Academics

Please note that all students must have application materials onfile to be eligible to enroll in any courses.  Registration payments must be made at the time of enrollment.

The following courses have been cancelled for Fall 2011 Distance Learning students:

PHTH617 Theology & Science

STD911 Intro to History of Christian Spirituality

PHL648 Analytic Philosophy

Seminarians & Lay

Book List     - Revised 8/18/2011

On-campus & Commuter Students

Course Information Packet Spring 2012

Distance Learning Students

Distance Learning Course Registration Form Fall 2011

Distance Learning New Course Offerings Fall 2011

Distance Learning Required Materials List Fall 2011

Distance Learning Information Packet Fall 2011

***Please note there have been some changes to the Required Materials list for the Fall 2011 semester. 

1.  This is the required information for STM652:

     STM652 Moral Theology: Biblical Foundations (Fr. Luis Luna, MSA)

• Lecture series: DVD/CD (International Catholic University) order direct from Holy Apostles $65
• Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. Living the Truth in Love: A Biblical Introduction to Moral Theology, Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1996. The course is based on this book and for additional readings its bibliography is very extensive. ISBN 0-8189-0756-8 [Available in paperback from Amazon] List price $ 19.72
• Raymond E. Brown. Responses to 101 Questions on the Bible, New York, Paulist, 2003. ISBN 0-8091-4251-1[Available in paperback from Amazon] List price $ 12.95

2.  Fr. Hillier's course STD626: The Spiritual Life is not being offered the Fall 2011 semester.  In it's place is PHTH614 Spirituality & Asceticism taught by Fr. Luke Dysinger.

3.  Fr. Pothier's STM701: Canon Law course requires an additional course packet of articles which is an additional $42.00.

4.  This is the required information for PHTH617:

     PHTH617 Theology & Science (Dr. Hoonhout)

• Ian G. Barbour, When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? (New York: HarperOne, 2000).
•   Stephen M. Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).
• John F. Haught, Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).
•   David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and Science (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986).

Excerpted Texts (provided by the professor):

• a) Pope John Paul II, “Address at the Vatican Observatory, June 1, 1988,” in John Paul II on Science and Religion: Reflections on the New View from Rome, ed. by Robert Russell, et al (Vatican Observatory Publications, 1990), pp. M1-M14.
• b) Ernst Mayr, “What is Science?” & “How Does Science Explain the Natural World?”
• c) Avery Dulles, “Science and Theology,” in Russell, et al., John Paul II on Science and Religion, 9-18.
• d) Michael A. Hoonhout, “Thomas Aquinas and the Need for a Contemporary Theological Cosmology

5. PHTH500: The Nature of Love course has a book entitled The Heart by Von Hildebrand that's currently listed on our form at $68. Since the book isn't required until the second half of the course, Dr. Chervin would like students to know they can back-order the $24 version of the book on September 6 from http://www.staugustine.net/theheart.html.