The CTS PhD Student Association is a professional organization that works to enrich the quality of social and academic life for doctoral students at Chicago Theological Seminary. This Moodle course is maintained as a space for sharing academic resources and building community among scholars at CTS.
The goal of the course is for each student to become familiar with the history and method of liberation theology, to be able to assess this theological method critically, and to employ it constructively in regard to one context.
This course will examine how race, gender and class as socially constructed entities have shaped the analysis and interpretations of religious thought and practice in the African American context in the 20th century.
The aim of the course is to gain an overview of important contributions to the understanding of the Christian faith through the first 1600 years and to explore selected contributions in detail, in order to gain a sense of the wealth and diversity of material produced in this period.
This course will trace the history and explore the variety of religions in the United States from the 17th to 21st centuries and explore the many ways that they have responded to as well as influenced American culture.
We are studying select books of the Hebrew Bible, focusing on prophetic and wisdom literature as well as several short narrative and apocalyptic texts. Time permitting, we also explore a few apocryphal and pseudepigraphic works of the Second Temple period.
This course will explore basic issues related to a critical discussion of Eucharistic liturgy and practice and to other eating and drinking rituals. How might the way we eat and drink together (liturgically and otherwise) in the community of faith also be formative of forms of life of hospitality, of sharing, of memory and hope?
This course is designed to facilitate the comprehensive construction and writing of the student’s own theological position on key Christian doctrines and ministry in preparation for oral examination and graduation with the M.Div. degree from CTS.
The course is designed to enable student to develop basic theological vocabulary, be instructed in the major doctrines commonly held within ecumenical Christianity, become knowledgeable of one of the principal interpreters of Christian faith, St. Augustine. It also aims to articulate one's own theological perspective with critical reviews of readings and discussions in class.
