Courses by MDiv Art of Ministry for 2011-2012
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The courses below, with the appropriate Field Education placements and with the approval of the Office of Ministry Studies, may satisfy the Arts of Ministry requirements for the MDiv program.
Please see the HDS Handbook for Students for descriptions of the Arts of Ministry, as well as related MDiv requirements.
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Administration and Program Development
Denominational Polity
Pastoral Care and Counseling
Preaching and Worship
Public Leadership, Community Organizing, and Planning
Religious Education and Spiritual Development
Administration and Program Development
Diversity and Domination in Theory, Scripture, and Society: Seminar |
Administration and Leadership |
Faith-Based Economic Development |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Denominational Polity
Reformation Masculinities and Confessional Sexualities, 1450-1700 |
Pentecostal Polity |
United Church of Christ Polity |
Presbyterian Polity |
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches, and Controversies |
Quranic Exegeses Through History: Themes, Questions, and Controversies |
Pastoral Care and Counseling
The Chosen People |
Jeremiah |
Feminist Biblical Interpretation |
Faith: Seminar |
Diversity and Domination in Theory, Scripture, and Society: Seminar |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
Friendship from A to Z: Aristotle to Zuckerberg |
Spiritual Care and Counseling |
Counseling - Practice and Theory: Seminar |
Advanced Spiritual Counseling: Taking Care of Others, Taking Care of Self |
Counseling for Practitioners - Addressing Trauma and Loss: Seminar |
Death and Dying in Life and Literature - A Clinical Pastoral Perspective |
The Dynamics of Black Preaching: Seminar |
God, Human Suffering, and the Minister |
Buddhism, Community, and Diversity: The Color of Practice |
Buddhist Thought in Action: Contemporary Expressions of Early Buddhist Teachings |
Community and Alterity in Africa |
The Politics of Storytelling |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Preaching and Worship
The Chosen People |
Jeremiah |
The Dead Sea Scrolls |
The Sermon as Source for Jewish History and Culture |
Feminist Biblical Interpretation |
The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World |
History of Ancient Christianity |
Women and Deceit in the Hebrew Bible |
Introduction to Christian Worship |
Strategies for Worship in Postmodernity |
Thin Places: Sacramental Theologies and Practices |
Readings in Christian Latin: Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels |
Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology |
Theology and the Literary Arts: Seminar |
History of Christian Thought: The Medieval West |
Sacred Music in History and Current Practice |
Introduction to Public Preaching |
Preaching in the Unitarian Universalist and Free Church Traditions: Seminar |
The American Spirit in Music |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year |
Children's Literature and Religious Education: Seminar |
Preaching for Social Change: Seminar |
The Dynamics of Black Preaching: Seminar |
Buddhist Thought in Action: Contemporary Expressions of Early Buddhist Teachings |
Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and Their Critical Interpretations |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place |
Feminist Cross Cultural Perspectives on Beliefs and Practices |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Public Leadership, Community Organizing, and Planning
Jewish Feminist Ethics |
Women, Justice, and Sharia |
Radical Religion in England and America, 1550-1750 |
Christianity between Colonialism and Postcolonialism |
Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s |
Theology and Culture: Seminar |
Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in the U.S. |
Religion and the Public Intellectual |
Theology and The Everyday |
Introduction to Political Theology |
The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Seminar |
Diversity and Domination in Theory, Scripture, and Society: Seminar |
Race, Ethics and the U.S. Prison System |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
Friendship from A to Z: Aristotle to Zuckerberg |
Administration and Leadership |
The Dynamics of Black Preaching: Seminar |
Teaching with Courage and Passion |
Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indigenous Critic of American Religion and Politics |
Community and Alterity in Africa |
The World's Religions in Multicultural America - Case Studies in Religious Pluralism |
The Politics of Storytelling |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Religious Education and Spiritual Development
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets |
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings |
The Chosen People |
Jeremiah |
Prophecy in Ancient Israel |
Myth and Myth-Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World |
Introduction to the New Testament |
The Dead Sea Scrolls |
Feminist Biblical Interpretation |
The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World |
History of Ancient Christianity |
Women and Deceit in the Hebrew Bible |
Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar |
Readings in Christian Latin: Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels |
The Literature of Medieval Celtic Christianity: the Hagiographical Tradition |
Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology |
Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest |
Theology and The Everyday |
Theology and the Literary Arts: Seminar |
Faith: Seminar |
Unitarian Universalist Religious Education: Seminar |
Friendship from A to Z: Aristotle to Zuckerberg |
Death and Dying in Life and Literature - A Clinical Pastoral Perspective |
Children's Literature and Religious Education: Seminar |
Teaching with Courage and Passion |
Buddhist Thought in Action: Contemporary Expressions of Early Buddhist Teachings |
Community and Alterity in Africa |
Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth |
Buddhist Ethics |
For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature and the Arts in Muslim Cultures |
Angels: Messengers of God |
Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and Their Critical Interpretations |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place |
The Politics of Storytelling |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |

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