Code: HIS640 Dates: January 18, 2021 – April 9, 2021 on Tuesdays Time: 6:00 pm for 3 Hours This course will familiarize students with the work of major personalities and movements of the Protestant Reformation as these arise and flourish in the social and historical context of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe. While students will …
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A Secular Age
Code: TH6/781 Dates: January 18, 2021 – April 9, 2021 on Tuesdays Time: 9:00 am for 3 Hours This seminar takes the form of reading and discussing Charles Taylor’s Templeton Prize Winning book, A Secular Age, as well as significant reviews/review essays and responses to it. The book chronicles the rise of Western secularity, signal …
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Intensive: Indigenous Spirituality & The Christian Faith
Code: SP5/713 Dates: January 4, 2021 – January 15, 2021 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays Time: 9:00 am for 3 hours Indigenous people take seriously their Indigenous and Christian heritage but room has not always been made for the former by the latter. This course will investigate the historical relationship between the two …
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The Spirituality of the Book of Kells
Our most frequent expression of faith employs words. In contrast, in the Middle Ages, most people’s knowledge of Scripture was oral and visual rather than written. In Celtic Christianity the creative arts stood at the centre of church activity, not at its margins. Art was an act of worship. Gospel books such as the Book …
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Regent College Full Course Catalogue
Al of their courses should be visible in this online catalogue, from all of their different educational streams. (The URL for this is for the Winter Program; for a general listing, go to https://www.regent-college.edu/course-listing/course-timetables?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winter%20Course%20Promo%202021%20Bible&utm_content=Winter%20Course%20Promo%202021%20Bible+CID_6d5d05319d538c12678f4343408ac8ed&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=BROWSE%20ALL%20COURSES)
Church History: Wisdom of Mission Today
This course will explore the history of Christianity by focusing on snapshots of it in different times and places, by attending to its diversity over time, by encountering contrasting historical figures in its history, by asking what “salvation” meant and what “mission” consisted of in each of these times and places, and by pondering how …
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Celtic Spirituality and English Mysticism
This course will cover the history of Christian Spirituality in the British Isles prior to the Protestant Reformation, including Celtic Spirituality, Romano-British Christianity, Anglo-Saxon spirituality, and medieval English mysticism. Students will practice and reflect upon the spiritual disciplines described and prescribed in primary texts (The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection, Julian of …
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Seeing and Believing: The Visual Arts in Christian Life and Ministry
“When Christians lost the power of art, they impoverished the church, they impoverished worship, and they lost one of the most powerful means of calling souls to God.” -Dana Gioia While the visual arts have served as a powerful resource for the church in past centuries, today they are often overlooked. In this course we …
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Sacred Art: God at the Gallery
Throughout the ages, Christian art served the twofold objective of paying homage to God whilst serving as a didactic illustration for the population. These illuminating sessions will introduce participants to how different artistic traditions from countries such as Spain, Italy and Flanders have depicted the most significant events in the Bible. Formidable traditions governed the …
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The Holy Spirit–Online
Instructor: David Deane Dates: January 13th – April 12th, 2021 Fee: $250.00 (Continuing Education participants) Format: TBD This course will offer an engagement with the Christian Theology of the Holy Spirit drawing on (i) biblical, (ii) traditional, and (iii) contemporary, perspectives. Our goal is to acquire habits and methods that can inform our thinking, preaching, …
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