Spring 2024 Courses
Course Number | Name | Credits | Instructor | Schedule |
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BAEQ-409 |
Theology of Music
In this course you will make a brief analysis of the history of music from its first records in the Old and New Testaments, and from the first century to the present day. These elements will serve as a basis for deepening the relationship between music and the communication of faith and between aesthetic experience and religious experience. The main objective will be to generate a space for reflection on the current use of music in open dialogue with the Christian tradition and as a positive contribution to the witness of the Church in the world and as a means of growth and development of faith. | 3 | Machado Sanchez | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 5:10-7:30pm, ZOOM |
BS-1250 |
Using Biblical Languages
Students will be introduced to the basic elements of biblical Hebrew and Greek. The course is designed for those seeking to understand the components of the biblical languages for ministerial purposes, however, any who are interested in Hebrew and Greek are encouraged to attend. The course content and curriculum will include preparation in the use of Hebrew and Greek lexical aids, an introduction to the fundamentals of linguistic theory, and exposure to exegetical and hermeneutical methods. This course is a requirement for all BST students; however, students from across the Graduate Theological Union are welcome and encouraged to take the course. This course will be a hybrid format. | 3 | Sias | Spring 2024 Wednesdays, 6:10-9:00 pm, Hybrid |
BS-4435 |
The Living Text of Leviticus
Prerequisites: Intro to Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Aside from what could be interpreted as Christological typology within the Pentateuchal text, Christian interpretation has long ignored and dismissed Leviticus. In reality, Leviticus is a complicated document, rich with cultural and theological nuance. This course will explore the societal components of Leviticus and the unique rituals found therein. This examination, then, will expand the readings of Leviticus beyond those of mere typology from a Christian context. Even though all students of the GTU are encouraged to attend, this course is designed for both master’s students seeking ordination and PhD students within the Sacred Texts or Historical and Cultural Studies departments. An additional Hebrew reading section will be required for PhD students in Sacred text, although all those with experience in Hebrew are highly encouraged to attend the reading hour. All sections of the course will be in hybrid format, although PhD students are required to attend in person. | 3 | Sias | Spring 2024 Mondays, 6:10-9:00pm, BST 3rd floor conf. room & Hybrid |
BSRS-2800 |
Bible & Public Policy
This exciting new course will: explore biblical and theological foundations for establishing a moral basis for public policy; facilitate skill development for evaluating effects of public policy upon those least able to protect and defend their interests; introduce the student to social advocacy groups and Watch Dog Agencies for collaboration in influencing public policy; and assist the student in creating a sustainable plan for keeping abreast of ever changing social policies that threaten to undo justice-oriented public policy. Possible Field trips to Sacramento and Washington DC. | 3 | Flesher/Wilkins | Spring 2024 Mondays, 2:10-5:00pm, Remote |
DM-5048 |
Effective Leadership in Church & Society
This course will explore the mission and function of the Christian church as well as effective leadership for the church and society. Since the church should be consideed inseparable from human society we will attempt to deal with a range of topics related to sociological issues, social problems and social ethics. This course will be taught in Korean. | 3 | Kim | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 6:10-9:00 p.m., ZOOM |
DM-6015 |
DMIN In Thesis
This is the course number used for BST Doctor of Ministry students working on the completion of their doctoral project. Students should work with their DMin committees for counsel on implementation and completion of their projects. | 3 | Faculty | Spring 2024 |
DM-6078 |
Becoming Culturally Responsive, Part 1
To be(come) Culturally Responsive requires mentors and partners. Each student in the newly revised Competency Based Doctor of Ministry program will journey alongside a thematic cohort with several DMin students and three mentors. A student’s mentor team of 3 can be geographically centered or spread across the globe. The remote realities that have become the new normal in our world create possibilities for communication and gatherings from anyplace at any time. Year 1 of Berkeley School of Theology’s Culturally Responsive Competency Based DMin will address several themes. Each student will select one of the several themes to emphasize and build his/her mentor team accordingly. | 3 | Flesher/Sias | Spring 2024 Feb 12-16; 9am to 5pm PDT, Remote |
DM-6666 |
Continuing Fee
For BST DMin students only, upon completion of coursework, until completion of dissertation. | 3 | Faculty | Spring 2024 |
FE-2109 |
Internship II
Supervised ministry in approved placements for MDiv and MCL students. Format: Field placement experience, Lecture, discussion and small groups. Assignments: a learning covenant, reflection papers, timely completion of evaluation forms. BST students in second semester of field education. Pass/Fail only. Students must have made arrangements for an approved placement.[Auditors excluded]. | 3 | Miles-Tribble | Spring 2024 Date/Time: TBD, Concurrent Hybrid |
FT-1111 |
Graduate Theological Writing
Second semester of a required course for entering BST seminarians – open to other GTU students. Students will learn skills of academic writing, critical analysis, and articulation of objectives. Writing samples and instructor feedback integrate theory and praxis. | 1.5 | Kunkel | Spring 2024 Wednesdays, 4:30-5:50pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
FT-2537 |
How To Lead Almost Anything: Honing Skills To Build Consensus Not Chaos
This course, Effectively Honing Leadership Skills, examines effective leadership in our contexts to identify ethical leadership strategies or competencies crucial to effective relations in any organizational setting, whether pastoral or roles in prison, hospital or military chaplaincy, nonprofit community service, social entrepreneurship, or parachurch organizations. Use of multimedia and case studies for interactive class discussions, reflection, and engagement of secular and faithbased readings. Students interconnect prophetic, visionary, and contemplative roles in the organic culture of an organization. By the end of the course, students can assess leadership characteristics in organizational culture and present on a contextually grounded ‘real-life’ leadership project. | 3 | Miles-Tribble | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 6:10-9::00pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
FTRS-2285 |
Leading Ministries of Reconciliation
This course will examine the theological foundations, competencies and practices of leaders in multicultural, multiracial or multiethnic churches, which are referred to as Diversity-Oriented Churches. We will examine how leaders of diversity-oriented churches promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and inspire reconciliation, justice and fellowship among different people groups. | 3 | Leander | Spring 2024 Thursdays, 2:10-5:00pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
FTRS-3351 |
Leading Diversity-Oriented Ministries Certificate, Part 2
Part II of a 2 Part course. The Leading Diversity-Oriented Ministries Certificate is year long program that prepares church planters, pastoral leaders, ministry leaders, and higher education professionals for leadership roles in diversity-oriented organizations. The goal of the program is to provide leaders with the necessary awareness, knowledge, skills, and experience to provide effective intercultural leadership. All participants must commit to a 12 month educational program with monthly 3-4 hour sessions. All participants will receive 3 academic units for fall 2023 and 3 academic units for spring 2024 semesters. Cohort #1 begins on Monday, May 22, 2023 — then once a month for the next 12 months (specific dates TBD). | 3 | Leander | Spring 2024 Meeting times, TBD |
HM-2508 |
Prophetic Preaching
This intermediate preaching course will be operated in a hybrid model. In addition to remote (Zoom) engagements for theoretical and practical elements of prophetic preaching, the class will have required offline onsite visits to have firsthand experiences of prophetic ministries. For those living outside the SF Bay Area, special arrangements may be made in consultation with instructors for them to visit sites of their local cities. By doing so, this course will identify several central issues around prophetic preaching in contemporary societies. Students will preach and videotape three sermons and post them on Moodle for feedback. The students are expected to bring together class discussions and field trip experiences to their sermons and their vision for prophetic preaching in their own ministry. | 3 | Thompson | Spring 2024 Wednesdays, 6:00-8:40pm, BST |
HM-4258 |
Prophetic Preaching
This intermediate online preaching course will be operated in a hybrid model. In addition to online engagements for theoretical and practical elements of prophetic preaching, the class will have required offline onsite visits to have firsthand experiences of prison, shelter, and foodbank. For those living outside the SF Bay Area, special arrangements may be made in consultation with the instructor for them to visit sites of their local cities. By doing so, this course will identify several central issues around prophetic preaching in contemporary societies. Students will preach and videotape three sermons and post them on Moodle for feedback. By the nature of the course, the students are expected to bring together class discussions and field trip experiences to their sermons and their own vision for prophetic preaching in their own ministry. All Degree students are welcome. | 3 | Thompson | Spring 2024 Wednesdays, 6:00-8:40pm, BST |
HM-4300 |
One Of A Kind: Gardner C. Taylor and His Homiletic Method
Gardner C. Taylor was considered one of the most effective 20th century’s preachers in the English-speaking world. Taylor was a one of a kind (sui generis) preacher, who was broadly known for his Victorian eloquence, perfect diction, his volcanic sermonic eruptions and at other times, he was known for speaking just above a whisper. In this course, we will study his homiletic method. This includes his hermeneutic, narrative development, theology, rhetoric, sermon structure and delivery. In addition, we will listen to a variety of Taylor’s sermons from points in his long career and different settings, (i.e., academic and church contexts) and attempt to locate differences, similarities, and effectiveness. | 3 | Evans | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 3:40-6:40pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
IDS-4300 |
Capstone Innovation Project
As a culmination of the course work and internship experiences in the MDiv program, this course provides students an opportunity to design, develop, and implement a ministerial project in their areas of interest based on biblical, theological, and practical foundations. With the feedback of fellow students, mentors, and professors, students write a 20-25 page-long Ministry Innovation Project to identify and address a social, ecclesial, or systemic issue of need to which this project responds theoretically and practically. Students will also present an abbreviated version of this Project in a form of video so that it may be shared with a wider audience. | 3 | Torgerson | Spring 2024 Mondays, 7:10-9:40pm, BST |
IDS-8101 |
Navigating the Complexities, part 1
Creative Church & Community, Spirituality & Resilience, Justice & Reconciliation, Border-Crossing. These are all topics that will be addressed through the lenses of Bible, Theology, Ethics, History, and Praxis as a means of introducing and preparing the online student to /for the work of theological study and reflection. In part 1 of this two-part, year-long, MTS core online introduction the student will engage key terms, concepts, and methodologies; in part 2 (spring semester) the student will make application of all of the above to a topic of their own choosing. [This is the only core course for the BST MTS=Master’s in Theological Studies & first year DMIN students] | 3 | Miles-Tribble | Spring 2024 Begins January 29, 2024, Online Asynchronous. |
IDS-8102 |
Navigating the Complexities, Part II
Creative Church & Community, Spirituality & Resilience, Justice & Reconciliation, Border-Crossing. These are all topics that will be addressed through the lenses of Bible, Theology, Ethics, History, and Praxis as a means of introducing and preparing the online student to /for the work of theological study and reflection. In part 1 of this two-part, year-long, MTS core online introduction the student will engage key terms, concepts, and methodologies; in part 2 (spring semester) the student will make application of all of the above to a topic of their own choosing. [This is a core course for the BST MTS=Master’s in Theological Studies program & for Entering DMIN students]. This course opens 1/29/24. | 3 | Flesher | Spring 2024 Opens Jan 29, Online Asynchronous |
LIEQ-201 |
Ensayos Teológicos Pt. 2
Este taller es la continuación del curso de Ensayos Teológicos que comenzó en el semestre de otoño de 2023. Se espera que los estudiantes tengan todas las tareas y lecturas preparadas antes de cada clase y que entreguen un ensayo de 5-7 páginas con al menos 5 notas al pie y una bibliografía al final del semestre. | 1.5 | Kang | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00pm. Zoom |
LIEQ-205 |
Historia del Cristianismo / History of Christianity
Este curso ofrece un estudio de la historia y la teología cristianas desde los tiempos apostólicos hasta los inicios de la Reforma. El material del curso presta una atención equilibrada a la historia intelectual y social del cristianismo, con una consideración sostenida de la relación cambiante de la iglesia con las estructuras políticas y sociales y la cuestión de la unidad en la diversidad. | 3 | Bautista | Spring 2024 Thursdays, 5:30-8:00pm PST, Online Synchronous |
LIEQ-207 |
Teología Sistemática / Systematic Theology
El propósito de este curso es facilitar la comprensión y la adquisición de conocimientos básicos de los temas principales de la teología sistemática cristiana. Se examinarán los componentes de los diferentes métodos de hacer teología para comprender cómo se han desarrollado las doctrinas a lo largo de la historia cristianismo. Además, como las doctrinas evolucionan adquiriendo nuevos significados históricos, sociales y culturales, evaluaremos y asumiremos los desafíos que los nuevos enfoques metodológicos presentan para la tarea teológica y el ministerio en el siglo 21. | 3 | H. DaValle | Spring 2024 Wednesdays 6:00-8:30pm pst, Online Synchronous |
LIEQ-503 |
La Biblia y la justicia social | Bible & Social Justice
La justicia y la rectitud ocurren juntas repetidamente a lo largo de la Biblia. Este curso examinará la importancia de la justicia social en la Biblia y en el antiguo Medio Oriente en general. Se pondrá especial énfasis en los migrantes y la migración, y en cómo la migración dió contexto y una comprensión más amplia de la práctica de la justicia social. Los estudiantes tendrán la oportunidad de examinar cómo las experiencias migratorias afectan las respuestas de las comunidades religiosas tanto en los asuntos sociales antiguos como en los contemporáneos. | 3 | Wiser | Spring 2024 Mondays, 5:30-8:30pm, Online Synchronous |
LS-1150 |
Worship: A Comprehensive Exploration
This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of worship, combining biblical foundations with a historical and practical exploration of Christian worship traditions. Students will engage with key theological concepts, analyze biblical passages, study historical developments, and develop practical skills for leading and planning worship services. | 3 | Harvey | Spring 2024 Tuesdays, 2:20-3:30pm and 3:40-5:00pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
NT-1080 |
New Testament Voices
In New Testament Voices, we will listen to the voices within the Christian Scriptures, honing our ability to understand and research the historical contexts in which these texts first “spoke.” We will also develop our capacities to hear from voices through history that have read and interpreted these texts. Finally, each student will progress in finding their own voice with which to speak about and proclaim the messages of these ancient writings for faith communities today. This introductory course is for masters-level students. Evaluation is based on in-class presentations, short papers, and quizzes. | 3 | Torgerson | Spring 2024 Thursdays, 6:10-9:00pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
PS-1062 |
Congregational Care
This course will seek to (1) define and describe the art of pastoral care and counseling and the contexts in which it takes place; (2) explore the needs and dynamics of people seeking help, as well as the self-awareness and skills required of the person in ministry; (3) provide opportunities for the practice and development of spiritual caregiving skills, including basic skills of listening, assessment, connecting with others, and communication of caring and hope; and (4) foster an environment wherein participants can reflect theologically on the issues, contexts, and crises faced by people in need. Course format includes discussions, lectures, student presentations. | 3 | Mixon | Spring 2024 Wednesdays, 3:40-6:40pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
ST-2037 |
Introduction To Christian Theology
The course emphasizes liberatory, and contemporary thought, through brief but in-depth encounters with historically pivotal or influential essays, texts, thinkers, and ideas. Students will learn to use and interpret basic theological concepts and models, using traditional vocabularies (doctrine of God, creation, theological anthropology, Christology, suffering and evil, soteriology, pneumatology, eschatology) by engaging a variety of theological texts critically and creatively. Students will be invited to participate as theologians while gaining a sense of how theology is a temporal, contextual, ongoing and imaginative endeavor, in which present articulations are flooded with, produced by, argue with, extend, contradict, and depart from inherited claims about the relations between God, Jesus/Christ, the Holy Spirit, humanity, life, and the universe(s). Course format: Lecture and discussion. | 3 | Grandison | Spring 2024 Thursdays, 5:10-8:00pm, Concurrent Hybrid |
ST-4150 |
Constructive Theology
This is a core course intended to be taken in the student’s senior year of their master’s level program. Students in this course will create their own systematic theology document as required by denominational ordination councils. | 3 | Grandison | Spring 2024 Thursdays, 5:10-8:00pm, Concurrent Hybrid. |
SUMMER 2024 COURSES
Course Number | Name | Credits | Instructor | Schedule |
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BSCE-3100 |
Joshua and Genocide: Reading the Bible’s Most Dangerous Book
Does God sanction genocide? From the new atheists to most other people who read the Bible, the Book of Joshua has been a stumbling block to believing that the God of the Bible is a benevolent God, or reason enough to not believe in God, period. In this course, students will learn “how the Bible came to be” and why that matters for how we read the Bible’s most violent book, Joshua. We will study the entire book of Joshua and enter the inner biblical debate about the parameters and ownership of the so-called promised land. We will consider whether the person of Joshua as described in the biblical book bearing his name, is singularly one of the most violent of genocidal saviors of a people, and how such a book might serve as divine revelation to readers for whom it is sacred Scripture. This is weekly 2-hour lecture/discussion online class offered over a six week period for 1.5 credit hours (class participation and a reflection paper) or 3.0 credit hours (additional readings and assignments outside of class). Classes are Thursdays, 5-7pm, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11, 18. | 1.5 | Brenneman | Summer 2024 Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27; July 11 & 18, 2024. ZOOM |
BSRS-2500 |
The Bible in Film
In this course students will explore the intricate interplay between biblical narratives and modern cinema. Students will delve into the art of exegesis, prioritizing a deep understanding of biblical texts and their cinematic counterparts and uncover the profound ways in which filmmakers reinterpret, adapt, and draw inspiration from sacred scriptures. The course will focus on analyzing iconic films and dissecting their narrative choices, visual symbolism, and theological implications. From biblical epics to contemporary masterpieces, students will discover how filmmakers navigate and reinterpret these timeless stories. This course invites students to critically engage with both scripture and cinema, fostering a nuanced appreciation for the dynamic relationship between ancient wisdom and modern storytelling. This class will be hybrid, meeting Tuesdays from 5-7 pm PST from 6/11–7/16. | 3 | Sias | Summer 2024 Tuesdays, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, from 6/11-7/16. Concurrent Hybrid |
FALL 2024 COURSES
Course Number | Name | Credits | Instructor | Schedule |
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BS-4805 |
Paul Then and Now
As the first Christian documents, Paul’s letters offer a deep and illuminating insight into the study of Christian origins. Thus, analysis of the writings is essential to understanding the New Testament and the formation of Christianity. This course offers students an investigation into these documents from various interpretive perspectives. Special attention will be given to later Christian (mis)interpretations of Paul and his late Second Temple Jewish context. Even though all students of the GTU are encouraged to attend, this course is designed for both master’s students seeking ordination and Ph.D. students within the Sacred Texts or Historical and Cultural Studies departments. An additional Greek reading section is possible upon students’ request. All sections of the course will be in hybrid format. Note Registration Restrictions: Auditors with Faculty Permission | 3 | Sias | Fall 2024 Mondays, 3:40pm - 6:30pm Hybrid |
BSRS-4650 |
Bible, Culture, Power, and Justice
This advanced seminar will explore how culture, power, and justice affect the ways we read the Bible will draw on global readings of the Bible as well as intentionally contextual readings from the United States, including womanist, feminist, Asian-American, Latina, Black and other hermeneutical approaches. To deepen our understanding of how all interpretation is contextual, we will also consider readings from the dominant androcentric, North Atlantic strands of history of interpretation and engage ethnography of reading. We will consider and perform biblical interpretation as ethical activity. Evaluation will be based on seminar participation and leadership, two critical interpretive papers and a final essay constructing a personal hermeneutic. This class is open to M.Div. and other masters degree students, can be leveled up for D.Min. and Ph.D. students. | 3 | Torgerson | Fall 2024 Tuesdays, 12:40pm - 3:30pm Hybrid |
CEST-1400 |
Faith and Society: Exploring Ethical Complexity
This course serves as an introductory exploration into theology and ethics, a mandatory course for MCL students. Throughout the semester, we will delve into five distinct topics—immigration, feminicide, racism, secularization, and AI—examining them on both global and local scales and exploring their intersection with religion to foster theological reflection. Classes will incorporate lectures, presentations, and discussions to engage with these complex issues. | 3 | Kang | Fall 2024 Tuesdays, 2:10pm - 5:00pm Hybrid |
DM-6046 |
Research Methods
This core Doctor of Ministry course has been created specifically to train DMin students in creating viable research methods for their DMin projects that will generate reliable qualitative data. Evaluation based on seminar participation, research training exercises, a book review, and a first draft of the D.Min. research proposal. Course will meet throughout the semester in remote synchronous format using Zoom and include asynchronous elements on Moodle. Typically taken six moths after DM-6078 Becoming Culturally Responsive: Part I. | 3 | Torgerson | Fall 2024 Fridays, 9:40am - 12:30pm Remote |
DM-6078 |
Becoming Culturally Responsive (part 1)
To be(come) Culturally Responsive requires mentors and partners. Each student in the newly revised Competency Based Doctor of Ministry program will journey alongside a thematic cohort with several DMin students and mentors. A student’s mentor team can be geographically centered or spread across the globe. The remote realities that have become the new normal in our world create possibilities for communication and gatherings from anyplace at any time. Year 1 of Berkeley School of Theology’s Culturally Responsive Competency Based DMin will address several themes. Each student will select one of the seven themes to emphasize and build his/her mentor team accordingly. | 3 | Flesher/Sias | Fall 2024 Fridays, 9:40am - 12:30pm Hybrid Fall 2024 |
FE-2116 |
BST Internship 1 (Pre-set Zoom Sessions)
Students must have an approved internship to engage in supervised ministry placement for MDIV and MCL degree requirements. Format of class gatherings include: (1) joint orientation to interface with mentor supervisors, (2) group sharing on placement experiences, (3) discussion about faculty selected readings and topics, as well as (4) review of particular assignments (learning covenant / reflection papers / timely completion of evaluation forms) pertinent to the internship. Pre-set sessions will meet on Mondays 3:40-5:00 via Zoom (subject to change w/ students’ input) Note Registration Restrictions: Auditors Excluded | 3 | Miles-Tribble | Fall 2024 Mondays, 3:40pm - 5:00pm Hybrid |
FT-2524 |
Intercultural Leadership
This course will address theories and practices for effective leadership in an intercultural context. We will consider biblical examples of leadership, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership by Kouzes and Posner, along with cultural intelligence as building blocks towards developing intercultural leadership. Special attention will be paid to biblical and contemporary examples of leadership practices that are aimed at reconciling cultural dilemmas. Students will be encouraged to reflect on how they have been influenced by significant leaders while creating a plan for their own intercultural leadership development. | 3 | Leander | Fall 2024 Thursdays, 2:10pm - 5:00pm Hybrid |
FTRS-3350 |
Leading Diversity-Oriented Ministries: Part 1
As the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion further take hold in the Church in the United States, there will be a greater need for competent intercultural leaders. As with many other examples of effective leadership, leaders of diversity-oriented ministries must practice, preach, and live what they believe about diversity, equity, and inclusion of all kinds of people in keeping with the mission of Christ. The good news about intercultural leadership competencies is that they, through missiological praxis—reflection, self-awareness, shared learning experiences, application, and reflection–are accessible. Therefore, the Leading Diversity-Oriented Ministries Program aims to broaden and strengthen the intercultural competencies of church planters, pastoral leaders, ministry leaders, and higher education professionals. The program has the following objectives: (1) increase participants’ leadership capital; (2) equip them with knowledge, skills, tools, and experience; and (3) build capacity for their ministries to be diversity-oriented. | 3 | Leander | Fall 2024 Meets once a month on Friday, 8:10am - 12:30pm Hybrid |
HM-1500 |
Transformative Word
This introductory preaching course is designed to enable the students to learn the theoretical and practical elements of contemporary preaching | 3 | Park | Fall 2024 Thursdays, 7:10pm - 9::40pm BST-Concurrent Hybrid |
HM-4301 |
One of a Kind: Gardner C. Taylor and His Homiletic Method: Part 2
This course will focus on sermon preparation and delivery. Students will prepare sermon outlines, write sermons on one page which includes a clear thesis and argument(s), a compelling introduction and conclusion. As the instructor, I will help students with developing interesting topics that helps listeners appreciate the context and content of a biblical text. Sermons will delivered (by zoom) to peer course mates. Although part one is helpful, Students who not had part one may enroll. Note Registration Restrictions: Faculty Consent Required. Maximum enrollment: 12 | 3 | Evans | Fall 2024 Tuesdays, 3:40pm - 6:30pm BST/Hybrid |
HM-4807 & HM-5087 |
Contemporary Preaching Theory
This course is an advanced seminar on contemporary preaching theories for Masters and Doctoral students. Starting with the historical and Note Registration Restrictions: Auditors with Faculty Permission | 3 | Park | Fall 2024 Tuesdays, 2:10pm - 5:00pm BST-Concurrent Hybrid |
HS-1751 |
History Xnty Reform to Present
This core, introductory history course explores the development of Christianity in the West from the Reformation to the present with a focus on the United States. Using settler colonialism as an analytic throughline, the course invites students to draw connections between the theo-ideologies of the 1500s and the expansion of empire today, with special attention to the role of Christian institutions in advancing and resisting the social supremacies that continue to plague our present. The course also provides introductory methods in historical analysis as applied to ministerial, activist, and pedagogical settings within and beyond the academy. | 3 | Rodriguez | Fall 2024 Mondays, 3:40pm to 6:30pm Online Synchronous |
OT-1107 |
Old Testament Speaks Today
This course will provide a basic introduction to the study and message of the Old Testament. The successful student will have 1) acquired a socio-cultural and theological overview of the Hebrew Bible with focus on basic content, critical issues and exegetical and hermeneutical methodologies; as well as 2) developed a self-awareness concerning their/her/his own social location and its relationship to the reading, thinking, and doing of biblical, historical, and theological work; as well as 3) applied methods, theologies, and interpretations to contemporary social justice concerns. This course is for masters-level students. This course will be hybrid format. | 3 | Sias | Fall 2024 Wednesdays, 5:10pm-8:00pm Hybrid |
RS-3158 |
Lessons from James Baldwin: Life, Love, Lies, & Liberation
James Baldwin, one of the leading figures of the 20th century, bore passionate witness to the truth about poverty, racism, religion, homophobia, and the struggle for justice in America. Throughout this course, we will read and discuss selected novels, short stories, essays, and video clips from his talks, as well as the documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” and the movie based on his novel If Beale | 3 | Wright-Riggins | Fall 2024 Fridays, 12:40pm - 3:30pm Remote |
RSCE-4500 |
Restorative Justice in the Public Square
Restorative justice is an integral part of public theology embodied in the roles of ministry leaders to help our communities heal and thrive. Restorative justice, as a conceptual framework is rooted in ethical constructs of interactive accountability. How can the theoretical principles translate into re-envisioned praxis for public witness that extends beyond its criminal justice origins to include peace-building in public justice work? With guest speakers and interactive group work, students will probe issues and models to examine effective uses and potential for new paradigms. Note Registration Restrictions: Auditors Excluded | 3 | Miles-Tribble | Fall 2024 Thursdays, 6:10pm - 9:00pm BST-Hybrid |
Cross Registration For Courses At Other GTU Schools
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