Course Description
This course taps the resources of the Christian tradition (and beyond the Christian tradition) for motivating and sustaining social activism. It helps participants develop congregation-based strategies to local/global disparities and structural sin.
Course Goals
To create a theological framework for reflecting on social change and justice issues.
To cultivate an understanding of intersectionality that lends itself to correlating the spiritual, social, cultural and psychological dimensions of contemporary social issues.
To expose participants to faith-based responses to social issues.
Degree Goals addressed in this course
Develop critical skills for theological analysis of and creative engagement with current challenges and changes in the church and the world.
Enhance practices of ministry through focused skill development, empowering capable leadership in parish and related contexts.
Critically engage matters of faith, justice, and human difference in local and global contexts.
Outcomes
Participants will be able to identify the social and cultural dynamics at play in contemporary social concerns.
Participants will have been exposed to faith-based responses.
Participants will be able to identify resources in the Christian tradition that can be used to impact social issues.
This course taps the resources of the Christian tradition (and beyond the Christian tradition) for motivating and sustaining social activism. It helps participants develop congregation-based strategies to local/global disparities and structural sin.
Course Goals
To create a theological framework for reflecting on social change and justice issues.
To cultivate an understanding of intersectionality that lends itself to correlating the spiritual, social, cultural and psychological dimensions of contemporary social issues.
To expose participants to faith-based responses to social issues.
Degree Goals addressed in this course
Develop critical skills for theological analysis of and creative engagement with current challenges and changes in the church and the world.
Enhance practices of ministry through focused skill development, empowering capable leadership in parish and related contexts.
Critically engage matters of faith, justice, and human difference in local and global contexts.
Outcomes
Participants will be able to identify the social and cultural dynamics at play in contemporary social concerns.
Participants will have been exposed to faith-based responses.
Participants will be able to identify resources in the Christian tradition that can be used to impact social issues.
- Teacher: H. Dean Trulear