THEO 371 - Bibl Spiritualities of Suffering

3 Credit Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Laboratory Hours

This course will dive deeply into biblical texts to consider how specific religious subjects in the scriptures experienced suffering and reflected on their faith and theology in contexts of extremity. We will then put these biblical periscopes into conversation with contemporary issues of suffering and events of extremity. Through lecture, discussion, and meditation on specific concerns of contemporary theodicy, we will consider the theological implication of God’s silence in the midst of horrors depicted in Scripture and ways that people of faith can approach sacred narratives that show practices of faith and resistance in the face of violence, grief, racism, poverty, conflict, and injustice.

Prerequisites: THEO 133.