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Class: January 15-25, 2025 | Travel Days: January 13-14 and 26
Description
With Rome as the backdrop, this course will take place at the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Centro Pro Unione and will focus on the history and development of Anglican ecclesiology as an ecumenical enterprise. Participants will share in the Daily Office and Mass, participate in events around Rome in observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, as well as the following:
Registration Deadline: Friday, June 31, 2024
Instructors
The Rev’d Matthew S. C. Olver, Ph.D. matthew.olver@livingchurch.org
Executive Director and Publisher | The Living Church Foundation
Affiliate Faculty Member, Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Christopher Wells, Ph.D. christopher.wells@anglicancommunion.org
Director of Unity, Faith and Order | The Anglican Communion Office
Affiliate Faculty Member, Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Endorsement from a past participants:
“It was a pleasure and a privilege to participate in this extraordinary pilgrimage-course! We had the remarkable opportunity to integrate intellectual, relational, and spiritual dimensions of the subject as we delved into excellent reading materials, entered into conversation with leaders of ecumenism in Rome, and worshipped together and with others of various ecclesial traditions. Fr. Olver, who organized and led the course with Dr. Christopher Wells, is a joy to learn from and to be with. The many remarkable offerings that he prepared for the group included Vespers with Pope Francis and a meeting at the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, and a host of holy sites throughout Rome. This was a once-in-a-lifetime, deeply memorable experience. I recommend the course highly to anyone interested in rendering the unity of the Church more visible in our time.”
Sylvia Gosnell, J.D., PhD
Clinical Psychologist and former Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School
“The experience of this course is not just about learning Church history or visiting historic sites, but of being able to live the history of the Church and participate in dialogue with current-day ecumenical movements based in Rome, especially those historically oriented towards the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholic Church. Much like other learning experiences offered by Nashotah House, it is not simply a matter of instruction, but of formation in ecclesiology and ecumenism.”
Fr. Matthew Perreault
Nashotah House alumnus, ‘19
Course details:
The course will meet for six, three-hour sessions in Rome for seminar-style discussions led by the professors, incorporating limited lecture time. Students will be expected to have read all of the material in advance. Non-student pilgrims may sit in on the class. A complete syllabus will be made available no later than November 1. The course sessions are as follows:
M.Div., M.M., M.P.M., Diploma in Anglican Studies, and visiting students will write a 15-page academic research paper on a topic approved by one of the professors. M.T.S., S.T.M., and D.Min. students will write a 20-page academic research paper on a topic approved by one of the professors.
For general questions or questions about the course, contact Fr. Olver [matthew.olver@livingchurch.org]
For questions regarding course credit , contact the Registrar of Nashotah House [registrar@nashotah.edu]