Courses by MDiv Art of Ministry for 2012-2013
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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
Administration and Leadership |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Denominational Polity
The Religious History of American Women: Seminar |
Baptist Polity, Practice, and History |
United Methodist Polity |
Lutheran Confessional Theology |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Apostle Paul: His Letters, His Cities, and His Legacy |
Greek Exegesis of John |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition |
Augustine and His Heretics |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Performing the Body: Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Christian Worship |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
Ritual, Culture and Postcolonial Imaginations |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society |
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 |
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 |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |
Public Leadership, Community Organizing, and Planning
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
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 |
Religion and American Public Life |
Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in the U.S. |
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 |
The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History |
Islam, Modernity and Politics |
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 |
Greek Exegesis of John |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition |
Augustine and His Heretics |
Joseph and Esther: Seminar |
The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar |
Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa |
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate |
Religion and American Public Life |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
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 |
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 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 |
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female |
The Body and its Moral Cultivation: Buddhist Sources |
Bible, Literature, Culture: The Song of Songs |
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 |
Hindu Ethics: Seminar |
Communication Skills for Spanish Ministry |

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