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Dr. Jeannine Brown (Click for biography)
NT 711 / NT 811
Course Dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee: $145
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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The Rev. Dr. Hans Boersma (Click for biography)
ST 713 / ST 813
Course Dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee: $145
Note: Auditors must receive permission from the instructor to register for this course. To do so, please contact the Registrar at registrar@nashotah.edu.
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 modernity’s disenchanted view of creation.
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The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner (Click for biography)
AT 750 / 850
Course dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
This course examines the metaphysical implications of the Anglican assertion that Scripture is “God’s Word written” (Article 20). The first part of the course will reflect on these implications more generally and theoretically (e.g. Origen, Augustine, Maximus, Wycliffe, Calvin, the rise of historicism). The second part will apply some of this theoretical material to the concrete challenge of writing a “Life of Jesus,” moving backwards chronologically, from modern attempts to the classical Christian tradition of the “Mysteries of Jesus” (Ludolph, Berulle, and the Anglican Lectionary). Coursework will include readings, discussions, presentations, and a final written project.
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The Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger (Click for biography)
Course dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
Note: Auditors must receive permission from the instructor to register for this course. To do so, please contact the Registrar (registrar@nashotah.edu)
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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Dr. Geoffrey Williams (Click for biography)
CM 501H
Course dates: June 9–July 18
On-Campus Dates: July 14–18
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
Note: Auditors must receive permission from the instructor to register for this course. To do so, please contact the Registrar (registrar@nashotah.edu)
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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Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson (Click for biography)
BI 705/BI 805
Course dates: May 26-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
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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Dr. Lauren Whitnah (Click for biography)
CH 711/CH 811
Course dates: May 26–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
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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OT 521H
Course Dates: July 21–August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community Life Fee: $145
Note: Auditors must receive permission from the instructor to register for this course. To do so, please contact the Registrar (registrar@nashotah.edu)
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 tools for studying 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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LT 601H
Course dates: July 21-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
Note: Auditors must receive permission from the instructor to register for this course. To do so, please contact the Registrar (registrar@nashotah.edu)
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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The Rev. Dr. Tom Holtzen (Click for biography)
ST 501H
Course dates: July 21-August 29
On-Campus Dates: July 21–25
Tuition: $1,800 (Credit) / $600 (Audit)
Community life fee: $145
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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Dr. Jeannine Brown
Dr. Brown is The David Price Professor of Biblical and Theological Foundations and the Director of Online Programs at Bethel Seminary, where she has taught for 25 years. She teaches students in areas of New Testament, hermeneutics, and integration. Her books include Scripture as Communication (2007, 2nd ed: 2021), Gospels as Stories (2020), Relational Integration between Psychology and Christian Theology (2018; co-author Steven J. Sandage), two commentaries on Matthew’s Gospel (2015, 2018), and a commentary on Philippians (2022).
She also co-edited the second edition of Jesus and the Gospels (2013). She has published numerous journal articles and book essays on the Gospels of Matthew and John, 1 Peter, and topics of hermeneutics, some published in Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and Horizons in Biblical Theology. Jeannine is a member of the team that revises the New International Version (NIV). She thoroughly enjoys teaching in churches and ministries on the topics of Bible interpretation and the New Testament. Jeannine is married to Tim Brown, a teacher and musician, and has two lovely daughters, Kate and Libby, two wonderful sons-in-law, and two absolutely enchanting grandchildren, Harrison and Daisy.
The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
Ephraim Radner (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, a seminary of the Anglican tradition at the University of Toronto. He is the author and editor of several books on the theology of the church, biblical interpretation, and the Holy Spirit, including A Profound Ignorance: Modern Pneumatology; The End of the Church; Leviticus; A Brutal Unity; Time and Word; and A Time to Keep, a work on human mortality. A volume on Christian politics, Mortal Goods, appeared in 2024. He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Jewish Christianity and Messianic Judaism. A former church worker in Burundi and an Anglican/Episcopal priest, he has served parishes in various parts of the United States (including Pueblo, Colorado) and has been active in the affairs of the global Anglican Communion. He is married to the Rev. Annette Brownlee, also of Wycliffe College, and they have two grown children. They now reside in Denver, Colorado.
The Rev. Dr. Hans Boersma
Prolific and internationally noted theologian Fr. Hans Boersma came to Nashotah House in 2019. Prior to this, he taught at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada for fourteen years. Fr. Boersma also taught for six years at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, and served several years in the local church as a pastor. Along the way, Fr. Boersma has emerged as a leading voice among Protestant and evangelical theologians exploring and appropriating the riches of the Catholic tradition.
Fr. Boersma's interests range across a variety of areas: patristic theology, twentieth-century Catholic thought, and spiritual interpretation of Scripture. In each of these areas, he sets out to retrieve the sacramental ontology of the pre-modern tradition. This retrieval (ressourcement) of the Great Tradition’s sacramental view of reality has been at the heart of his publications over the past fifteen years.
Fr. Boersma and his wife Linda have five children and thirteen grandchildren (and their Golden Retriever Penny deserves special mention). Fr. Boersma serves as a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.
The Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger
Kate Sonderegger is Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary, where she has lived and taught since 2002. She is a priest of the Diocese of Virginia, affiliated with St Mary’s Church, Arlington. Prior to her post at Virginia Seminary, Kate taught for 15 years at Middlebury College in Vermont, and still claims New England ties, including a long-suffering devotion to the Boston Red Sox. Kate has published on the theology of Karl Barth, and is at work on her own systematic theology (Volume 1: The Doctrine of God and Volume 2: The Trinity: Processions and Persons, Fortress Press.) Volume 3: Divine Missions, Christology, and Pneumatology is nearing completion.
Dr. Geoffrey Williams
Acclaimed for his “deeply hued countertenor” (The New York Times), Dr. Williams is in demand as a singer, conductor, teacher, and early music specialist throughout the United States and abroad. He is Assistant Professor of Church Music and Director of St. Mary’s Chapel at Nashotah House.
Dr. Williams hails from the Midwest and began his musical life as a treble in the American Boychoir. A devoted church musician, he has served the parishes of Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church in Champaign, Illinois; St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square; Trinity Church in Princeton; Washington National Cathedral; and was for a decade a Gentleman of the Choir of Men and Boys at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, in New York City.
He is founder and artistic director of the GRAMMY-nominated male classical vocal quartet New York Polyphony. Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” (National Public Radio) New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. The four men, “singers of superb musicianship and vocal allure,” (The New Yorker) give vibrant, modern voice to repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to cutting-edge compositions. Their dedication to innovative programming, as well as a focus on rare and rediscovered Renaissance and medieval works, has not only earned New York Polyphony two GRAMMY nominations and wide acclaim, but also helped to move early music into the classical mainstream.
Dr. Williams is married to Emilie, who teaches pre-K to eighth grade music at Adeline Montessori School in Summit, and they have two sons, Ellis Michael and Peter Grafton.
Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson (PhD, Baylor University) is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Reading for the Love of God, The Scandal of Holiness (winner of a Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit), and Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky (winner of a 2018 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award). Hooten Wilson speaks around the world on topics as varied as Russian novelists, Catholic thinkers, and Christian ways of reading.
Dr. Lauren Whitnah
Dr. Lauren Whitnah has served as Dean of Nashotah House since August 2024. A medieval historian, Whitnah previously served on the teaching faculty of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and as research manager and associate director of the university’s Global Computing Lab.
Whitnah holds a PhD in Medieval Studies and Master of Medieval Studies, both from the University of Notre Dame; a Master of Studies in History from the University of Oxford; and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Gordon College.
As senior lecturer at UT, she taught more than 400 students annually in interdisciplinary classes exploring the history, politics, culture, art, religion, economics, and literature of Western Europe from ca. 300 to ca.1500. During the decade she taught Medieval and Renaissance studies at the university, the number of students pursuing majors and minors in that discipline tripled. Whitnah also served on the university’s Faculty Senate and as co-chair of the Faculty Senate Teaching and Learning Committee.
Whitnah has received numerous awards as an educator, including the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at UT and the Award for Teaching Excellence from the Southeastern Medieval Association.
Whitnah’s academic focus centers on devotion to saints and understandings of sacred place in the High Middle Ages, particularly in northern England and southern Scotland. She has published and presented on topics including liturgical developments in veneration in the twelfth century, Aelred of Rievaulx and the saints of Hexham, and women at the shrine of St Cuthbert in Durham. She has taught at Episcopal and Anglican churches on a wide range of topics, including Benedictine monasticism, the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, and medieval devotional art.
Fr. Holtzen has a passion for teaching classical theology as practical learning for life and ministry. He teaches both Systematic and Historical Theology at Nashotah House. His professional interests include Christian doctrine, especially the Trinity, Incarnation, soteriology, grace, justification, sacramental theology, Anglican theology, and the theologies of Sts Augustine and John Henry Newman. He teaches elective courses such as “Augustine,” “The Trinity,” “Newman’s Lectures on Justification,” “The Theology of Richard Hooker,” “The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion,” and “Anglican Eucharistic Theology.” He has written many academic articles for publication, given numerous papers at academic conferences, and written a number of pieces for popular publications.
Since his ordination in 2003, Fr. Holtzen has served as an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Milwaukee. He is priest-in-charge at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Ashippun, Wisconsin, one many area churches founded as missions by Nashotah House over 150 years ago. He served on the Diocese of Milwaukee’s Task Force on Human Sexuality, co-authoring the report. He served as a retreat leader.
Some of Fr. Holtzen’s personal interests include ultralight backpacking, farming, fishing, camping, woodworking, and poetry.
