RELS 266 Jesus, Violence, and the Kingdom of Peace

This course explores the place of violence and peace within Jesus’s ministry, and the implications of this for followers of Jesus today. In particular, it will examine how Jesus responded to contemporary expectations about how God’s kingdom would come and how he would participate in that event. The course will demonstrate the centrality of peace to Jesus’s vision of the kingdom and peacemaking to the identity of his disciples, and reflect on the importance of this for contemporary Christian practice.

Notes: 3 credits
Prerequisites: RELS 101 OT Survey, RELS 102 NT Survey, and RELS 160 Intro to Christian Theology