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Course Description

This course surveys the history of Christianity from the late first century to the eve of the Reformation. Doctrinal and ecclesial developments will be considered within wider cultural contexts, with special attention to different ways of interpreting the biblical witness to Christ and life in Christ, and how they contribute to a shared, yet dynamic, Christian theological heritage.

Professor

Kenneth Woo

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-person

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An introduction to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (with the Johannine Epistles), and Acts showing their significance in the Church and the world today. Special attention is given to the specific content of these books, to their genres and connections with ancient biography or history, to various theological and historical portraits of Jesus, and to the various methods used in critical study of the Gospels.

Professor

Tucker Ferda

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30-2:45 p.m., In-person

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This course is an introduction to the books of Genesis through Esther. The course will explore factors that gave rise to and helped shape this material, and it will focus on the canonical shape of the books and their contribution to the theology and life of the church.

Professor

Kimberly Russaw

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

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In this course students will be introduced to and practice a variety of spiritual disciplines, grounded in historic Christian spiritual traditions. Students will reflect on their own life of prayer, practice of vocational discernment, and begin developing the skills to lead communal spiritual practices.

This course description applies to both the fall and spring semesters of Spiritual Formation (SP110A and SP110B)—the readings and assignments are spread across two semesters, both of which must be taken for credit.

Professor

L. Roger Owens

Time
SP 110-A1 Spiritual Formation - Odd Weeks Wednesday, 8:30-9:45 a.m., In Person
SP 110-A2 Spiritual Formation - Odd Weeks Wednesday, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In Person
SP 110-A3 Spiritual Formation - Odd Weeks Monday, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Hybrid

Weekend Intensive 
All Sections Week 12 - Sat., Dec. 7, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Online

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An introduction to the study of the practices of Christian worship with attention to the ways the Bible, theology, tradition, and context shape what Christian communities do when they gather to worship God. Led by faculty representing a variety of theological disciplines and perspectives, each section of WS 110 considers particular dimensions of Christian worship, promoting theological reflection, historical and socio-cultural awareness, intellectual curiosity, and participation in the worship life of the seminary community and the wider church. The course is also designed to introduce the resources, tools, and skills that contribute to effective written communication at the Master's level. 

Professor

Ryan Ramsey

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30-9:45 a.m., In person

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An introduction to the study of the practices of Christian worship with attention to the ways the Bible, theology, tradition, and context shape what Christian communities do when they gather to worship God. Led by faculty representing a variety of theological disciplines and perspectives, each section of WS 110 considers particular dimensions of Christian worship, promoting theological reflection, historical and socio-cultural awareness, intellectual curiosity, and participation in the worship life of the seminary community and the wider church. The course is also designed to introduce the resources, tools, and skills that contribute to effective written communication at the master's level. 

Professor

Angela Hancock

Time

Fall Semester, Mondays and Fridays, 12:00-1:15 p.m., Hancock. Hybrid

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Middler course language option

This course introduces the process of Old Testament exegesis and gives students opportunity to practice exegesis of various Old Testament passages from the English Bible. Students will learn to identify and evaluate the literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts of passages and to articulate the meaning of those passages as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify appropriate scholarly resources for Old Testament interpretation.

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:15 a.m., In person

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Middler required course.

This is the first of two consecutive courses in which students are invited into the postures, habits, and practices of theologically reflective ministry. Interdisciplinary in nature, the course pays particular attention to the integration of student experiences in field placement sites with work in contextual analysis, Christian theology, and pastoral care.

Professor

John Burgess or Edwin van Driel

Times

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In person/Burgess

or

Fall Semester 2024, Mondays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid/van Driel

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This course introduces students to the basics of biblical Greek and to the tools necessary for translating and interpreting New Testament Greek texts. Students will start with the Greek alphabet and learn the rudiments of grammar and syntax. They will learn basic vocabulary and develop the ability to parse and to translate simple sentences from the New Testament.

Professor

Tucker Ferda

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30-9:45 a.m., In-Person

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This course introduces students to the basics of biblical Hebrew and to the tools necessary for translating and interpreting Hebrew texts. Students will learn Hebrew consonants and vowel points and the rudiments of Hebrew grammar and syntax. Students will learn basic vocabulary and begin to translate and interpret simple sentences from the Hebrew Bible.

Professor

Kimberly Russaw

Time

Fall Semester 2023, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Hybrid

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In this course, students will be introduced to the theology and practice of caring ministry, with special attention to pastoral self-awareness and key relational skills. The course will help students develop their capacity to understand and discern the needs of persons and communities and to determine appropriate responses. Students will also explore the intersection of leadership and care through the study of organizational dynamics and group processes.

Professor

Leanna Fuller

Time

Fall Semester 2023, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-Person
Fall Semester 2023, Mondays and Fridays, 12:00-1:15, p.m., Hybrid

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This is the first of two courses introducing students to Christian doctrine. Students are invited to reflect theologically on the biblical narrative of election, creation, sin, Israel, and Christ's incarnation, death, resurrection and ascension as lifted up in the church's creedal confessions about Trinity and Christ. Attention will be given to how God's being and work draw us into God's mission and give shape to faithful practices and ministry within particular cultural contexts. 

Professor

Edwin van Driel

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

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This course equips students to reflect on the church and its relationship to its various locations, with a particular focus on national and global contexts and issues.  Students will learn to use biblical and theological resources with insight from the social sciences to analyze contexts and to identify and explore ethical issues related to cultural, economic, and social structures in which the church participates in God's mission.

Professor

AnneMarie Mingo

Time

Fall 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-Person

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Senior required course.

This is the second of two courses introducing students to Christian doctrine. Students are invited to reflect theologically on the biblical narrative of God’s gifts through the Spirit of the risen Christ, including justification, sanctification, vocation, the church, the sacraments, and the eschatological consummation of God’s reign, as lifted up in the church’s creedal confessions. Attention will be given to how God’s being and work draw us into God’s mission and give shape to faithful practices and ministry within particular cultural contexts. 

Professor

John Burgess

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

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MTS required course.

This course introduces students to the sources, methods, and bibliographical tools important for academic research and writing in a theological context. Students will gain familiarity with on-campus resources such as the Barbour Library and Center for Writing and Learning Support. Designed to be completed in the first year of one’s program, this course will develop skills in critical analysis as students begin engaging scholarship relevant to completing a research project.

Professor

Ervin Dyer

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Thursdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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This course introduces approaches to biblical interpretation that have developed within the context of our current environmental crisis. We will evaluate critical arguments that implicate the Bible as a contributor to the problem and attend to more constructive readings that partner biblical scholarship with environmental ethics. Students will assess the academic merits of ecological hermeneutics and consider its potential as a resource for preaching and teaching in the life of the church.

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Thursdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In-Person

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This course explores World Christianity as an academic field of study by examining the histories of Christian communities in particular parts of the world. The course provides both broad overviews of regional histories as well as focused studies of particular Christian communities curated to demonstrate their diversity and ingenuity. Students will also engage key thinkers and ideas from scholars of World Christianity. In the fall of 2024, the course will focus on Christian communities in the Global South.

Professor

Ryan Ramsey

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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This course will examine the history, theological focus, and core values that inform ministry in the city. Attention will be given to helping students discern their vocational call in the context of city life and Christian witness in this arena.

Professor

R. Drew Smith

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Thursdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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This course offers an academic study of religions believed, expressed, and experienced by African Americans. In this course, students will utilize secondary historical and contemporary sources of African American religious experiences of women and men to chart the history of religions in the African American community. Together we will examine a system of sacred symbols that have been passed down for centuries by African peoples. The course will focus on themes of faith, freedom, uplift, resistance, love, and hope.

This course is an approved elective for the Graduate Certificate in Urban Ministry.

Professor

AnneMarie Mingo

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In-Person

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A study of the theology of Martin Luther, including the history of his life, theological development, and his understanding of the major doctrines of the Christian tradition.  The course will also include some reflection on the effects in later history of certain doctrines.

Professor

Kenneth Woo

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In-Person

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This course represents a biblically-theologically rooted approach to planting mission-shaped churches. The course focuses on the formation of church planting leaders able to cultivate new mission-shaped Christian communities in specific contexts. Students will develop the capacity to be theologically reflective church planting leaders from within concrete personal and communal postures, habits, and skills of initiating and leading the formation of new Christian communities.

Professor

Scott Hagley

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Mondays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., In-Person

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The apostle Paul and his letters dominate our understanding and reconstruction of the earliest generation of the Christian movement. Paul’s influence over Christian theology, especially in Reformed traditions, is rivaled only by the influence of Jesus himself, though quests for Paul’s theology focus particularly on the letters to the Romans and the Galatians. This course examines what are probably Paul’s earliest letters, moving beyond “Pauline theology” to explore exegetical, historical, and social aspects of 1–2 Thessalonians as well as Christianity at its origins and in twenty-first-century contexts.

Professor

Rafael Rodriguez

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:15 a.m., In-Person

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In this course students will explore key topics related to ordained ministry, including the theology of ordination, the vocation of the ordained, the pastor as spiritual guide, visionary/strategic leadership, adaptive leadership, and sustaining a life of pastoral ministry. Students will also be introduced to skills and practices necessary for effective ordained leadership, including leading weddings and funerals, administering sacraments, leading staff, equipping laity, and overseeing financial and facility matters.

Professor

L. Roger Owens

Time

Fall Semester 2024, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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Course Description

This course introduces students to the basics of biblical Greek and to the tools necessary for translating and interpreting New Testament Greek texts. Students will start with the Greek alphabet and learn the rudiments of grammar and syntax. They will learn basic vocabulary and develop the ability to parse and to translate simple sentences from the New Testament. 

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

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Course Description

This course completes the study of introductory Greek grammar, extends vocabulary memorization, and introduces the practice of exegesis. Students will gain skills in interpreting texts by giving attention to their literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts, and by articulating the meaning of these texts as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify appropriate scholarly resources for biblical interpretation.

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

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Course Description

This course introduces students to the basics of biblical Hebrew and to the tools necessary for translating and interpreting Hebrew texts. Students will learn Hebrew consonants and vowel points and the rudiments of grammar and syntax. They will learn basic vocabulary and begin to translate and interpret simple sentences from the Hebrew Bible. 

Professor

Jerome Creach

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Course Description

This course completes the study of introductory Hebrew grammar and introduces the practice of exegesis. Students will gain skills in interpreting texts by giving attention to their literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts, and by articulating the meaning of these texts as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify appropriate scholarly resources for biblical interpretation. 

Professor

Jerome Creach

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Year 1 required course.

This course surveys the history of Christianity from the Reformation to the present. Ecclesial and doctrinal developments will be considered with special attention to the different forms that Christian life and thought have taken as the church has entered new cultural contexts and discerned faithfulness to God’s mission.

Professor

John Burgess

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays,  6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

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This course offers an orientation to the ways anthropological and sociological approaches to the interpretation of culture contribute to theological reflection with and within particular socio-cultural contexts. Focusing on a particular neighborhood and/or institutional environment, students will become familiar with the techniques and develop the skills to critically consider the missiological, theological, and ethical dimensions of a Christian community in relation to the wider society.

Professor

Scott Hagley

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m. In person
                                               Thursdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m. Hybrid

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An introduction to those books of the New Testament associated with the letter-form (the Pauline corpus, Hebrews, the Petrine epistles, Jude and Revelation), showing their significance in the Church and the world today. Special attention is given to the specific content of these books, to their particular genres, to the life and theology of Paul, and to the methods used in the critical study of these books (literary, socio-historical, rhetorical), as well as to the question of pseudepigraphy.

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Wednesdays, Hybrid

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An introduction to the prophetic books (Latter Prophets), Psalter, and Wisdom literature of the Old Testament with an exploration of factors that gave rise to and helped shaped this material. In addition to examining the background of prophecy in the cultures of the ancient Near East, attention is given to the specific content of these books, to the theology of the prophetic books, to the various literary genres (e.g., oracle, hymn, lament), to methods used in the interpretation of Scripture (source, form, redaction, literary, socio-cultural, canonical, and rhetorical criticism), and to the psalms as a product of Israel’s cultic life.

Professor

Jerome Creach

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-Person

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Course Description

In this course students will be introduced to and practice a variety of spiritual disciplines, grounded in historic Christian spiritual traditions. Students will reflect on their own life of prayer, practice of vocational discernment, and begin developing the skills to lead communal spiritual practices.

Professor

L. Roger Owens

Time

Weekend Intensive 
All Sections Week 12 - Saturday, May 10, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., In-Person 
SP 110-B1 Spiritual Formation - Even Weeks Wednesday, 8:30-9:45 a.m., In-Person
SP 110-B2 Spiritual Formation - Even Weeks Wednesday, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-Person
SP 110-B3 Spiritual Formation - Even Weeks Monday, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Online

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Course Description

This course introduces the process of New Testament exegesis and gives students the opportunity to practice exegesis of various New Testament passages in the English Bible. Students will learn to identify and evaluate the literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts of passages and to articulate a faithful interpretation of the meanings of those passages as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify reliable and appropriate scholarly resources for New Testament interpretation.

This course fulfills the language requirement for students who do not take Greek or Hebrew.

Professor

Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., In-Person

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Course Description

This is the first of two consecutive courses in which students are invited into the postures, habits, and practices of theologically reflective ministry. Interdisciplinary in nature, the course pays particular attention to the integration of student experiences in field placement sites with work in contextual analysis, Christian theology, and pastoral care.

Professor

Roger Owens and Jerome Creach

Times

Spring Semester 2023, Wednesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In-Person, Owens
or
Spring Semester 2023, Mondays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid, Creach

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Full Course Description - Creach

Course Description

This course explores biblical, theological, and historical understandings of Christian mission and evangelism with a view toward practices for leading the church to discern and participate in God’s mission within particular contexts.

Professor

Scott Hagley

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

Full Course Description

Course Description

This course completes the study of introductory Greek grammar, extends vocabulary memorization, and introduces the practice of exegesis. Students will gain skills in interpreting texts by giving attention to their literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts, and by articulating the meaning of these texts as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify appropriate scholarly resources for biblical interpretation.

Professor

Tucker Ferda

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-7:45 p.m., In person

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Course Description

This course completes the study of introductory Hebrew grammar and introduces the practice of exegesis. Students will gain skills in interpreting texts by giving attention to their literary, social, historical, and canonical contexts, and by articulating the interpretation of these texts as Christian Scripture. Students will also learn to identify appropriate scholarly resources for biblical interpretation.

Professor

Kimberly Russaw

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30-9:45 a.m., In-Person

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This course introduces students to the theology and practice of preaching, with attention to the performative skills involved in effective communication in ministry settings. Topics include: the oral interpretation of Scripture, biblical exegesis for proclamation, the role of culture and context in preaching, the structure and rhetoric of sermons, and the non-verbal dimensions of communication.

Professor

Angela Hancock and Donna Giver-Johnston

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:15 a.m., In-Person, Hancock
                                               Thursdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid, Giver-Johnston

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Course Description

This course equips students to reflect on the church and its relationship to its various locations, with a particular focus on national and global contexts and issues.  Students will learn to use biblical and theological resources with insight from the social sciences to analyze contexts and to identify and explore ethical issues related to cultural, economic, and social structures in which the church participates in God's mission.

Professor

AnneMarie Mingo

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Thursdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Hybrid

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Womanist Biblical Interpretation is a course in which students critically engage the works of womanist biblical scholars to understand the ways this scholarly enterprise has evolved and consider possible trajectories for its future. This course relies heavily upon students’ close reading of both biblical passages and scholarly writings to scrutinize how factors such as methodological approaches, socio-historical contexts, and individual or community urgencies collaborate to produce Womanist Biblical Interpretation scholarship within the religious academy.

Professor

Kimberly Russaw

Time

Spring 2023-2024, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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The Pittsburgh Metropolitan region has embodied in important ways America’s early settler adventures, difficult race relations, industrial revolution, labor strife, urban decline and redevelopment, and an evolving religious culture. Utilizing historical, sociological, and theological readings as well as lectures from key, local experts and informants, the course explores Pittsburgh’s metropolitan ethos and the role of churches in the formation and maintenance of metro-Pittsburgh’s social and religious culture. Observational and analytical tools acquired in this course will readily transfer to interpretation and analysis of local social and religious contexts beyond the metro-Pittsburgh context.

Professor

R. Drew Smith

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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This course combines theoretical examinations of intentional faith-based social engagement and ‘real-time’ collective pursuits of such engagement as embodied in large contemporary networks of socially-engaged Christians (requiring pre-approval). The bulk of the course content will derive from student participation in a week-long annual or biannual conference of one of these networks (or of a similar network). An additional layer of theoretical analysis will be provided via course readings that outline tight connections between moral-ethical thought and action

Professor

AnneMarie Mingo

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024 
Feb. 13 - Pre-Conference Orientation, Tuesday, 3:00-5:45 p.m., Online
Feb. 19-22 - Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference in Chicago
March 5 - Post-Conference Reflections, Tuesday, 3:00-5:45 p.m., Online
March 19 - Final Papers and Presentations

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The course will equip students to mobilize, train, and lead their congregation or non-profit organization to engage faithfully and effectively in God’s mission as a central part of congregational/organizational identity. We will deconstruct colonial notions of mission as charity and postmodern assumptions of mission as self-transformation through a critical analysis of the most popular congregational mission strategies (mission trips, child sponsorship, development projects, orphanages, meal packaging, etc.). We will reflect on the foundations of mission theology, anthropology and development studies needed to engage more authentically and respectfully using case studies and interviews with innovative leaders.

Professor

Hunter Farrell

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Mondays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online    

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A study of the Gospel of Mark: its background, narrative structure and techniques, theological concerns, and significance for our situation. The course will emphasize careful reading and seek to place Mark’s themes in conversation with the larger canonical witness.

Professor

Tucker Ferda

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Wednesdays, 8:30-11:15 a.m., In-Person

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This course is an exploration and an investigation of the nature and dynamics of Trauma with an emphasis in trauma informed spiritual care.  This course engages grief and trauma both in the intimacy of personal relationships as well as traumatic experiences arising from loss of racism, natural disasters, employment, church closure, and other forms of communal loss. Discussion of communal and one-on-one forms of caring for those who are experiencing trauma with the analysis of the theology of grief implicit in such care, particularly related to questions of theology will be explored. Special attention is paid to the communal trauma care elements of rituals in times of loss as well as challenges arising for communities in multi-faith context.

Professor

Beverly Wallace

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Mondays, 6:30-9:15 p.m., Online

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The parables of Jesus pose a unique challenge for preachers. This course introduces the genre of parable in the New Testament, maps the history of parable interpretation, considers current approaches to the synoptic parables in biblical studies and homiletics, and introduces options for faithfully and imaginatively proclaiming the parables of Jesus today in a variety of ministry contexts.

Professor

Angela Hancock

Time

Spring Semester 2023-2024, Wednesdays, 1:30-4:15 p.m., In-Person

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This course invites students to reflect theologically on the ecclesial contexts in which they (will) minister: locally, denominationally, and ecumenically. Focusing on baptism, (ordained) ministry, and church unity, students will both draw on the insights of their own traditions and learn to see these traditions as embedded in a wider catholic tradition. As the shape of Christianity in North America is increasingly fragmented, this course will challenge students to ponder how we might seek common ecclesial life with those who think similarly and those who are different.

Professor

Jared Witt

Time

January Term 2023-2024, Tues., Jan. 9, 2023, 7:00 p.m., Online
Saturdays, Jan. 13, 20, 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Online

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An introduction to the essential elements of Presbyterian polity (the Book of Order) in light of the confessional and theological foundations (the Book of Confessions) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The course will explore ways an understanding of Presbyterian polity can support, guide, and enhance the practice of ministry in diverse congregational settings. In addition, students will be introduced to basic parliamentary procedure and the role of the moderator in planning and facilitating session meetings. This course is designed to prepare Presbyterian students for the ordination examination in church polity of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Professor

Trent Hancock

Time

January Term 2023-2024, Tues., Jan. 9, 2023, 7:00 p.m., Online
Saturdays, Jan. 13, 20, 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Online

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Intercultural Experiential Learning will be organized around intercultural/experiential learning trips to reflect on hosts’ understanding of their context and the mission of the Church in that context. The course provides pre-experience orientation in cultural competence and anti-racism, intercultural communication, a theology of short-term mission engagement, area studies for the specific context to be studied, and spiritual practices for mission. After the encounters, students will reflect on their experiences and explore personal, cultural, missiological, and theological strategies for leading others in intercultural experiences.

Professor

Hunter Farrell, AnneMarie Mingo

Time

January Term 2023-2024, Jan. 8-10, 2024, 5:00-8:00 p.m., In-Person and Online
Jan. 29-31, 2024, 5:00-8:00 p.m., In-Person and Online

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