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CC520 Trauma Informed Care in Ministry

This course will equip Christian leaders to  approach ministry from a trauma informed perspective. Students will explore theological topics related to trauma and suffering, understand the broad-reaching impact of  psychological trauma on individuals and  communities,...

BL545 Galatians

In a white heat of passion, Paul wrote to  the churches he founded in Galatia to  defend what he called “the truth of the gospel” against a particularly insidious imposter. This course will explore Paul’s defense of his gospel with a view to what  it...

BL512 Scripture’s Use of Scripture

The New Testament is fundamental to the development of Nicene Trinitarian doctrine. This course will focus on that forward movement- how the NT texts helped shape later conciliar Trinitarian  theology- as well as on the corresponding backward movement- how later...

TH505 Creation Calling

Creation is loved into being and sustained by the Triune God, who also has a glorious eschatological future for it. Human beings are called to keep it in ways that are consonant with God’s purposes, but instead, creation calls out in protest at having to bear the...

TH490 Credo

In this senior seminar, students will write a paper of approximately 25-35 pages in which they will give an account of their personal theology by articulating their beliefs concerning the central loci of Christian teaching, in conversation with their respective...