Spring 2010
Early and Medieval Christianity (HT 101E)
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Registration Information - Registration will open around late November 2009; contact the WTS Registrar if you have questions and to initiate registration. Cost is $1,835 ($1,785 tuition, plus $50 online course technology fee), to be paid prior to the start of the course. |
Course Start Date: 2/1/10 Course Duration (or End Date): 5/14/10 Instructor(s): Dr. Elizabeth Leeper Course Description: 3 semester hours. This course surveys the history of Christianity from the second century up to the time of the Reformation. Using texts and readings that offer a global approach, we will begin by examining Christianity's foundations during the Roman Empire - a time of identity crisis as Christian communities sought to come to terms with different expressions of Christian belief, threats by pagan culture, and varying ideas as what it means to live a life of Christian commitment. As the Christian faith moved east to Syria, Persia, and along the Silk Road, and northwest to northern Europe, we too will follow those missions and movements and see how Christianity developed in new ways. The course will end with the growing calls for reform within European Christendom and the new challenges posed by the rise of Islam in Asia. |
Systematic Theology (HT 140E)
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Registration Information - Registration will open around late November 2009; contact the WTS Registrar if you have questions and to initiate registration. Cost is $1,835 ($1,785 tuition, plus $50 online course technology fee), to be paid prior to the start of the course. |
Course Start Date: 2/1/10 Course Duration (or End Date): 5/14/10 Instructor(s): Duane Priebe Course Description: 3 semester hours. This course will introduce the basic structures of Christian and Lutheran thought, as it explores the relationship between God, humanity and the world in a history of revelation that extends from creation and fall to the consummation of all things and is centered in Jesus Christ. The course will be organized around the Trinitarian framework of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. Throughout the course, the global context of the Christian witness to Jesus Christ and the engagement between the Christian message and other religious traditions will be kept in view. |
Lutheran Confessions (HT 213E)
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Registration Information - Registration will open around late November 2009; contact the WTS Registrar if you have questions and to initiate registration. Cost is $1,835 ($1,785 tuition, plus $50 online course technology fee), to be paid prior to the start of the course.
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Course Start Date: 2/1/10 Course Duration (or End Date): 5/14/10 Instructor(s): Ralph Quere Course Description: 3 semester hours. The Book of Concord is one of the treasure maps of the Lutheran Church. It tells where the Lutheran reformers stood regarding the gospel of Christ and how they reclaimed that treasure for the church they loved. This collection of confessions has become our church's basic explanation of the good news of justification by faith alone. These Lutheran confessions will be studied textually and topically. Beginning with a quick, first reading of the documents in chronological order will give the student a sense of the content of each and their development during the initial half-century of the Reformation. Starting with the ecumenical creeds gives input from the early church and shows the roots of the theology of Luther's catechisms. Next the Augsburg Confession (AC)-recognized by all of the Lutheran Churches worldwide-will be read, followed by the rest of the confessional writings, which are seen as "commentaries" on the "Augustana" (i.e. the AC). Then the more in-depth study of the major topics will be aided by text books, lecture notes, and on-line discussions. |