Courses by MDiv Art of Ministry
Projected Through 2015
Show Course Offerings for 2012-2013
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.
Courses listed within square brackets are not offered in 2012-2013, but are expected to be offered in future years.
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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
[HDS 2296] |
[Academic Culture and Religion: An Introductory Course] |
[HDS 2871] |
[Church Ministry in a Digital Age: Preaching, Worship, Teaching, Communication, and Administration] |
Administration and Leadership |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Denominational Polity
The Religious History of American Women: Seminar |
[HDS 2477] |
[Catholicism Faces Modernity: Classics of Twentieth Century Roman Catholicism] |
[HDS 2479] |
[Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology] |
Baptist Polity, Practice, and History |
United Methodist Polity |
Lutheran Confessional Theology |
[HDS 2964] |
[Pentecostal Polity] |
United Church of Christ Polity |
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches, and Controversies |
Pastoral Care and Counseling
Job and the Problem of Suffering |
[HDS 1503] |
[Gospel Stories of Women] |
[HDS 1504] |
[Feminist Biblical Interpretation] |
Augustine and His Heretics |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
[HDS 2493] |
[Literature and the Pastoral Imagination: Seminar] |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society |
Ethics, Punishment and Race |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
Spiritual Care and Counseling |
[HDS 2931] |
[Risk and Resilience in Adolescent Development: Seminar] |
Advanced Spiritual Counseling: Taking Care of Others, Taking Care of Self |
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques |
Clinical Chaplaincy: Interfaith Caregiving Skills and Practice |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year: Incarnation to Pascha |
Clinical Case Studies in Psychology and Religion |
Buddhist Psychology: Theory and Practice |
The Shock of the New |
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female |
The Body and its Moral Cultivation: Buddhist Sources |
Poetry and Religion |
Space and Place: Seminar |
Ritualization, Play, and Transitional Phenomena |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Preaching and Worship
Job and the Problem of Suffering |
Law in the World of the Bible |
Introduction to the New Testament |
Historical Jesus |
[HDS 1503] |
[Gospel Stories of Women] |
[HDS 1504] |
[Feminist Biblical Interpretation] |
The Apostle Paul: His Letters, His Cities, and His Legacy |
[HDS 1536] |
[Apocalyptic Literature] |
Greek Exegesis of John |
[HDS 1549] |
[Greek Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew] |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] |
[HDS 1748] |
[The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite] |
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition |
[HDS 1751] |
[Early Christian Thought 3: The Syriac Tradition] |
Augustine and His Heretics |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Performing the Body: Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Christian Worship |
[HDS 2224] |
[Readings in Christian Latin: Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels] |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
Ritual, Culture and Postcolonial Imaginations |
[HDS 2274] |
[Christianity between Colonialism and Postcolonialism] |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
[HDS 2402] |
[Introduction to Theological Thinking] |
[HDS 2410] |
[Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology] |
[HDS 2493] |
[Literature and the Pastoral Imagination: Seminar] |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society |
[HDS 2871] |
[Church Ministry in a Digital Age: Preaching, Worship, Teaching, Communication, and Administration] |
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar |
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: Incarnation to Pascha |
Virginia Woolf and Religion |
Curating the Sermon: Preaching and the Arts |
The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History |
[HDS 3369] |
[Readings in the Islamic Archive of Africa] |
[HDS 3370] |
[Knowledge and Authority in Muslim Societies] |
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female |
Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies and their Critical Interpretations |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place |
The Last Things: Religious, Theological and Cultural Perspectives in Eschatology |
Feminist Environmental Philosophy and Theology |
[HDS 3917] |
[Feminist Cross Cultural Perspectives on Beliefs and Practices] |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Public Leadership, Community Organizing, and Planning
[HDS 1503] |
[Gospel Stories of Women] |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students |
[HDS 2274] |
[Christianity between Colonialism and Postcolonialism] |
Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s |
Public Religion and Civil Society: Learning from Indian and American Experiences |
Marx and His Readers |
Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
[HDS 2403] |
[Theology and Culture: Seminar] |
Religion and American Public Life |
Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in the U.S. |
[HDS 2633] |
[Theology and Power: Seminar] |
The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Seminar |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society |
Christian Perspectives on War and Peace |
Ethics, Punishment and Race |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar |
Administration and Leadership |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year: Incarnation to Pascha |
The Shock of the New |
Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches, and Controversies |
[HDS 3366] |
[Islam in West Africa] |
The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History |
Islam, Modernity and Politics |
[HDS 3370] |
[Knowledge and Authority in Muslim Societies] |
Poetry and Religion |
Space and Place: Seminar |
Ritualization, Play, and Transitional Phenomena |
The World's Religions in Multicultural America - Case Studies in Religious Pluralism |
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 |
Job and the Problem of Suffering |
Law in the World of the Bible |
Introduction to the New Testament |
Historical Jesus |
Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature |
Genesis: Narrative Artistry and Theological Meanings |
History and Historiography in the Ancient Near East |
[HDS 1503] |
[Gospel Stories of Women] |
[HDS 1504] |
[Feminist Biblical Interpretation] |
[HDS 1536] |
[Apocalyptic Literature] |
Greek Exegesis of John |
[HDS 1544] |
[The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World] |
[HDS 1549] |
[Greek Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew] |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] |
[HDS 1748] |
[The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite] |
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition |
[HDS 1751] |
[Early Christian Thought 3: The Syriac Tradition] |
Augustine and His Heretics |
Joseph and Esther: Seminar |
[HDS 1803] |
[Midrash: The Figure of Abraham: Seminar] |
The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar |
[HDS 1816] |
[The Song at the Sea: Seminar] |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students |
Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar |
[HDS 2224] |
[Readings in Christian Latin: Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels] |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
[HDS 2274] |
[Christianity between Colonialism and Postcolonialism] |
[HDS 2296] |
[Academic Culture and Religion: An Introductory Course] |
Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
[HDS 2402] |
[Introduction to Theological Thinking] |
[HDS 2410] |
[Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology] |
[HDS 2479] |
[Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology] |
[HDS 2490] |
[Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest] |
[HDS 2491] |
[Spiritual Formation and the Life of Study: Seminar] |
[HDS 2493] |
[Literature and the Pastoral Imagination: Seminar] |
Religion and American Public Life |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
[HDS 2634] |
[God: Seminar] |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society |
Christian Perspectives on War and Peace |
Ethics, Punishment and Race |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
Unitarian Universalist Religious Education: Seminar |
[HDS 2871] |
[Church Ministry in a Digital Age: Preaching, Worship, Teaching, Communication, and Administration] |
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar |
[HDS 2931] |
[Risk and Resilience in Adolescent Development: Seminar] |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year: Incarnation to Pascha |
Clinical Case Studies in Psychology and Religion |
Virginia Woolf and Religion |
Buddhist Psychology: Theory and Practice |
The Shock of the New |
[HDS 3369] |
[Readings in the Islamic Archive of Africa] |
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female |
The Body and its Moral Cultivation: Buddhist Sources |
[HDS 3576] |
[Buddhist Ethics] |
Bible, Literature, Culture: The Song of Songs |
[HDS 3702] |
[Religion, Diaspora, and Migration: Seminar] |
[HDS 3721] |
[The Self Writing the Self: Autobiography and Religion] |
Poetry and Religion |
Space and Place: Seminar |
Ritualization, Play, and Transitional Phenomena |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place |
The Last Things: Religious, Theological and Cultural Perspectives in Eschatology |
Feminist Environmental Philosophy and Theology |
[HDS 3917] |
[Feminist Cross Cultural Perspectives on Beliefs and Practices] |
Hindu Ethics: Seminar |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
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