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.
Ethics (CTE)
CTE 640 Topics (1-3 SH)
This course provides an in-depth engagement with a particular aspect of ethical reasoning or engagement.
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The teachings of Jesus have reached across many centuries with a strong witness against violence: “Love your enemies.” People in many cultures have found the Sermon on the Mount foundational for understanding the core of Jesus’ ethical teaching and practice. The earliest Christians placed this instruction at the forefront of their witness on what it means to be Christian. Are we willing to be instructed in this way of Christ today, as the movement takes form in the third millennium? This course builds on the Old Testament Hebrew Bible Jewish backgrounds for Jesus’ teaching. Two further horizons are surveyed: the resonance with this core (Matthew 5-7) in other ethical instruction of the New Testament, and the strong echoes down through Christian history where this teaching has been translated into lived practices.
CTE 730 Human Sexuality: Living with Questions, Living in Faithfulness (3 SH)
We live in a time of rapid change and diverse understandings about human sexuality - both identities and practices. Such a context calls for theological insight and pastoral wisdom for those providing church leadership. The course will engage students in theological, biblical and intercultural reflection about the meaning and purpose of human sexuality. In conversation with biblical, historical and contemporary writings, this course will challenge participants to articulate the sexual theology that informs their ministry and practice.
Biblical Foundations for Justice and Peacemaking (3 SH)
See BVG 541See BIBL 560.
Faith-Based Social Transformation (3 SH)
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This survey course will acquaint students with the almost 500-year sweep of Anabaptist/Mennonite history, experience and theological reflection since 1525. This story of a movement and faith communities will be viewed against the background of the spiritual, social, geographical and cultural dimensions of the times. The course will be structured around key turning points in history and theological convictions with the ultimate goal of better understanding the relevance of Anabaptist history and theology for the contemporary life of the church in local and global contexts.
CTH 611 Prayer in the Christian Tradition (3 SH)
The Prayer in the Christian Tradition course invites careful attention to the practice of corporate and personal prayer within the believing community from Old Testament times to the present. Reading, class discussion, course assignments, and experiments in prayer provide a context for learning together intellectually and experientially. The course is designed to orient students to the scope of salvation history from the perspective of prayer and to invite them to deepen the formative and transformative nature of relational dialogue – God with us and we with God.
CTH 640 Topics (1-3 SH)
This course provides an in-depth engagement with a contemporary question in the history of the Christian movement.
CTH 641 Mennonite History & Thought (3 SH)
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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 640 Topics (1-3 SH)
This course provides an in-depth engagement with a specific issue in Christian theology.
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CTT 721 Contemporary Theological Issues (3 SH)
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