RELS 366 - Theology of the Body | 2025-2026

Academic Year
2025-2026
Course Credits
3.00
Course ID
RELS 366
Course Name
Theology of the Body
Description
This course reviews the roots and evolution of the modern secular approaches to anthropology and human sexuality and contrast them with those of Christ. This course examines recent developments in theological reflection on the body (John Paul II's theology of the body) and provides a general introduction to Christian anthropology, with particular attention to themes such as creation in the imago Dei, fall and redemption, nature and grace, freedom and rationality, gender and vocation. Due note of convergent and divergent doctrinal positions held by various Christian traditions of the themes are reviewed.
NB
Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre
Prerequisite(s)
RELS 105 or 110 (3-0).