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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This course explores the origins of early Christian morality with particular attention to the different expressions of ethical discourse and behavior within the New Testament. The course will examine how early Christian writers appropriated ideas from Jewish and Greco-Roman moral traditions related to gender, sexuality, community, poverty and wealth. Special attention will be devoted to understanding early Christian ethical teachings and their influence on contemporary Christian communities. Students will be encouraged to identify the implications of these letters for contemporary Church debates. Analysis of texts in original Greek is encouraged.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This course introduces students to a variety of exegetical approaches used by African-American biblical scholars and other scholars of African descent. The course begins with an analysis of historicalcritical methods and examines reasons why this approach presents a "hermeneutical dilemma" for African-American interpreters. Thecourse then provides a historical framework for understanding the evolution of how people of African descent have creatively interpreted the Bible, given their socio-political location and ideological concerns. Special attention will be devoted to womanist biblical hermeneutics and South African exegetical methods. Students will also have an opportunity to assess the usefulness of African-American biblical hermeneutics for preaching and teaching within their respective communities of faith.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This course introduces students to some of the diverse representations of gender and sexuality within early Christian writings. Students will analyze the different social and historical conditions that gave rise to the representations of both males and females within the ancient world as a springboard for assessing how early Christian authors developed discourses about gender and sexuality. Throughout the course, students will compare and contrast the different roles of females and males, and the various power relationships that existed within early Christian communities. This course will also provide students an opportunity to analyze and evaluate contemporary discussions about sexuality within mainline denominations.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron Early Christian writings were produced in a rich context of religious and ethnic diversity. This course will examine how ethnic diversity is represented in early Christian writings and explore the various social, political, religious and cultural factors that gave rise to such representations. Utilizing ancient ethnographic theory, students will be given an opportunity to assess how ethnic discourse influenced the construction of the New Testament and other early Christian writings. Students will be encouraged to explore how ethnic diversity within early Christian writings raises questions about how we handle diversity in the contemporary Church and society.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This advanced seminar provides an opportunity to interpret the Bible from a variety of global perspectives with emphasis on assessing the different hermeneutical assumptions that inform both traditional and nontraditional methods of interpretation. Biblical scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron This course will explore the origins of Christianity in the Nile Valley region of Africa. We will begin with a geographical, historical, and cultural overview of Egypt and Ethiopia and analyze the ways in which these places are represented in Biblical and extra-Biblical sources. We will then survey literary and archaeological sources from different parts of Egypt, including Alexandria and the Delta, the Fayyum, and Thebes, as well as various areas of Ethiopia, with special attention devoted to the Axumite Empire and the interactions between this empire and other parts of the Greco-Roman world. By the end of the course, students will understand the development of Nile Valley Christianity and its significance within the broad historical framework of what is considered early Christianity.
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3.00 Credits
Stephanie L. Sauvé Students will sharpen their research skills and hone the writing and editing abilities necessary to write a doctoral-level thesis or ministry project. Each student will develop a model thesis proposal.
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3.00 Credits
Marcia B. Bailey The purpose of this course is to deepen students' understanding of the dynamics at work in the church and in themselves as we seek both to transform and to be transformed. Together we will ask the questions: How do I experience God's Spirit at work to revive my place of ministry? How do I experience God's Spirit at work to revive myself? This class will be experiential. We will focus on our own transformation as we talk about the transformation process possible around us.
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3.00 Credits
Mark Brummitt Recognizing that the Old Testament-the whole Old Testament-is no less 'Scripture' than the New, we shall engage with a wideselection of texts, both the well-known and otherwise, and consider how they might function in preaching and the pastoral setting. Chosen passages will include narratives, prophecies, and Psalms, and these will be read in dialogue with commentators, theorists, and theologians.
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3.00 Credits
Gay L. Byron/Robert R. Hann Congregations desire to hear how the message of Jesus Christ and the writers of the New Testament have a word for their lives and their struggles. How does the New Testament speak to their experience? Prophetic preaching has the dual focus of exposing and addressing the powers that make up the systems of domination and of equipping God's people to respond to those powers with strategies for resistance, faithfulness, and hope. This course will assist students in developing a biblical theology of prophetic preaching and in identifying relevant texts for proclamation. Biblical themes for proclamation will be discussed and exegesis will be performed on specific New Testament passages.
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