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CTE 730 Human Sexuality: Living with Questions, Living in Faithfulness (3 SH)

We live in a time of substantial confusion regarding sexual beliefs and behaviors. rapid change and diverse understandings about human sexuality - both identities and practices.  Such a context calls for theological clarity about sexuality insight and pastoral wisdom for those providing church leadership. This   The course will engage students in theological, biblical and intercultural reflection about the meaning and purpose of human sexuality from a Christian perspective.  In conversation with biblical, historical and contemporary writings, this course will challenge participants to articulate the sexual theology that informs their ministry and practice.

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This course emphasizes the social and theological development of the history of Christianity from the Early Modern period to the 21st century.  The course will focus on expansion, cross cultural encounter, events, persons, issues and movements that have shaped Christianity (ies) in Europe, Colonial America and the United States.  We will interpret this history by giving attention to social and ecclesial issues of power and authority.

CTH 529 Anabaptist History & TheologyCTH 611 Prayer in the Christian Tradition

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Theology is the essential and ongoing task of faithful reflection on our life lived with deliberation in the presence of God. Theology involves and engages all we are and all we do, and demands our attentiveness to everything around us. The theological integrity of the Christian community is grounded in this task of disciplined, discerning examination of the meaning of daily life in Christ. When we do this task well, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it illuminates everything we do. Through an engagement with a variety of texts, written and otherwise, this course will help us know what it means to embrace “living theology."

CTT 644 Politics of Jesus Remixed

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?

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