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HOME > JUNE TERM * Indicates limited enrollment, ** Indicates full-year class TBA = Hours to be arranged, or hours to be announced, m = Minicourse Please keep in mind that these courses are subject to change. Available required readings are listed under each June term course. JUNE TERM I courses run Monday thru Friday from June 2-13, 2008. Unless otherwise mentioned. DMin 350 Doctor of Ministry Colloquium Martin 10:00am-12:00 noon All DMin students are required to participate in the DMin Colloquium. The Colloquium meets during the two-week January term and the first two-week June term each year. The entering DMin student is expected to participate in both segments of the Colloquium in the first year of their doctoral studies, beginning with the January term. Within the Colloquium each student will develop her/his Program Proposal and Thesis/Project Proposal in a collaborative, ministerial-based learning context. Offered annually. T 2160 Third World Feminist Theology Kwok 1:00-3:00 pm A critical study of the challenges and the contributions of Third World feminist theology to the theological discipline. The works of Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Elsa Tamez, Ivone Gebara, Chung Hyun Kyung, and Mary John Mananzan will be studied. Required readings for Third World Feminist Theology Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology  Introducing African Women's Theology (Introductions in Feminist Theology Series)  Out of the Depths: Women's Experience of Evil and Salvation  From Feminist Theology To Indecent Theology: Readings On Poverty, Sexual Identity And God  T 3150 Queer Incarnation Jordan 7:00-9:00 pm The incarnation is sometimes presented as an arithmetic problem: What do you get when you add some divinity to a human body? But thinking about incarnation has to start much further back, in the realization that accounts of Jesus show us how little we understand about either divinity or bodies, much less about how bodies can show, act, and becomes divine. Just here and theology of the incarnation can learn from works of queer theory and the writings of queer thinkers. The body of Jesus- despised, de-sexed, and yet miraculously distributed- invites us to an exchange of bodies along the margins of human power and its certainties. We will think about the queerness of Jesus? body with the help of some traditional texts on incarnation and passion (Athanasius, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Julian) and much more recent work on gender performance, bodily transition or transformation, and the rituals of camp. Required readings for Queer Incarnation Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics  The Sexual Theologian: Essays on Sex, God and Politics (Queering Theology)  Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up  T 4121m From the Desert to the City; an Exploration of Chrisitian Spirituality Griswold *This is a one week class that will run from June 9 - 13.* 10:00 am-12:00 pm This course will give particular attention to various pathways of Christian spirituality that have shaped and molded men and women in the past and continue to guise and form persons of faith in our own day. We will reflect on aspects of growing into a more intimate companionship with Christ and the accompanying fruits of great self knowledge and capacity for apostolic action. NT 2991 The Gospel of Luke Dewey 3:00-5:00 pm A study of the Gospel of Luke in its Roman imperial and Jewish colonial contexts, stressing literary and socio-historical approaches. We will consider its liberating and also its conservative message with regard to women, the poor and oppressed, and the Gentile "other." Luke's portrait of Jesus will be briefly contrasted with Mark and Matthew's portraits. Some attention will be given to the occurrence of Lukan texts in the current lectionary. Required readings for The Gospel of Luke The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version  What Are They Saying About Luke?  Luke (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)  Bruce J. Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh, Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, 2nd edition, Fortress, 2003 EDS NT 2991 Course Reader. University Readers, www.universityreaders.com JUNE TERM II courses run Monday thru Friday, June 16-27, 2008. Unless otherwise mentioned. T 3050 Sexuality and the Social Order Ellison 3:00-5:00 pm This course offers a critical examination of both personal and social dimension of human sexuality, and investigation into the meaning of sexual justice for church and society, and an opportunity to frame a constructive social ethic of sexuality for "keeping body and soul together" in these times. Required readings for Sexuality and the Social Order Body and Soul: Rethinking Sexuality As Justice-Love  The Ethics of Sex (New Dimensions to Religious Ethics)  Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology  Presbyterians and Human Sexuality 1991  CH 2030 History of Christianity I Kujawa-Holbrook 1:00-3:00 pm This survey course will cover the major social, cultural, and theological themes in western Christianity from the age of the apostles until the revolution. Through reading, lectures, discussions, and reflecting on primary text, the course will examine core theological issues and developments as reflected in the lives and struggles of leading men and women who have shaped the evolution of the faith. The course will also focus on the challenges and opportunities facing the chruch throughout the centuries, and how Christians struggled with the options open to them. Required readings for History of Christianity I Students are required to read ONE these titles by John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century  OR Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe  Readings in Christian Thought  In Her Words: Women's Writings in the History of Christian Thought  A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World  PT 2345 Dynamic Group Facilitation Skills Rodman 7:00-9:00 pm This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of group process and group facilitation skills for ministerial students. Students will receive an opportunity to practice their skills and to analyze and "read" group behavior. There will also be an opportunity for students to learn about a variety of process skills for different contexts and situations. PT 2835 Radical Hospitality: Evangelism in a Post-Christendom West Douglas 10:00 am-12:30 pm Many questions and issues surround current perspectives on evangelism. Evangelism and evangelistic efforts seem to be of growing concern, particularly for mainline churches in the United States who are experiencing loss in membership while newer mega-churches are on the increase. At the same time, Christians in the West can no longer rest in the assumptions of Christendom and establishment that have guaranteed church membership in the past. This course will consider different understandings of evangelism and church-growth in light of these and other realities. The relationship between evangelism and the mission of God will frame the course. Questions and possibilites related to power dynamics, racism, and multiculturalism, "open communion," and "radical hospitality" will be considered. Missiological and pastoral implications of contemporary evangelism in and outside of parish settings will be stressed. Required readings for Radical Hospitality: Evangelism in a Post-Christendom West Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith  Christianity Rediscovered  Fireweed Evangelism Christian Hospitality in a Multi Faith World  The Continuing Conversion of the Church (The Gospel & Our Culture Series)  Radical Welcome: Embracing God, the Other and the Spirit of Transformation  
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