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This course engages the thought of Karl Barth, arguably the most important Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. While we will deal with some of Barth’s early work – specifically, The Word of God and Theology and the second edition of Epistle to the Romans – our primary focus will be the Church Dogmatics. Topics considered include the role of the Bible in theological reflection, theological epistemology, the doctrine of God, election, Christian ethics and political life, the human being, sin and...

This course examines and evaluates Hegel’s thought and its influence in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. In the first third of the course, we read from some of Hegel’s most important works: Introduction to the Philosophy of History, The Phenomenology of Spirit, and the 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. We then examine the reception and development of Hegel’s ideas, with particular attention to writings by Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, George Lukács, Walter Benjamin...