Individual courses

This course introduces students to the philosophy of law by examining the nature, purpose, and justification of legal systems and their relationship to morality, politics, and society.

This course introduces philosophy as a rigorous academic discipline concerned with fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, and human life.

This course introduces the two great founders of Western philosophy through their complementary approaches. The first part explores Plato’s thought, focusing on the search for truth, virtue, the immortality of the soul, and the Theory of Forms, while highlighting the central role of Socrates, dialogue, and dialectical inquiry.

The course aims at furnishing the student withe the appropriate tools for a meaningful of the Biblical text, with particular reference to its spiritual, liturgical and pastoral context. The course will further aim at providing a basis familiarity with, and a critical assessment of contemporary exegetical methods.

An introduction to the Life, Epistles and Theology of Saint Paul.

The Gospel of Mark is distinctive within the New testament. It may be the oldest Gospel, but it post-dates some of Paul’s letters, from which we already have a good picture of the preaching of Peter and Paul. Mark paints Jesus in down to earth human form, willing to change his mind, vulnerable to the opinions of others, and especially those of the ones who opposed him.

All the Bibles, either Hebrew or Catholic or Protestant or Orthodox, agree on the first part of the Biblical Canon, that is the Pentateuch.

This course helps us to get in touch and explore with the this 16th century religious movement the originated in western Europe over against the prevailing Roman Catholicism.

How are the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke interrelated? Did Matthew and Luke both use a written source 'Q' and Mark, when composing their Gospels? Did they each have their own sources as well? 

This course introduces you to the debates about the meaning of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke/Acts. What were the theological interests of the authors of the Synoptic Gospels?

What is the Jesus presented in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke like? How did he understand himself? How did the Evangelists understand him? Is that the same or different to the understanding of the disciples?

This course will provide a general introduction to Theology.

This course offers a structured introduction to the foundations of Islam, covering the main articles of Sunni Muslim faith and the religious practices that form its framework. 

This course presents the foundations and principal schools of Islamic theology (kalām) between the eighth and fourteenth centuries. 

This course offers an advanced introduction to contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of science through a critical examination of scepticism, epistemic justification, and the nature of scientific knowledge. 

A Systematic Review and Hermeneutic Exploration of the Management of Incidental Findings in Genomic Research

In order to have a better understanding of Dupuis’ viewpoints, the study will put side-by-side Dupuis’ ideas and those of pluralism, exclusivism and inclusivism. For this reason, the three approaches to the theology of religions will be briefly discussed. Likewise, the study also briefly presents the understanding of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) concerning the issues raised.

The Unique and Universal Mediation of Jesus Christ in Relation to the Theology of Religions

Students will be introduced to the methods known as Rhetorical Biblical Criticism and Theological Criticism of the Bible.

This course offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of John Locke’s philosophy by closely integrating his political thought and epistemology through the study of his major works, particularly Two Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.