Aug 02, 2025  
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RST 268 - One Jesus, Many Portraits: Christology

Three Credits
Every Other Spring

For two thousand years, people have been trying to put into words who Jesus of Nazareth is.  This class aims to introduce students to many of the portraits that have been offered throughout history, attentive to how the social setting and identity of the “artist” has helped determine the resulting portrait of the one Jesus.  The first half of the class will cover the New Testament; the second will proceed historically through Chalcedon till today.

General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Moral Inquiry
Course Applies to: Elective course in the major or minor.