A certain number of specialist courses from the list (below) are conducted in each academic year.
List of specialist courses
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course and its objectives
2. The issue of the role of New Testament theology
3. The issues related to the quest for the historical Jesus
4. The issues imposed by the cannon of the New Testament
5. The issue of the "center" in Paul's theology, and the "New Perspective"
6. Sociological approach and the issues related to the "Reader Response"; issues of the reevaluation of doctrines
7. Liberation Theology; feminist and womanist theology; the challenge of contextual theologies
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introductory lecture
2. The history of the Protestant charismatic movement on a global level
3. The history of the Catholic charismatic movement on a global level
4. Charismatic renewal in systematic-theological and pastoral-theological perspective (biblicaltheological frameworks of charismatic renewal movements; charismatic renewal as an internal movement of a Church, and as a movement that transcends the limits of (more) traditional Churches; charismatic renewal and pluralism/individualism/community)
5. Contemporary Protestant charismatic movements in Croatia and (more) traditional protestant Churches
6. Contemporary Catholic charismatic movement in Croatia and the official Catholic church in Croatia
7. The scopes, limitations, and potentials of charismatic movements as ecumenical and interreligious junctions
8. The scopes, limitations, and potentials of charismatic movements as social junctions
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Basic resources for understanding the relationship between politics and ecumenism in the context of the Western Balkans
2. The political environment and the beginnings of ecumenical movements in the context of the Western Balkans
3. Politics and ecumenism: the situation before the breakup of Yugoslavia
4. Politics and ecumenism: the period of war in former Yugoslavia I
5. Politics and ecumenism: the period of war in former Yugoslavia II
6. Politics and ecumenism: the period after the war in former Yugoslavia
7. Political issues and contemporary ecumenical efforts in the context of the Western Balkans
8. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, the resources, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. The concept, creation, basis, main characteristics, and tasks of intersectional theology
3. The concept, creation, basis, main characteristics, and tasks of public theology
4. Introduction to feminist intersectional and public theology
5. Exercise: theological evaluation of the intersectionality of one's own identity and experience
6. Exercise: interdisciplinary evaluation of gender stereotypes
7. Exercise: formulating arguments for a public discussion on gender stereotypes
8. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course: Flacius’s time
2. Flacius’s life path and the main theological disputes in which he was involved
3. Introduction to the Magdeburg Centuries: goals, methodology, sources
4. Student presentations
5. Student presentations
6. Student presentations
7. Conclusions
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Basic theological texts related to hermeneutics of political liberation
2. Basic texts from other humanities related to hermeneutics of political liberation
3. The concept and nature of political theology and political religion
4. A political reading of the Gospels
5. Theory and praxis of the so-called New Political Theology
6. Theory and praxis of the so-called Liberation Theology
7. Contemporary currents in hermeneutics of political liberation
8. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. Public theology I – the history and definition
3. Public theology II – methodological premises
4. Theological preconditions of public theology
5. Social and political community: concepts and analyses
6. Pluralism and the variety of cultural expressions
7. Public theology and the social engagement of theologians
8. Review and final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, the resources, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. Biblical witness of the Last Supper/Eucharist
3. The genesis of the controversy of the Last Supper/Eucharist I
4. The genesis of the controversy of the Last Supper/Eucharist II
5. The principal documents of the contemporary ecumenical dialogue related to the Last Supper/Eucharist I
6. The principal documents of the contemporary ecumenical dialogue related to the Last Supper/Eucharist II
7. The causal relationship between the controversy of the Last Supper/Eucharist and other controversial issues of ecumenical dialogue
8. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course and its objectives
2. Opus Lucanum
3. Analysis of Acts 1:15-22
4. Analysis of Acts 2:14-39
5. Analysis of Acts 2:14-39
6. Analysis of Acts 3:12-26
7. Analysis of Acts 3:12-36
8. Analysis of Acts 4:8-12
9. Analysis of Acts 5:29-32
10. Analysis of Acts 10:34-43
11. Analysis of Acts 11:5-17
12. Analysis of Acts 15:7-11
13. Analysis of Gal 2:1-10
14. Analysis of Gal 2:11-14
15. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Definition of the philosophy of religion, its goals, methods, and basic concepts
2. Philosophical discourse on religion in Greek philosophy and the Christian middle ages
3. Philosophy of religion as a separate discipline: Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel
4. Contemporary philosophy of religion: major authors and directions
5. Major issues of contemporary philosophy of religion: religious language and experience
6. Major issues of philosophy of religion: religious pluralism
7. Final discussion and review
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course, the resources, the requirements, and the grading structure
2. Historical development of human rights
3. Human rights in particular religions
4. Human rights and religious rights in key international documents
5. Various political regimes and religious rights
6. Religious rights of majority and minority religions and church-state relations
7. National and international courts and religious rights
8. Religious and other human rights
9. Empirical research on religious rights
10. Final discussion
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. What is sociological exegesis?
2. The urban environment of Paul's Christianity and the urban environment of Philippi
3. Social levels of Paul's Christianity and prosopographic research of Paul's readers in Philippi
4. The Church and its creation (the example of Philippi)
5. The mutual influence of ecclesiological and sociological processes
6. Rituals in Paul's early Christian communities
7. The patterns of faith in the church in Philippi
ECTS credits: 2
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course: overview of the content, introduction to the resources and requirements
2. Defining and describing the concept of "spiritual experience"
3. Individual subjectivity of spiritual experience and the efforts to objectify it
4. Universal (common) features of spiritual experience / spiritual experiences
5. Differentiating between "spiritual syncretism" and "spiritual identity"
6. Spiritual identity as the precondition of complementary encounters, respect, and spiritual growth
7. The semantic content of the terms "ecumenical dialogue" and "interreligious dialogue"
8. Existing ecumenical and interreligious structures and their spiritual cooperation on national, European, and global levels (CEC, CCEE, WCC, Religion for peace, etc.)
ECTS credits: 5
Weekly class hours: 1
Course Content
1. Introduction to the course: Definition of concepts and the differentiation between pastoral and practical theology
2. Pastoral reflection of ecclesial-public activities of Christian Churches (contextual theology)
3. Political diaconia in the context of capitalism and secularization
4. Crucial issues and challenges of the diaconial activities of Christian communities in Croatia, with regard to shared responsibility and social ethics
5. Diaconia as the basic option for Christian activities: integrational model of theology and social engagement
6. Diaconia and new forms of pastoral work
7. Volunteering as the Christian form of serving the common good
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