TRS 753E Personality and Religious Development

• Class: TRS 753E Personality and Religious Development
• Professor: Rev. Raymond Studzinski, O.S.B., PhD
• Taken: Spring 2017
• Description:

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Syllabus

Required Reading:

• Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith, Vaillant

• Bryan, Jocelyn Human Being: Insights from Psychology and the Christian Faith, Bryan

• Spiritual formation in emerging adulthood : a practical theology for college and young adult ministry, Setran, Kiesling

• Capps, Donald. The Decades of Life: A Guide to Human Development. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. ISBN 9780664232412. Paper $24.95

• Schweitzer, Friedrich L. The Postmodern Life Cycle: Challenges for Church and Theology. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004. ISBN 9780827229983. Paper $22.00

• Setran, David P.; and Chris A. Kiesling. Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. ISBN 9780801039560. Paper $16.25

• Swinton, John, and Richard Payne, eds. Living Well and Dying Faithfully: Christian Practices for End-of-Life Care. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009. ISBN 9780802863393. Paper. $28.00

• Select Articles from: Toward Moral and Religious Maturity: The First International Conference on Moral and Religious Development. Ed. by James Fowler and Antoine Vergote. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett, 1980. (Posted on Blackboard Documents Section)

Terms

• Spirituality: The amalgam of the positive emotions that bind us to other human beings - and to our experience of "God" as we may understand Her/Him. Love, hope, joy, forgiveness, compassion, faith, awe, and gratitude are the spiritually important positive emotions" From * Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith, Vaillant