Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decree that resulted from their concern is no wholesale syllabus of sexual depravities. Instead, it singles out those "erroneous opinions" that Rome considers are spreading and causing confusion in the ranks of the faithful. Three areas of sexuality that have caused particular difficulties for Catholics-as indeed for many other Christians-are given major treatment...
Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...
...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...
Instead the department voted to allow graduate students to use a course in Marxian economic history to meet part of their history requirement, included some more radical readings on its theory syllabus, and gave first priority to the hiring of a Marxian assistant professor next year--pretty weak medicine, the reformers said...
...committee report went on to recommend that two Faculty appointments be made to staff this course with people "whose primary teaching and research will adequately reflect the approaches represented in the [proposed course] syllabus...