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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Christian ethics attempts to reflect in a clear, consistent and accountable way on the moral significance of the church’s claims regarding the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Theological ethics thus requires attentiveness to basic Christian convictions regarding God, the Church, and the world. Moreover, with the power of the Holy Spirit and in the midst of a worshiping people of God, it requires the cultivation of wisdom and discernment to form lives capable of embodying the holiness, righteousness, justice, compassion and truth to which we are called in Christ. Therefore, Christian ethics requires a commitment to the life of the Church, a life that is joined to a love for the world for which Jesus died.
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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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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 546 546 Justice, Peace and the Biblical Story (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 711 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Life, Theology & Witness (3 SH)
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This course is a study of the themes, assumptions, methods, movements and /or debates within the broad and complex field of contemporary theology. This course will change each time it is offered, pursuing different themes and trajectories (e.g., narrative, feminist, black, womanist, or postmodern theologies). Thus, it may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CTT 634 or by permission of the instructor.