These special courses are available for current Seattle U, School of Theology and Ministry students that have earned12 credits or more, in addition to any required prerequistes. The classes are available for lay or ordained ministers as auditing listeners in the class. For more information, please contact Colette Casavant, Student Community and Admissions Coordinator, casavant@seattleu.edu.
More information on auditing classes here.
Summer Quarter 2012
STMM 593 Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
Wednesday-Friday | July 11-13, 2012 | Rev. Philipp G. Renczes, SJ *
*Visiting Professor from Rome!
This one-credit offering has just been added to our Summer 2012 schedule! Special guest lecturer Father Philipp Renczes, SJ, Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, will be visiting Seattle University this summer to teach for both STM and the undergraduate Theology and Religious Studies department. Fr. Renczes’ research includes: Theological Anthropology (Grace); Maximus the Confessor; Dialogue between Patristic and Systematic Theology, and Patristic Theology of Judaism. He has taught Theology of Grace: Biblical, Historical, Systematic; Augustine’s Theological Anthropology and its reception in 20th century theology; Theology of Maximus the Confessor; and Church and Synagogue in the Patristic Period.
Theology of Joseph Ratzinger is scheduled for three days: Wednesday (6pm-9pm), Thursday (6pm-9pm) and all day Friday (9am-4pm). Course description and more details to come! We hope you will take advantage and project this unique offering and opportunity!
STMA 556 Missional Leadership *
Monday-Friday | July 23-27, 2012 | Rev. Kyle J.A. Small, PhD
* Returning professor on a topic per popular demand!
This course looks at leadership as an ecclesial act, specifically with attention to call, congregation (ministry setting), and action. The expectation is that four agents will be primary in this course – The Triune God, The World, the Church, and you. The prior three take precedence to your life as a leader. We, as leaders, live in, with, for (and against) these agents and will perpetually find ourselves intertwined within and responsible to these agents. This responsibility and intertwining invites a life committed to nurture, reflection, and engagement with God on behalf of the church and world. This course fulfills the American Baptist and United Methodist requirements for mission or evangelization.
STMM 550 Conflict Management: Paving the Road to Peace in a Conflicted World
Monday-Friday | June 25-29, 2012 | Carol Guenther and John Reid
In this course we will explore the personal, interpersonal and professional challenges of dealing with conflict creatively as a means of peacemaking. Participants will identify their own experiences as well as the strengths and challenges they bring when dealing with difficult situations at home, in all relationships and in ministry. We will study the common sources of conflict with particular attention to communication styles, the impact of change, and individual approaches in responding to conflict. The interconnection between reconciliation and peacemaking is explored later in the week and builds upon the conflict management and leadership skills we will discuss in the first days. We will investigate principles and practices grounded in a holistic spirituality which are expressed in being a change agent, transformational leader and peacemaker. Come to contribute, learn and enjoy!
STMM 593 Artistic Expressions of Religious Experience
Monday-Friday | July 23-27, 2012 | Bobbi Dykema, PhD
Calling all student artists and lovers of the arts: singers, musicians, theater artists, dancers, writers, visual artists! Engage in a week-long intensive to refine theological thought and artistic praxis, understand the roles that the work of artists of faith can have in the church, community and larger society, and engage theological and artistic sources in creative dialogue. Class will include field trips, seminar discussion, performances and other opportunities to share reflections, work, and ideas.
Bobbi Dykema completed her PhD in Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in 2010, with a dissertation on early Lutheran propaganda, for which she was awarded several fellowships. She has published and presented on depictions of Mary Magdalene in art, the visual culture of the Reformation, and theological aesthetic questions of ontology and faith. Bobbi is highly ecumenical, she is currently a theologian in residence and supply preacher at Olympic View Community Church of the Brethren in north Seattle, and teaches several courses at the UW Experimental Col