To: Clergy, DREs, Bulletin Editors, Principals, Campus Ministers
From: Msgr. Edward J. Dillon, Chancellor, Holy Spirit College
Registration is currently underway for our 2019 summer classes. To register, please contact Kim Schulman at kschulman@holyspiritcollege.org. The following courses will be offered:
THEO 695 – A Catholic Approach to Science
Tuesday evenings, May 14 – June 25
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Holy Spirit College, Malta Hall
Dr. Randal Mandock
Course Description: St. Augustine in his commentary on the first three chapters of Genesis, warned Christians not to try to explain theology by means of the natural sciences (knowledge of the natural world held “as being certain from reason and experience”), nor to explain the natural sciences using theology. Each field of knowledge must be pursued in accordance with the methods proper to itself. The saint in this seminal work laid out the boundaries between the human sciences and the sacred sciences. This class will explore the distinctive natures, methods, and results of scientific versus theological approaches to understanding the created universe. Topics will include the nature of science and religion; science and miracles in the Bible; the uniqueness of Earth’s environment; Galileo and his precursors; and the nature of the human person. (Audit fee $150; $735 for credit — students may obtain 1.5 hours of credit for additional meetings and assignments, in consultation with the College).
THEO 600 – Liturgy and Sacraments
Wednesday evenings, May 15 – August 21
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Holy Spirit College, Malta Hall
Fr. Paul Burke
Course Description: The liturgical life of the Church, especially as it unfolds in the celebration of the seven sacraments, will be explored in this course. Consideration will be given to the development and theology of the Christian liturgy in both the East and the West, with emphasis upon the Roman Rite. The threefold relationship between liturgy, Christian theology, and anthropology will be examined, along with the role of liturgy in the life of the believer and in the life of the Church. The course will also investigate the seven Sacraments as instituted by Christ and as understood in Scripture and Tradition. Questions of minister, recipient, form, matter, and effect will all be examined, together with the relationship between the Sacraments and the Paschal Mystery, the economy of salvation, and the mission of the Church. The Vatican II constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium will be studied as well as relevant passages from Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae. (3 credit hours; $1,470 for credit; audit fee $300).
THEO 695 – Sacred Spaces: Christian Art and Architecture from the 2nd to the 11th Century
Tuesday evenings, July 9 – August 20
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Holy Spirit College, Malta Hall
Dr. Lisa Street
Course Description: This course will follow a chronological, city-centered examination of Church art and architecture through Rome, Jerusalem, Ravenna, Constantinople, Milan, and Venice. Topics will include catacomb paintings and sarcophagi; the Church of the Nativity; the first monasteries in the Egyptian desert; illustrated manuscripts; mosaics of San Vitale; influences of scholastic theology; St. Mark’s domes, altars, and icons; among others. (Audit fee $150; $735 for credit — students may obtain 1.5 hours of credit for additional meetings and assignments, in consultation with the College).