Interpreting 1 Peter

Dr. Jeannine Brown

NT 711 / NT 811
Course Dates: May 26–August 29, 2025
Residential Week: July 14–18, 2025
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee:

Are Christians bound to suffering in this world because of their faith in Christ? How should the church view the times in which they live and engage in the mission to which they are called? The letter of 1 Peter offers the church insight and encouragement in light of the challenges Christians have faced in living faithfully in various contexts. In this class, students will explore the first context into which the letter of 1 Peter was written. The goal will be to study its primary themes—holiness, hope, suffering, and Christian identity—in light of that first context to thoughtfully recontextualize this important letter for the church today. 

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Theophanizing Love: A Metaphysic of Creation

The Rev. Dr. Hans Boersma

ST 713 / ST 813
Course Dates: May 26–August 29
Residential Week: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee: TBD

The seventh-century theologian Maximus the Confessor famously insists that God “wills always and in all to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.” This course is an elaboration upon Maximus’s dictum. We will look at the creator-creature relationship through the lens of creation as the theophanizing of the beyond-being love of God. The result is a metaphysic of love that regards creation as grounded in the incarnation of the Logos and as mystagogical in character. Students will discuss the draft of Fr. Boersma’s forthcoming book, Theophanizing Love, which suggests that the hypostatic union, along with participation in the love (and being) of God, offers a perspective on the creator-creature relationship that is faithful to the patristic mindset and that corrects the disenchanted view of creation of modernity. 

The Christological Metaphysics of Scripture

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner

AT 750 / 850
Course dates: May 27–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 8-12
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

The late Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey once said that to understand Anglican theology we need to look not only at Hooker and the Elizabethan theologians but to the Caroline Divines. This class will examine the ascetical theology of the Caroline Divines, particularly their spirituality of the Holy Eucharist, priesthood, and Christian living in the parish. We will consider the works of Lancelot Andrewes, William Laud, Jeremy Taylor, and George Herbert.

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The Spirit of the Living Christ

The Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger

Course dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 8-12
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

Through locked doors, the Risen Christ appears to His disciples: Receive the Holy Spirit, He proclaims, breathing on them, bestowing upon them the One who is peace and the seal of the keys.  The Fourth Evangelist gives us the frame and the question for our course.  How should we understand the relation of the Son to the Spirit, in the Eternal Processions and in the Mission of these Persons in the earthly realm?  A cluster of theological tasks lie ahead: Does the Spirit proceed from the Father and (or through) the Son?  Is the birth of the Son an event in the Mystery of the Spirit?  Is Christ sinless and holy because of the agency of the Spirit?  How should we understand the Scriptural interplay between the Spirit resting upon the Son, driving Him where He will, and the Son’s bestowing the Breath of Life, the Spirit, upon the disciples?  We will examine Trinitarians who propose a Spirit Christology (S Coakley, T Weinandy); ecumenists who propose break-throughs in the Filioque debate (Y Congar, J Moltmann); Christologists who examine the nature of Christ’s sinlessness, and the possibility of sin in the Incarnate Word (K Barth, E Irving, A Nirmal), and the sovereignty of the Spirit in the body of Christ, the Church (S Bulgakov, L Boff).

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Introduction to Church Music

Dr. Geoffrey Williams

CM 501H
Course dates: May 26-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14-18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

This course introduces basic musical skills necessary for liturgical direction and officiating.  Each student is expected to become proficient in reading music, chanting, pointing collects and lessons, and an appropriate level of keyboard ability. The course also explores the history and development of Christian church music from the early church to the present. Students will be provided the framework for examining plainsong, Anglican chant, psalmody, and hymnody. 

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Dorothy L. Sayers and the Bible

Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson

BI 705/BI 805
Course dates: May 26-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14-18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) helps us to bridge the gap between how we read literature and how we read the Bible. Raised by an Anglican priest, Sayers was well-versed in the tradition’s way of reading Scripture. She was a scholar (one of the first female graduates of Oxford University), a playwright, and a novelist. Although Sayers became famous for her mystery novels, her plays are her most theologically rich works of art, and she writes nonfiction in defense of their meaning. In conversation with Sayers, students will explore how to read spiritually, engaging her plays, her translations (particularly her Divine Comedy), and her non-fiction (especially The Mind of the Maker and Letters to a Diminished Church).

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Medieval Mothers of the Church

Dr. Lauren Whitnah

CH 711/CH 811
Course dates: July 21–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 22-26
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

This course will consider the experiences of women in the late antique and medieval church (c. 200 to c. 1450). The course will concentrate on the writings of medieval women in Latin Christendom, rather than writings about them, as students work exclusively with primary sources. By reading the words of martyrs, abbesses, missionaries, scholars, and mothers, students will gain understanding of the multifaceted experiences of medieval Christian women. 

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Old Testament Survey 1

TBD

OT 521H
Course Dates: July 21–August 29
Residential Week: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee: $115
 

This course is designed to introduce students to the ongoing vitality of the Old Testament for the ministry and mission of the church. After addressing key interpretive issues and basic exegetical practices, the course introduces key issues in the study of the Old Testament with a focus on historical context, literary dynamics, and theological and ethical challenges in Scripture. At the end of the course, students should have a new appreciation for the Old Testament as an integrated whole, and for its contributions to the Christian journey.

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Practical Liturgics for the Parish Priest

TBD

LT 601H
Course dates: July 21-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21-25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

The goal of this course is to prepare those intending to serve as priests in the Anglican tradition in all aspects of liturgical priestcraft. We will focus on the principles undergirding Western ceremonial and its application to Anglican liturgies, along with vestments, the furnishings of a church, the liturgical calendar, and lectionaries. The centerpiece of the course will be the celebration of the Mass in all its possible varieties (sung and spoken, ad orientem and versus populum, traditional and contemporary language), along with Christian initiation (baptism and confirmation), Holy Matrimony, Christian Burial, and the special liturgies of the liturgical year.

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Systematic Theology 1

The Rev. Dr. Tom Holtzen

ST 501H
Course dates: July 21-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21-25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $115

The first in a two-course sequence of Christian doctrine from the Anglican perspective covering Divine Revelation, Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Faith, Creation, Original Sin, the Trinity, Christology, and Pneumatology. This course will examine the major Christian doctrines from their biblical foundations through their historical developments to their modern expressions. Particular attention will be given to how Anglicans have understood and received these doctrines and their importance in the life of the church.

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