ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 3
Course content
1. Introduction to the course
2. A general introduction to the prophetical writings
3. Amos and Hosea
4. Isaiah
5. Micah
6. Nahum and Zephaniah
7. Jeremiah
8. Habakkuk
9. Ezekiel
10. Obadiah and Second Isaiah
11. Third Isaiah
12. Haggai and Zechariah
13. Malachi and Joel
14. Jonah
15. Daniel
16. A general introduction to the sapiential writings
17. Proverbs
18. Job
19. Qoheleth
20. Ben Sira and Book of Wisdom
21. Song of Songs
22. Psalms
23. Final review and discussion
ECTS credits: 4
Weekly class hours: 2
Course Content
1. Review: declinable words
The verb and its categories
Present indicative active, M/P, infinitive, and imperative
Future indicative active and medium; conjugation of sigmatic forms
2. Translation exercises: John 1:1-18
3. The aorist (regular) and imperfect tenses (Lk 14-15)
4. John 1:19-34
5. 2nd aorist (Lk 16)
6. John 1:53-51
7. The future passive tense
8. John 2,1-11
9. Mi verbs (athematic conjugation)
10. John 3,7-21
11. Formation of the participle and its function
12. John 5,16-30
13. The perfect tense and reduplication
14. Genetivus absolutus
15. John 17,1-5
16. The function of the subjunctive
ECTS credits: 8
Weekly class hours: 4
Course Content
1. Socio-political, cultural, and religious circumstances and preconditions of the Reformation, Martin Luther
2. The Swiss Reformation, Calvinism and the Huguenots, Protestantism in England
3. Radical Reformation, Anabaptism
4. Council of Trent and the Jesuit order
5. Religious situation at the turn of the 17th century, the Thirty Years’ War
6. Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism, the involvement of Protestant countries in the colonialist race, the accompanying missions
7. Puritanism and the establishment of the first colonies in the New World
8. Other Protestant groups in North America: Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Amish, Mennonites, and others
9. Missions to other parts of the world
10. Enlightenment and the “enlightened absolutism”
11. The French Revolution and the development of secularism
12. Protestantism and Catholicism on the threshold of modern age
13. Churches facing the rise of Nazism, World War II and the Jewish Question
14. After the war: churches opening up for contemporary social issues, ecumenism
15. Conclusions and reflections on the current situation
ECTS: 4
Weekly class hours: 3
Course Content
1. The doctrine of God (God's attributes; the Triune God) I
2. The doctrine of God (God's attributes; the Triune God) II
3. The doctrines of creation and providence I
4. The doctrines of creation and providence II
5. The doctrines of man and sin I
6. The doctrines of man and sin II
7. The doctrine of Jesus Christ I
8. The doctrine of Jesus Christ II
9. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit
10. The doctrine of salvation
11. The doctrine of the Church I
12. The doctrine of the Church II
13. The doctrine of the last things I
14. The doctrine of the last things II
15. Review and final discussion
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, getting acquainted with the primary sources and scholarly literature for Croatian Church history
2. Christianity in the area of present-day Croatia before the arrival of the Croats
3. Church in Croatia during the Early Middle Ages
4. Church in Croatia during the High and Late Middle Ages
5. The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Renewal/Counter-Reformation
6. The 17th and 18th centuries in the Croatian Church
7. The 19th and 20th centuries in the Croatian Church
ECTS credits: 3
Weekly class hours: 2
Course Content
1. Introduction to the objectives and requirements of the course
2. The development of catechetics throughout history
3. Katecheo and correlation
4. Places of catechesis and catechists
5. Religious pedagogy – catechesis of various age groups
6. Cognitive development
7. Moral development
8. Religious development
9. Goals, tasks, and teaching methods of Religious Education
10. Exercise – field teaching, Sunday school class
11. Exercise II – field teaching, Sunday school class
12. Evaluation of the exercises
13. Exercise – designing a lesson in Religious Education based on acquired knowledge
14. Exercise – presentation and evaluation of designed lessons
15. Final discussion: Readiness for catechesis
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 2
Course content
1. Theology and language; Articles
2. Theology and spirituality
3. Religion and culture
4. Ecological theology; Conditional clauses
5. Speaking: What role can a theologian play in solving ecological issues; Distinguishing between fact and opinion
6. Genes, ethics and theology; Participles and participle clauses
7. Christianity and religious pluralism
8. Debate: Christianity and religious pluralism
9. Oral presentation: dos and don’ts; Using visual aids in presentations
10. Speaking and Listening: Students’ presentations; Critical listening and peer marking of the presentations
11. Speaking and Listening: Students’ presentations; Critical listening and peer marking of the presentations
12. Listening to predict main focus, understanding key points and taking notes
13. Grace; Sentence formation
14. Revision
15. Revision
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
1. Theoretical and historical preconditions for the creation and development of sociology; basic concepts and conceptual structure in the context of the development of society and the science of sociology; critical outlook at the time of the creation of sociology (positivism, atheism)
2. Classical theories of sociology of religion: Emile Durkheim, defining religion; critique of animism and naturalism; analysis of totemism as the original form of religion; functionalistic approach to religion; sacred and profane; analysis of the role and importance of religious rituals; integrative function of religion
3. Classical theories of sociology of religion: Karl Marx, critical approach to the analysis of the religious phenomenon, with an emphasis on a specific socio-historical context; analysis of the legitimating role of religion
4. Classical theories of sociology of religion: Max Weber, the concept of charisma; sociological analysis of the doctrine of predestination; the concept of the calling; an analysis of the creation of religions; protestant ethics; the process of "disenchantment"; the influence of protestant ethics on the formation of capitalism
5. Theories of secularization and contemporary theoretical approaches of sociology of religion; the creation and development of the process of secularization: emphasis on the socio-historical context; the interconnectedness of modernization and secularization
6. Analysis of the basic concept and basic theoretical approaches to secularization: B. Wilson, K. Dobbelaere, S. Bruce
7. Analysis of basic critical approaches: J. K. Hadden and R. Stark
8. Contemporary theories of sociology of religion: P. Berger and the "sacred cosmos"; T. Luckmann and the "invisible religion"; Bellah and "civil religion"
9. Contemporary theories of sociology of religion: G. Davie, the representational role of religion, and the crisis of Churches; D. Hervieu-Leger and religion as the "chain of memory"; J. Casanova and the public role of religion
10. Contemporary themes of sociology of religion: Religion in the age of globalization I; basic approaches to globalization; the role of religion in the processes of globalization
11. Contemporary themes of sociology of religion: Religion in the age of globalization II; religion, nation, secularity, and violence in the global context
12. Contemporary themes of sociology of religion: Religion in the age of neoliberalism I; religion and capitalism; the basics of neoliberalism; religious freedoms and neoliberalism
13. Contemporary themes of sociology of religion: Religion in the age of neoliberalism II; the place, role, and activities of religious institutions in a neoliberal context; economy of desires and religious authority; analysis of religious responses to global neoliberalism
14. Religion in contemporary Croatian society: Social and religious changes, the development of sociology of religion in Croatia
15. Religious overview of contemporary Croatian society in a European context: Analysis of basic indicators based on the results of empirical research between 1997 and 2018.
ECTS credits: /
Weekly class hours: 1
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
A list of elective courses can be found here.
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
A list of elective courses can be found here.
