisciplinary conversations about the body, including God’s body in the biblical texts, historical understandings of the body in rabbinic Judaism and Christian theology, contemporary and historic ritual practices involving the body, and gender as an analytical construct that has structured our assumptions about bodies in theological discourse. We will engage this topic through readings, embodied practices, and class discussions (both online and in person). As a first year interdisciplinary class, this course also provides orientation to the academic practices of graduate theological education, including reading complex theoretical primary texts and engaging in independent research and writing.

Course Overview

Course Objectives

Texts

Required: 

Schroer, Silvia and Thomas Staubli. Body Symbolism in the Bible. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 2001.

Isherwood L. and E. Stuart. Introducing Body Theology. Introductions in Feminist Theology, 2; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988.

Schroer, Silvia and Thomas Staubli. Body Symbolism in the Bible . Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 2001.

Other readings posted as they are assigned in pdf format.

Sample response paper .

https://iliff.instructure.com/courses/866149/wiki/first-year-interdisciplinary-course-bodies-in-the-christian-tradition