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DMIN 933 - The Bible as Living Space

3 credits
In popular culture the Bible is often touted and treated as a one-directional communication from the divine to the human realm. But even a cursory encounter with the Bible’s multi-vocality and historically constrained content reveals the Bible to be a complicated resource for theology and ethics. In this course we work with a different metaphor for biblical revelation coined by renowned Jewish philosopher Emanuel Levinas: the Bible as “living space.” We will explore how overly familiar passages and even the most ethically challenging texts can become “nourishing terrain” for theological and moral reflection on some of our most pressing contemporary issues.


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