Axel M. Oaks Takacs, Th.D.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology and Interreligious Studies


Curriculum vitae


takacsax [at] shu dot edu


Department of Religion

Seton Hall University



Islamic and Christian Perspectives on Faith, Reason, & Imagination



This course explores Islamic and Christian perspectives on faith, reason, and the imagination through a comparative theological lens. Theological themes in comparison includes the nature of God (Trinity, the Divine Names), scripture and revelation, prophethood, the functions and roles of Jesus and Mary, spirituality/ mystical theology, affective approaches to God (love and desire), poetry, salvation and liberation, and the meaning of suffering. We will also explore the role of experience, history, the sciences, epistemologies, and community in religious reflection, the prospects for a common morality (i.e., revealed knowledge and natural knowledge), and the shape and significance of sin, grace, revelation, free will, and imagination.
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