A 2014 course by David DeCosse at Santa Clara University uses selections from the Summa Theologica to survey Thomas’s theology and ethics.
A 2007 course by S.M. Cohen at the University of Washington introduces the thought of pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
A course by Alfred Freddoso at the University of Notre Dame is designed ” to see in some depth the relation among the main elements of St. Thomas’s general moral theory as laid out in the First Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, viz., the treatises on beatitude, action, passion, habit, virtue, sin, law, and grace, and (b) to explore in more detail certain specific aspects of these treatises.” The distinctions between Aquinas’ moral theory and deontologism and consequentialism are also discussed.
A 2002 course by Amir Hussain and Crerar Douglas at California State University, Northridge, includes “a close reading of Blake’s biography . . . [and] the art and poetry that he created.”
A course by Michael Zank at Boston University “covers major sources in the modern Continental philosophical conversation on the philosophy of religion focusing on the writings of Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard.”
A 2010 course by Alexander Hwang at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary introduces “to the lives and thoughts of four significant medieval theologians each representing a different medieval context: Prosper of Aquitaine (380-455), Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Thomas Aquinas (1225- 74), and Julian of Norwich (1342-1423).” Special emphasis is “on the theme of grace and freedom, with attention to how these theologians integrate practice and belief, spirituality and theology.”
A 2012 course by Charles Bellinger at Brite Divinity School “addresses key themes in the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, with a view to the place of his ideas within modern moral philosophy.”
A 2002 course by K. I. Koppedrayer at Wilfrid Laurier University “is a study of Gandhi, the man, and Gandhi, the myth. It is about colonial India and the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi, his struggles for personal freedom and for a free India. It is also about our memory of Gandhi.”
A 2009 course by Michael Andres at Northwestern College offers a “study of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, as well as a survey of other varieties of Reformed theology, including later Calvinism.”
A 2011 course by Bryan Stone at Boston University School of Theology examines “the primary doctrinal, methodological, and practical commitments of John Wesleyâs theology as developed in his sermons, hymns, writings, and life-praxis. . . . [as well as] contemporary trends in Methodism and in Wesleyan theology . . . .”
