Previous Years' Course Catalogues

This course introduces students to the expansion, proliferation, and transformation of Christian movements from 1491 to the present day. It focuses primarily on the context of the Americas to illustrate the centrality of colonialism to the last five hundred years of Christian history, and argues that Christian movements which Reinforce, resist, and adapt to colonialism are the rule, not the exception. We will explore this relationship through specific historical case studies, focusing on the particularities of specific ‚¬Å“Christianities‚¬ to hone our skills in historical analysis. As we learn how to study Christian history, we will also learn why these histories matter. Regularly throughout the course, we will examine how contemporary Christian communities understand the histories we learn, why they understand them in this way, and how we hold the tension between those understandings and our historical studies. This course requires no previous grounding in Christian history or theology. Prior experience with the study of history at the undergraduate or graduate level is helpful, but not a prerequisite.

This course introduces students to the expansion, proliferation, and transformation of Christian movements from 1491 to the present day. It focuses primarily on the context of the Americas to illustrate the centrality of colonialism to the last five hundred years of Christian history, and argues that Christian movements which reinforce, resist, and adapt to colonialism are the rule, not the exception. We will explore this relationship through specific historical case studies, focusing on the particularities of specific Christianities to hone our skills in historical analysis. As we learn how to study Christian history, we will also learn why these histories matter. Regularly throughout the course, we will examine how contemporary Christian communities understand the histories we learn, why they understand them in this way, and how we hold the tension between those understandings and our historical studies. This course requires no previous grounding in Christian history or theology. Prior experience with the study of history at the undergraduate or graduate level is helpful, but not a prerequisite.

Through our close reading of authors contributing to the Western tradition of Christian mystical theology from origins to the present, students willleam to recognize the concerns, methods and forms of expression used by mystical theologians. Students will hone their skills for thinking theologically while practicing tasks such as introducing the writings of the mystics to lay people through teaching and preaching.

Surveys the history of Christianity from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Highlights the impact of rationalist and revivalist movements, the rise of Christian mission, developments in Roman Catholicism, the Church and modernity, the rise of global Christianity, the churches and development, Christianity and other religions.

Surveys the history of Christianity from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Highlights the impact of rationalist and revivalist movements, the rise of Christian mission, developments in Roman Catholicism, the Church and modernity, the rise of global Christianity, the churches and development, Christianity and other religions.

This course explores the meaning of sainthood in different Christian traditions and cultures through the centuries by emphasizing the lives of unsuccessful candidates for sainthood. Some of these many and diverse failures are venerated regardless of official opinions of their heroic virtue, while others are relics of forgotten events and struggles. Some may yet achieve formal recognition, and at least one is nobody at all!

This course explores the meaning of sainthood in different Christian traditions and cultures through the centuries by emphasizing the lives of unsuccessful candidates for sainthood. Some of these many and diverse failures are venerated regardless of official opinions of their heroic virtue, while others are relics of forgotten events and struggles. Some may yet achieve formal recognition, and at least one is nobody at all!

This course explores the meaning of sainthood in different Christian traditions and cultures through the centuries by emphasizing the lives of unsuccessful candidates for sainthood. Some of these many and diverse failures are venerated regardless of official opinions of their heroic virtue, while others are relics of forgotten events and struggles. Some may yet achieve formal recognition, and at least one is nobody at all!

Seminar on the Book of Jeremiah involving detailed exegesis of selected passages with a view to using the text in the life of the Church.

Seminar on the Book of Jeremiah involving detailed exegesis of selected passages with a view to using the text in the life of the Church. Seminar format. Class participation, final paper.

Seminar on the Book of Jeremiah involving detailed exegesis of selected passages with a view to using the text in the life of the Church.

This course provides a survey of Eastern Christian teaching on the Triune God that focuses both on patristic and contemporary authors read in English. The course situates doctrine within the broader array of Holy Tradition (Scripture, Fathers,Councils, Creeds, Liturgy, Iconography, Hagiography, etc.), paying attention to the historical contexts in which various teachings arose and were defined. Comparisons will be made between Eastern and Western Christian approaches to certain questions, with some attention to ecumenical repercussions. Apophatic and antinomic approaches to theology will be emphasized as well as the connection between doctrine and spirituality.