A 2019 course by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan at Seminary of the Southwest “engages multiple texts, scripture, literature, film, music, socio-political movements, and art to explore the violent system that grounds theological, psycho-socio-economic, and political oppression: white supremacist patriarchal misogyny, and the resulting intergenerational trauma, from a Womanist theological ethics perspective.”
A 2019 course by Seth J. Nelson at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School “explores the equipping of educational and other church leaders through teaching and learning, curriculum development, discipleship, and team building as well as generational and intergenerational ministries with children, youth, emerging adults, adults, and aging adults.”
A 2019 course by Jacob J. Erickson at Trinity College Dublin explores “contemporary theological and ethical perspectives on eating and drinking: from food systems to vegetarianism to scarcity and more. How might contemporary ethics shape and be shaped by what we eat or drink, how we eat or drink?”
A 2019 course by Christy Lang Hearlson at Villanova University adopts a practical theology approach (“a way of doing theology that attends to lived reality and practice, engages in interdisciplinary dialogue, and seeks to cultivate practical wisdom for life”) to critical issues of contemporary life using the case study of “consumerism.” The course has “a particular (but not exclusive) focus on Roman Catholicism.”
A 2018 course by Anthony Baker at the Seminary of the Southwest explores “the key doctrines of Christianity, from Trinity to salvation to eschatology, making use of a broad range of texts and ideas from across the historical and geographical range of the Anglican and ecumenical theological tradition.”
A 2019 course by Eleazer Fernandez at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities “introduces . . . students to the nature and task of constructive theology, theological method, and the classical as well as contemporary interpretations on major doctrines.”
A 2019 course by Eleazer Fernandez at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities “introduces . . . students to the nature and task of constructive theology, theological method, and the classical as well as contemporary interpretations on major doctrines.”
A 2018 course by Tina Pippin at Agnes Scott College examines “the quests for the historical Jesus, with an analysis of literary and cultural sources (especially from film, music, art), and also the ethical implications of Jesus’ life and message, from the first century to contemporary times.”
A 2014 course by Ron Anderson at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary asks “What is a sacrament?
What does a sacrament do? For whom? How do sacramental theologies interact with or reflect
other theological concerns, e.g., creation, Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology?”
A 2014 course by Barry Bryant at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary examines “the key issues and basic theological questions relating to the Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Last Things. Among the topics explored are the filioque, baptism, eucharist, ministry and eschatology as a doctrine of hope.â
A 2002 course by Wesley Wildman at Boston University acquaints students “with the most significant western theological movements, figures and problems of the modern period. Attention is paid to non-western theological reflection, especially in the twentieth century, but the main emphasis is on western theology.”