TH 210 - Fundamental Doctrines and their Development

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: None

• Explain the relationship between faith and reason.
• Explain the relationship between faith and theology.
• Demonstrate your understanding of the importance of revelation as God’s self-communication to the world.
• Recognize the difference between the traditional Christian thinking about God and the modern confusions that lead to agnosticism and atheism.
• Describe why grace and freedom are both essential elements of the Catholic faith.
• List the reasons why the interpretation of the Bible within the Church is neither fundamentalism nor rationalism.
• Describe the inseparability of the message of Jesus and his identity as the Word of God.
• Name the key historical moments in the development of the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity.
• List the reasons why the Church and her sacraments are an essential dimension of God’s saving action in the world.