Somo la 1
An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion
Assigned: the Introduction, pages 1–33 (the whole of it). Read to learn how religions may be described carefully before Christian evaluation.
Kusoma mitazamo tofauti ya kiteolojia. Masomo ya kihistoria yanaeleza mitazamo ya waandishi wake, ikiwemo mapokeo ya Kiarminiani na ya Kireformed au ya Kikalvini. Kujumuishwa hakufanyi msimamo wa mwandishi kuwa fundisho thabiti la CTS. Soma pamoja na Maandiko na nyenzo zilizopangwa. Jibu lenye hoja kutoka mtazamo mwingine wa kiinjili linapaswa kupimwa kwa hoja zake, si kuadhibiwa kwa sababu tu linatofautiana na mwandishi. Ikiwa alama ya kompyuta inakataa jibu kama hilo, omba CTS ilipitie.
Masomo Yaliyopangwa ya Uzamili (yote matano)
Wanafunzi wa M.Div. na Th.M. husoma masomo yote matano yaliyopangwa na kufanya mtihani wake tofauti baada ya kuanzishwa. Ukurasa wa mtihani unaeleza kanuni ya sasa; ukamilishaji halali wa awali unabaki halali.
Heshima ya Hiari (chagua matatu)
Heshima ni ya hiari kwa kila programu. Wanafunzi wa Cheti na wa Shahada ya Mshiriki wanaweza kusoma masomo matatu ya heshima bila mtihani wa masomo ya lazima. Heshima haichukui nafasi ya mtihani wowote wa Uzamili.
CTS graduate reading requirement. M.Div. and Th.M. students complete these five assigned readings and the separate required-reading test. Certificate and Associate students may use the readings and the test optionally, as a learning opportunity.
These readings belong to World Religions, catalog course 44. They are not the Supplemental Reading Room of this course, which stays as it is for honors reading, and they are not the Reading Room for Cults & World Religions, catalog course 26. The Master's examination covers these five historical readings, not the CTS digests in the Supplemental Reading Room.
Somo la 2
Comparative Religion
Assigned: Chapters I, II, VII and VIII. Give attention to both similarities and real theological differences.
Somo la 3
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
Assigned: Chapter I, §§1–4; Chapter III, §§6, 8–9; Chapter IV, §§3–4, 7–9; Chapter XI, §§3, 5–6. The online edition has no printed page numbers, so follow Clarke's chapter and § numbers. Treat the work as a historical Christian comparative text; distinguish the author's nineteenth-century judgments from current CTS descriptions where necessary.
Somo la 4
Representative Primary Texts
Assigned selections: the Qur'an (Rodwell), Suras 112, 19 and 99; the Bhagavad-Gita (Arnold), Chapters III, XII and XVIII; the Dhammapada (Müller), Chapter XX, verses 273–289. The purpose is to hear traditions in representative primary voices rather than only through Christian summaries.
Somo la 5
The Crown of Hinduism
Assigned: Introduction, §§III–IV; Chapter V, §§I–III; Chapter X, §§III–IV; Chapter XI, §V. Read critically and respectfully: learn the religious longings the author identifies, then evaluate his Christian fulfillment argument in light of the course.
When you have read the five: take the required-reading test — twenty fill-in-the-blank questions drawn from forty, eighteen right to pass. It is on a page of its own, so these readings are not open beside it.