Individual courses

Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?

Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?

This course introduces some of the key elements in Aristotle's thought. 

Christianity is an historical religion; it’s a religion about an historical event: Jesus' life, death and resurrection. But there may be conflicts between the pastoral and the historical points of view.

The present course covers the beginning of the modern period, from the 16 th to the 18 th century. This period, especially the 16 th century, is a turning point in the history of Western culture.

African Church History.

We will not engage on a history of the missionary movement in Africa but rather on a history of indigenous forms of Christianity – that is to say the forms of life inspired by Christianity that were accepted, adapted and spread by Africans.

SEM 41 - Archaeology and the Bible  

From 7th October to 30th November 2019

by Hervé Tremblay 

FROM 7TH OCTOBER 2019 TO 30TH NOVEMBER 2019. SEMINAR CLOSED

This course critically reviews early Christian and Byzantine art from the 2nd to 6th Century.

This course will look at some issues of theological controversy between East and West.

In the lives of the sains lifes " lives" the Christian vision of God, man, and the world which stand all​ out very clearly. Men can learn almost as much about the real meaning of Christianity from the legends of the saints produced within the tradition of the Church as from the authentic lives themselves. Through the reading and studying the lifes of the saints​ who arrived before us in the promised land​, we came to know how God works in the daily lives of Christians and how faith can be lived not only in good times but especially during persecution and suffering. This helps us to appreciate more our faith and make us grow in loving our brothers as part of God's providence.

The aim of this seminar is to cover the whole history of economic thought in all its diversity, i.e. not only the contribution of economics proper since it became an autonomous discipline at the end of the eighteenth century.

This seminar will take place online from October 5 to November 29, 2026

Like all movements, ecumenism had its beginnings and thus it has a history to be studied.

Plato ranks as one of the most important thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. This module introduces the student to some of the fundamental ideas that inform his works as well as guiding the student through some developments in his presentation of these ideas.

This seminar introduces key approaches to effective preaching through four complementary methods: message development, expository preaching, connecting Scripture with daily life, and narrative homiletics. Participants will gain practical tools to craft clear, engaging, and transformative sermons.

This Seminar will take place from October 4 to November 28, 2027.

This course is part of the book of Bieke Mahieu, Between Rome and Jerusalem. Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition: A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC-39 AD, with a Time Setting of New Testament Events. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 208. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.

Application of the Newmanian Criteriology on the Axiom "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus"

This course offers an introduction to the nature, purpose, and development of philosophy. It explores what philosophy is, why it has remained a central intellectual discipline, and how it relates to other fields of inquiry, particularly theology. Through an overview of its major areas and a study of its historical origins in ancient Greece, students are introduced to the fundamental questions that have shaped philosophical reflection. The course also examines the figure of Socrates, whose life and thought continue to define the philosophical vocation as a pursuit of truth, wisdom, and critical inquiry.

The Second Vatican Council, a pastoral Council; which, according to Pope John XXIII, had the concern, “that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.”