Participants in CCT observe, explore, and critique the worship practices of the anchor congregations as one way to uncover the local operative theology and ethics and to learn what worship is and might be. This course will improves the understanding of and responsiveness to social movements, cultural variety, and global issues. We will carefully examine the historical consciousness articulated by American theologians or other historians, not only in Christian tradition but also outside of Christian context. A graduate course on the ecumenical history, theology, and practices, of feminist women at worship. We will learn how to plan and perform feminist rituals based on women’s experiences drawn from literature, films, art, and participants’ own lives. We will critically reflect on these rituals based on feminist liturgical and theological scholarship. This course will trace the history and structure of the variety of religious in the US from the 17th to 21st centuries and explore the many ways that they have responded to as well as influenced North American culture.
This interdisciplinary seminar will explore discourses that intersect postcolonialism and New Testament interpretation. We will study key concepts and major theoretical works in postcolonial discourses, examine the complex interplay of colonial and resisting voices in the NT, interrogates the colonizing practices of NT interpretations, and explores postcolonial interpretations that decolonize both the text and the readers. This M.Div. required course offers an introduction to the contemporary research and perspectives on both the Pauline and non-Pauline epistles. In addition to the reading selected letters in light of ancient epistolography and rhetorical practices, we will also pay attention to the socio-historical situations of these letters and of their interpreters. This course will explore the theological and ethical reasons for taking the body seriously as a site and topic of theological reflection. This class will examine the ideas of St. Augustine, Reinhold Niebuhr and Malcolm X about the nature of human existence and those qualities of human beings requiring redemption. We will give special attention to the themes of sin as pride and sin as sensuality. The course is a seminar examining the themes of servant hood/surrogacy, the Black Christ/historical Jesus, Christ/Christa, atonement/abuse in womanist and feminist theologies in the context of the churches of the Center for Community Transformation.
This intensive course explores Womanist and Feminist methodology. Students will examine race, gender, class and sexuality as categories of inquiry shaping Womanist and Feminist approaches to care and counseling.
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