ECTS credits: 4
Weekly class hours: 3
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course
2. Genesis 1,1-5
3. Genesis 1,6-13
4. Genesis 1,14-19
5. Genesis 1,20-25
6. Genesis 1,26-31
7. Genesis 2,1-4a
8. Genesis 2,4b-9
9. Genesis 2,10-17
10. Genesis 2,18-25
11. Exodus 20,1-6
12. Exodus 20,7-11
13. Exodus 20,12-17
14. Numbers 6,24-26
15. Deuteronomy 6,4-6
16. Deuteronomy 6,7-9
17. Psalm 1,1-3
18. Psalm 1,4-6
19. Psalm 8,2-5
20. Psalm 8,6-10
21. Psalm 121,1-4
22. Psalm 121,5-8
23. Review and final discussion
ECTS Credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 3
Course Content
Unit 1: The Roman Empire: The cradle of Christianity
1. The early Church in the "global" environment of the Roman Empire
2. Acts of the Apostles as early Christian history
3. Sociological features of the first Church within the environment of the Roman Empire
4. The life and coexistence of Jesus' followers as a sociological problem
Unit 2: Paul the Apostle
1. Chronology of his life and the three missionary voyages
2. A worldwide missionary strategy? (Acts and Galatians)
3. The Judaist issue and Paul's solution to the problem of the relationship between Jews and gentiles within the Christian faith
4. God's righteousness and the Pagans' Apostle (Romans)
5. The issue of the Law (Romans)
6. Apostolicity and heresies: The issues of early catholicity and pseudepigraphy (2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, 2 Peter)
7. Paul's Corinthian correspondence (1 and 2 Corinthians)
8. Pastoral epistles and the issue of ecclesial leadership
9. Ethics and eschatology of the early Church (1 Thessalonians)
10. Paul and other apostles: The Epistle of James
Unit 3: Other New Testament authors
1. John: The Gospel for the next generations
2. A test of love: The Epistles of John
3. Theology of John's writings compared to Paul's
4. Gnostic heresies (Colossians, 1 Peter, Jude)
5. The Church as the place of salvation (Colossians)
6. Epistle to the Hebrews: A gospel for Jews?
7. Revelation: The Christian witness as a critique of the global social order
8. The importance of context for New Testament research
ECTS credits: 6
Weekly class hours: 4
Course content
1. Introduction to the course
2. Periods in the history of philosophy I
3. Periods in the history of philosophy II
4. Basic concepts of philosophy and philosophical disciplines
5. Pre-Socratic philosophers
6. Socrates and Plato
7. Aristotle
8. Hellenistic philosophy
9. Medieval philosophy I
10. Medieval philosophy II
11. Descartes
12. Spinoza
13. Leibniz
14. British Empiricism
15. Kant
16. Hegel
17. Fichte and Schelling
18. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
19. Kierkegaard
20. 20th century philosophy I
21. 20th century philosophy II
22. Theology and philosophy I – middle ages
23. Theology and philosophy II – rationalism and the primacy of reason
24. Theology and philosophy III – classical German idealism; Hegel and the death of God
25. Theology and philosophy IV – Nietzsche and Christianity
26. Theology and philosophy V – Kierkegaard and existentialism
27. Review and final discussion
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 2
Course content
1. Structure and cohesion
2. Paraphrasing and summarizing; Text analysis
3. Agreement between subject and verb; Text analysis
4. Theological vocabulary – definitions
5. Debate: expressing opinion, agreement and disagreement
6. Modes of discourse: mythical and symbolic- analogical
7. Modes of discourse: metaphysical, existential, empirical
8. Prediction as an aid to comprehension
9. Hypothesizing and speculating; Conditional clauses
10. Compare and contrast essays, cause and effect
11. Writing: exposition schema – discussion and argument
12. Nominalization
13. Reviewing academic writing: register, referencing, modality
14. Cohesive devices
15. Revision
ECTS credits: 3
Weekly class hours: 2
Course content
1. Introduction to the course, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. Introduction to participles, Present Participle Active
3. Past Participle Passive
4. Repetition and translation exercises
5. Functions of Ablative in a sentence and the Ablative Absolute
6. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
7. Irregular verbs volo, nolo, malo
8. Repetition and translation exercises
9. Subjunctive: use and function; Present Subjunctive
10. Imperfect and Past Perfect Subjunctive
11. Repetition and translation exercises
12. Gerundive and Gerund
13. Accusative with Infinitive and Nominative with Infinitive
14. Repetition and translation exercises
15. Review of the learning results and preparation for the exam
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introductory lecture: Basic premises of psychology of religion (defining the concept of religiosity, and the basic characteristics of the psychological approach to the study of religiosity)
2. The history of psychology of religion: overview of the major psychological interpretations of religiosity
3. Psychological phenomena of religiosity: prayer, mystical experiences, conversion, psychopathology, and religiosity
4. Religion in major systems of psychology I: Sigmund Freud
5. Religion in major systems of psychology II: Carl Gustav Jung
6. Religion in major systems of psychology III: Viktor Frankl
7. Religiosity and mental health: the basic views of particular authors on the relationship between religiosity and mental health.
ECTS credits: 4
Weekly class hours: 3
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, the resources, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. Panorama/map of Christian Churches/communities of today
3. Panorama/map of Christian Churches/communities in Croatia today
4. The concept and manifestations of the unity of the Church in early Christianity, and the methods for resolving disputes (common confession/common apostolic doctrines, sharing of goods, one Scripture, one baptism, communion around the Lord's table, mutual recognition of ministers, Apostolic Council)
5. Crises related to the influence of so-called heresies in the second, third, and fourth centuries (e.g. Gnosticism, Arianism), and the measures taken to resolve them (canonization, creation of the ecumenical creeds, development of ecclesial structures)
6. Historical-theological and socio-political context of the causes, course, and consequences of the schism that occurred during the so-called Christological discussions in the fifth and sixth century
7. Historical-theological and socio-political context of the causes, course and consequences of the so-called Great Schism of 1054, and the (problematic) attempts to overcome it
8. The impaired unity of Western Christendom from the so-called Great Schism until the eve of the Reformation (so-called Western Schism, dissident movements, pre-reformation movements)
9. The historical-theological and socio-political context of the reformation as a movement for the renewal of the Church
10. The Reformation as a new schism in Western Christendom, and confessionalization – the Reformers' efforts to overcome the controversial issues in theology and Church praxis on a wide ecumenical platform, which included the appeal for a so-called free ecumenical council
11. The historical-theological and socio-political context of unification efforts from the postreformation period to the creation of the modern ecumenical movement
12. The historical-theological and socio-political context of the creation and development of the modern ecumenical movement
13. The major achievements, documents, and unresolved issues of the modern ecumenical movement (the ecumenical contributions of particular churches, and their various concepts of Church unity)
14. The distinctiveness of contemporary ecumenical issues in Croatia
15. Final discussion
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.
