Course descriptions and scheduling are subject to change by administrative decision. See course offerings booklet for current offerings. Some courses will be offered on a two- or three-year rotation.
Understanding the Christian Tradition
Ethics (CTE)
CTE 702 Christian Ethics (3 SH)
...
Traditional churches and non-institutional movements of Christians who draw on the heritage of the sixteenth-century Anabaptists are now found around the world, and include more than two million baptized members. This course will consider the teaching, preaching, writing, and active witness of Anabaptist-related groups in many different places, including engagement with socio-economic injustice, proclamation of the gospel in diverse religious settings, facing into political and environmental challenges, and responding to war and other situations of violence. The course also emphasizes ways that North American churches can receive and give gifts within this global faith community.
CTT 634 Living Theology (3 SH)Anchor theology theology
...
Forty years ago John Howard Yoder wrote The Politics of Jesus. The central task of this book is to bring to the surface the social-political dimensions of the Gospel of Jesus Christ—as displayed throughout the New Testament (which includes showing the pacifist implications of its message). The Politics of Jesus was deliberately intended to be a broadly evangelical book with clear ecumenical sensibilities—speaking to a wide range of scholars and other interested Christians. It was a book calling for a paradigm shift. This course will engage the following question: Taking cues from Yoder’s creative work, what might it look like to articulate afresh a call to embody the good news of Jesus Christ, within the body of Christ, for the sake of our present world? Put differently, what does The Politics of Jesus look like when remixed for the second decade in this new century?
CTT 711 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Life, Theology & Witness (3 SH)Anchor bonhoeffer bonhoeffer
...