Course Catalogue 2024-2025

There are four categories for course delivery:

In-Person if the course requires attendance at a specific location and time for some or all course activities. These courses will have section codes starting in 0 or 4.

Online – Asynchronous if the course has no requirement for attendance at a specific time or location for any activities or exams. These courses will have the section code starting with 61.

Online – Synchronous if online attendance is expected at a specific time for some or all course activities, and attendance at a specific location is not expected for any activities or exams. These courses will have the section code starting with 62.

Hybrid if the course requires attendance at a specific location and time, however 33-66% of the course is delivered online. If online attendance is expected at a specific time, it will be in place of the in person attendance. These courses will have the section code starting with 31.

Some courses may offer more than one delivery method please ensure that you have the correct section code when registering via ACORN. You will not be permitted to switch delivery method after the last date to add a course for the given semester.

Please Note:
  • If you are unable to register, through ACORN, for a course listed on this site, please contact the registrar of the college who owns the course. This can be identified by the first two letters of the course code.

 

  • Congregational Administration Nuts and Bolts

    TRP2721HS

    This course will explore an essential role of clergy in offering oversight and service to key aspects of the unfolding of congregational life. What is the relationship between this practical work of the laity, theology, and congregational health? How can clergy offer intelligent oversight and service to lay leadership without interfering and micromanaging? In dialogue and discussion with expert practitioners we will focus on basic skills and awareness necessary to effective leadership in the areas of congregational administration, including: finances and budgeting, property and buildings, stewardship, volunteer management and personnel
    supervision and feedback, organizing the weekly Sunday liturgy. Though the course will draw on Anglican polity and examples, the issues addressed by the course are faced in various forms by congregational leaders across denominations.

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  • Ministry of Governance and Administration

    EMP2731HS

    • Instructor(s):
    • College: Emmanuel College
    • Credits: One Credit
    • Session: Winter 2025 Schedule: Mon Time: 14:00

    The responsibility of good administration and informed governance is a vital, if unsung, aspect of ministry in a conciliar system. This course will explore the mandates of collaborative congregational leadership, financial stewardship, effective communication and mission strategy in the context of current and emerging forms of United Church polity, and in view of the impact of changing demographics.

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    A Journey Through History - The Jesuit Missions In Early Modern Canada

    SMH2801HS

    Bound to Canada's early modern history are the apostolic labours of the Jesuit missionaries who ministered to both a vast number of First Nations peoples and a fledgling community or French settlers. Their efforts, chronicled in the Jesuit Relations, will come to life in this intensive five-day course taught, in situ, at the heart of the former Wendat (Huron) Nation (present day Martyrs' Shrine). From this location, students will begin an experiential journey, passing through the pages of the Relations, into world-class reconstructed historical sites, that together will create the space for examining how their religious world view shaped the missionaries' understanding of the 'New World', First Nations Cultures, and evangelisation during the earliest period in Canada's ecclesiastical history.

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  • Women in the New Testament

    WYB2802HF

    • Instructor(s):
    • College: Wycliffe College
    • Credits: One Credit
    • Session: Summer 2024 Schedule: MonTueWedThuFri Time: 9:00

    The New Testament is often read as offering a restricted vision for women’s leadership in the church. This course exposes some of the misunderstandings that have led to that conclusion and considers exegetical arguments in favour of a New Testament vision for the full inclusion of women at all levels of church leadership. Part One of the course looks closely at the New Testament's narrative portraits of women in the early church, beginning with the gospels' depictions of forerunners (Anna, Elizabeth) and disciples of Jesus (Joanna, Salome, and Mary Magdalene) before moving to the Acts of the Apostles and its account of Paul’s female coworkers (Lydia, Priscilla, and Phoebe). Part Two then turns to Paul’s letters themselves, looking at some of the named women of Romans 16 before turning to well-known ‘problem passages’ such as 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Timothy 2, and Ephesians 5, considering how a close study of these texts in their social, historical, and theological context, with the benefit of recent scholarship, can shed much-needed light on Paul’s understanding of women's roles in the churches.

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  • Pastoral Competency

    RGT2810HF

    • Instructor(s):
    • College: Regis College
    • Credits: One Credit
    • Session: Summer 2024 Schedule: MonTueWedThu Time: 12:30

    A review of the moral, pastoral and canonical principles of sound ministerial practice in the Roman Catholic tradition, along with an intensive practicum.

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  • Pastoral Competency

    RGT2810HF

    • Instructor(s):
    • College: Regis College
    • Credits: One Credit
    • Session: Summer 2025 Schedule: MonTueWedThuFri Time: 10:00

    A review of the moral, pastoral and canonical principles of sound ministerial practice in the Roman Catholic tradition, along with an intensive practicum.

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  • Theology and Spirituality of Icons

    TRP2841HF

    This course studies icons in the Eastern Christian tradition from the perspectives of history, theology, liturgy and spirituality. The course focuses notably the origins of Christian art, the development of features particular to icons, the iconoclastic controversy of the 7th-8th centuries, and the major schools and styles of icons in the Orthodox world, especially the Byzantine-Greek and Russian styles. The theology of the icon will be studied primarily through the iconoclastic conflict and modern theology of icons, with emphasis on primary texts from the iconoclasts and the Orthodox position, especially St. Theodore Studite, St. John of Damascus, and the pronouncements of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea, 787) and the Triumph of Orthodoxy (843). The course analyses the spirituality and interpretation of iconographic symbolism, with a focus on the main types of icons of Christ, the Mother of God, Holy Week, the twelve major liturgical feasts, and important saints. Primary sources include Biblical, patristic, liturgical, and hagiographic material.

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  • Theology and Spirituality of Icons

    TRP2841HF

    This course studies icons in the Eastern Christian tradition from the perspectives of history, theology, liturgy and spirituality. The course focuses notably the origins of Christian art, the development of features particular to icons, the iconoclastic controversy of the 7th-8th centuries, and the major schools and styles of icons in the Orthodox world, especially the Byzantine-Greek and Russian styles. The theology of the icon will be studied primarily through the iconoclastic conflict and modern theology of icons, with emphasis on primary texts from the iconoclasts and the Orthodox position, especially St. Theodore Studite, St. John of Damascus, and the pronouncements of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea, 787) and the Triumph of Orthodoxy (843). The course analyses the spirituality and interpretation of iconographic symbolism, with a focus on the main types of icons of Christ, the Mother of God, Holy Week, the twelve major liturgical feasts, and important saints. Primary sources include Biblical, patristic, liturgical, and hagiographic material.

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  • Songs of the Church

    EMP2861HF

    The course on congregational song has no prerequisites related to musical ability, keyboard skills, or to hymnic background. Attendance at lectures for the exploration of current song resources (Voices United, More Voices, and a hymn book of the student's choice) forms part of the evaluation process.

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  • Toronto School of Theology Choir

    EMP2875HY

    • Instructor(s):
    • College: Emmanuel College
    • Credits: One Credit
    • Session: Fall 2024 Schedule: Wed Time: 17:00

    The Toronto School of Theology Choir is an ecumenical choir based at Emmanuel College whose members sing at TST chapel services and other community events at the University of Toronto and in the broader community. Through the choir, members are introduced to a wide variety of church music repertoire from various Christian traditions from around the world. Members also advance their singing and ensemble skills in a group through weekly rehearsals where they learn about vocal production and ensemble singing. TST Choir is open to all members of the University of Toronto: students, faculty and staff.

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  • Christian Ethics in Context

    EMT2902HF

    This orientation to several dimensions of Christian ethics - language, sources, norms, methods and concerns - aims to foster ethical awareness for dealing with moral challenges in personal, social, and church/religious life. To practice Canadian ethical reflection, these dimensions are introduced with reference to several concrete social issues and the public vocation of Christian ethics.

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