Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Johnny Buckles (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Law And Society/ Interdisciplinary
Time: 2:30p-4:00p TTH Location: 312
Course Outline: The goals of this course are (i) to introduce students to selected topics in the study of theology that conceptually parallel specific subjects in law and legal philosophy; (ii) to expand students’ understanding of how theological thought can inform legal inquiry, and how legal thought can inform theological inquiry; and (iii) to increase students’ awareness and enhance students’ comprehension of the variety of historical and contemporary approaches to resolving problems that have arisen in theological and legal thought.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: For Tuesday, please read McGrath (the assigned book) at pages 83-103 and the Oxford Dictionary entry, the Cohen essay, and the Markham entry (from the supplemental materials appearing on the professor’s UHLC faculty web page, for Law and Theology Weeks 1 & 2, here: https://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/jbuckles/). For Thursday, please read the George and Alschuler articles (from the supplemental materials). (In the supplemental materials appearing on the professor’s faculty web page, simply disregard the assignment “cover” pages from Fall 2020. The assignments will be updated periodically.) In addition, please be prepared to respond to questions from the discussion guides (to be distributed separately by email) that correspond to the daily assignments.
Final Exam Schedule: 5/7/2024 3-6 312
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction (6th ed. 2017).
