Code
Undergraduate: CT3011W (Classroom) or CT3711W (Online)
Postgraduate: CT9011W (Classroom) or CT9711W (Online)
Postgraduate: CT9011W (Classroom) or CT9711W (Online)
Level
Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Discipline
Systematic Theology (CT)
Field
Christian Thought and History (C)
Prerequisites
Undergraduate: 36 points (two standard units) in CT
Postgraduate: 48 points (two standard units) in CT
Postgraduate: 48 points (two standard units) in CT
Online
Yes
Faculty
Jason Goroncy view profile >
Class Time
Three hours per week
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
Undergraduate
- Identify and analyse a variety of ways that the Western and Christian theological traditions have thought about death.
- Critically evaluate such understandings in light of and in conversation with other resources employed by Christian theology.
- Articulate a coherent theological response to the question ‘What is death?’
Postgraduate
- Identify and analyse a variety of ways that the Western tradition and Christian theological traditions have thought about death.
- Critically evaluate such understandings in light of and in conversation with other resources employed by Christian theology.
- Articulate a coherent theological response to the question ‘What is death?’
- Identify, critique and develop responses to questions surrounding death raised in contemporary culture.
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Assessment
Undergraduate
Classroom:
- Online forum (1,000 words) (25%)
- Seminar paper (1,000 words) (25%)
- Essay (3,000 words) (50%)
Online:
- Online forum (1,500 words) (25%)
- Two online tests (1,000 words) (20%)
- Essay (3,000 words) (50%)
Postgraduate
Classroom:
- Online forum (2,000 words) (25%)
- Seminar paper (1,000 words) (25%)
- Essay (4,500 words) (50%)
Online:
- Online forum (2,000 words) (25%)
- Online presentation (equivalent to 1,000 words) (25%)
- Essay (4,500 words) (50%)
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Recommended reading
- Anderson, Ray S. Theology, Death and Dying. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
- Ariès, Philippe. The Hour of our Death. Translated by Helen Weaver. New York: Knopf, 1981.
- Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press, 1973.
- Davies, Douglas. A Brief History of Death. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
- Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1962.
- Jüngel, Eberhard. Death: The Riddle and the Mystery. Translated by Iain Nicol and Ute Nicol. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1975.
- Kagan, Shelly. Death. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
- May, Todd. Death. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014.
- Novello, Henry L. Death as Transformation: A Contemporary Theology of Death. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
- Plato. The Last Days of Socrates. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant. London: Penguin, 2003.
- Rose, Gillian. Love’s Work. London: Chatto & Windus, 1995.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. On the Shortness of Life. Translated by Charles D. N. Costa. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2005.
- Thielicke, Helmut. Death and Life. Translated by Edward H. Schroeder. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1970.
- Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Set texts recommended for purchase: Nil