RELIGION

Many of our most pressing social issues are complex, structural, and systemic phenomena. Included among these collective problems are climate change, migrant deaths, income inequality, sweatshop labor, homelessness, and housing/school segregation. Amid such complex social evils, how should we think about blame and responsibility? In this course, we will examine Christian theological, philosophical, and sociological sources in order to better understand complicity, responsibility, and blameworthiness as it relates to structural injustices or structural sin... Examines the ways Jews over the last two thousand years thought about, polemicized against, and celebrated, Jesus of Nazareth... This course examines the most famous canonical Jewish texts of all time, including the Talmud, the writings of Moses Maimonides, and Jewish Mysticism (the Book of the Zohar).