Religious Exclusivism and the Concept of Christian Monotheism

Course Information
TitleΗ θρησκευτική αποκλειστικότητα και η έννοια του χριστιανικού μονοθεϊσμού / Religious Exclusivism and the Concept of Christian Monotheism
Code2129
FacultyTheology
SchoolTheology
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorIoannis Kourempeles
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID600000015

Programme of Study: Anamorfōméno PPS Tmīmatos THeologías (2023-2024)

Registered students: 9
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesSpring-3

Class Information
Academic Year2021 – 2022
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600205979
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Examination)
  • French (Examination)
  • German (Instruction, Examination)
  • Italian (Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: -Record contemporary literature -Compare relationships of different points of view that are expressed in terms of understanding the religious phenomenon -Approach critically and based on Orthodox theology principles some views related to understanding the religious phenomenon -Aknowledge and value onto-theology significane within the context of science of Theology
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Respect natural environment
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Onto-theology is the main axis-terminoloy of this course. This mode of theology values the enypostatic assembly of knowledge with experience in the open body of the Word of God as expressed in the patristic tradition and as such, it can be present today in dialoge. The enypostatic incarnation of the Word of God is considered to be the center for the integration of human individualities. In the dialogue of religions, the "enypostaton" gets a new meaning, implying that there is no human nature that is religiously non-existent, as far as the metaphysical element in humans is inherently obvious and universally accepted. The issue of the exclusivity of monotheism is a great concern among western theologians, such as J. Ratzinger and H. Vorgrimler, who stand critically against the phenomenon of religious pluralism, in particular against the reduction of Christian completeness, as far as the person of Christ is regarded. The text of the Roman Catholic Church Dominus Jesus and its opposition to the theory of religious relativism are also examined. The comprehensive pluralism of theologizing in Orthodoxy with main reference to the open divine-human body, that embraces the whole humanity called, is the meeting point of religiosity with en-christianized theology. This genuine paradoxical theology, that is examined in this course, sets as a reference point to the affectation of humanity by the en-naturalized (in it) God-man, which remains even today the most beneficial universal mystery. Finally, the proposal of the course could be concentrated on the fact that the holy spiritual "ontology of patristic theology" is sought after by contemporary religiosity too, as far as the believers continuously manage, in a ascetic way, their co-enypostatic concurrence in the catholic place of ecumenical God-humanity and not the division and lack of freedom of man and their world.
Keywords
Theology, Religion, Absolutization, Relativization
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Video lectures
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures391.6
Reading Assigment251
Written assigments90.4
Exams20.1
Total753
Student Assessment
Description
Oral exams and written works under certain conditions.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Ιωάννης Κουρεμπελές, Θεολογία και Θρησκεία εν μέσω απολυτοποίησης και σχετικοποίησης, εκδ. Κυριακίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη 2014
Additional bibliography for study
P. MISCHE-M. MERKLING, Global Civilisation? Τhe Contribution of Religions, New York, 2001. L. BOFF, Holy Trini-ty, Perfect Community, Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 2000. M. LΑCUGNA, God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life, New York, NY: Hartper Collins 1991. Th. J. SCIRGHI, The Trinity: A Model for Belonging in Contemporary Society, in: The Ecumeni-cal Review 54 (2002) σ. 333-342.
Last Update
14-10-2020