Course Schedule

Theology & Ministry Courses

As part of its mission and commitment to serve as an educational resource for the Catholic community as well as the wider Christian community of the southeast, Spring Hill College offers a blended program with a minimum of classroom experiences at two sites: Mobile, AL and Atlanta, GA.

Level 1 (L1) courses are taught online and require students to attend one (1) in-classroom meeting at either the Mobile or the Atlanta campus. Level 2 (L2) courses are taught fully online. Graduate Seminars are one (1) credit, weekend courses offered in both Mobile and Atlanta.

Spring 2019: February 11-April 21

THL507 (352) Christian Social Ethics: War and Peace (L1)  (M)
Dr. Matthew Bagot
(Class Meetings:  Mar 16 – Mobile;  Mar 23 – Atlanta)
Required Text(s):
      • Fisher, David. Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century?
      • Kelsay, John. Arguing the Just War in Islam.
      • Musto, Ronald G. The Catholic Peace Tradition.
      • Philpott, Daniel. Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation.
THL532 (332) The Johannine Gospel and Epistles (L2)  (B)
Dr. Timothy Carmody
Required Text(s):
      • Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0300140150.

      • Schneiders, Sandra. Written that You May Believe. Revised Ed. New York: Crossroad, 2003. ISBN: 0-8245-1926-4.

THL580 Graduate Seminar: Vatican II: Church and World in Conversation  (H)
Dr. Alan McGill
Atlanta: Mar 9, 10:00am-4:00pm
Required Text(s):
      • O’Malley, John W. What Happened at Vatican II. ISBN: 978-067-4047495.

Summer 2019: May 13-August 11

THL503 (386) The Synoptic Gospels (B)
Dr. Timothy Carmody

(Fully Online)

THL574 Inter-Religious Dialogue (M)

Dr. Matthew Bagot
(See the Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality page for more information.)

Fall 2019: August 26-November 25

THL502 (343) Theology of Sacrament (L1)  (S/H)
Fr. Christopher Viscardi, S.J.

(Class Meetings:  Oct 26 – Mobile;  Nov 2 – Atlanta)

THL520 Theological Research Methods (Required Core Course)
Dr. John Switzer
(Fully Online)

THL533 (333) The Pauline Letters and Theology (L2)  (B)  
Dr. Timothy Carmody

Spring 2020: January 13-April 20

THL510 Introduction to Practical Theology (L1)  (P)
TBA

THL521 (441) Eucharist (L2)  (P/S/H)
Dr. Stephen Wilson

Summer 2020

THL554 (350) Catholic Social Thought (L2)  (M)
Dr. Matthew Bagot

THL TBA
(3 credit course offered in the Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality.)


KEY

THL=Theology Course; SPT=Spirituality Course

B=Biblical Theology; H=Historical Theology; S=Systematic Theology; M=Moral Theology; P=Pastoral Theology

Course numbers in parentheses are undergraduate numbers for the CTS program.