TRS 136 - Saints Yesterday and Today

Upper Division

Prerequisites
TRS 097 or TRS 189.

We often think of Saints as exceptionally holy people, but they were first of all flesh-and-blood human beings like each of us. Every religious tradition has them-men and women who, beyond the ordinariness of life’s circumstances, lived extraordinary lives or did extraordinary things. And so we venerate them because they have become heroes, models, examples, and mediators between ourselves and God whom they now see face to face. In this course we will encounter Saints and saints-ancient, modern, hidden, popular, unknown, heroic-and explore their lives in history, in devotion, in literature, in art, and in the tradition of the Church.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
TE - Theological Explorations

Course credits: 1