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Handing on the Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Kathleen McGovern Gaffney*
Affiliation:
Xavier University of Louisiana

Abstract

The undergraduate course described introduces the academic study of religion. It summarizes basic Christian teaching on God, Salvation, Jesus Christ, Trinity, Church and Sacraments, Eschatology; promotes objective intellectual reflection on basic Christian teachings and on the religious experience that inspired them; introduces the student to academic religious literature, promotes informed dialogue among students of various religious traditions.

Type
Creative Teaching
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1981

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