THST 3261 Voluntary and Involuntary Poverty

4 semester hours

This course will explore the phenomenon of “being poor” in different religious and non-religious contexts with the goal of understanding how poverty can both undermine and advance the human good. The course will examine what human good(s) poverty violates and what justifies those goods as “goods,” especially in light of the claim–present in many religious traditions, and, especially, the Catholic monastic tradition–that poverty, properly understood, can constitute a good itself.

University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason.