Course Catalogue 2025-2026

Care and Community explores the role of care expected of religious practitioners and faith communities in an intercultural context. The pastoral care capacity of a beginning religious practitioner (pastor, chaplain, minister of music, education or lay leader) requires self knowledge, spiritual formation, theory and skill. Narrative theories of care will provide the basis for the assumptions and skill development of the course. Role plays, class discussions and short practical theology papers will provide opportunity to assess a student's self ability to think theologically about pastoral care situations.

This course is designed to introduce students to the essential grammar and syntax of the 1st c. CE Koiné Biblical Greek language. Students will be granted the opportunity to acquire basic vocabulary, test their comprehension skills, learn to read and translate selected segments from the New Testament, as well as come to a foundational knowledge of the significance of studying Greek as a door to access the NT authors’ constructions, features, and message.

This course is designed to introduce students to the essential grammar and syntax of the 1st c. CE Koiné Biblical Greek language. Students will be granted the opportunity to acquire basic vocabulary, test their comprehension skills, learn to read and translate selected segments from the New Testament, as well as come to a foundational knowledge of the significance of studying Greek as a door to access the NT authors’ constructions, features, and message.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Hellenistic Greek grammar and vocabulary for the purpose of reading and translating the Greek New Testament. Students will move between reading and translating the GNT, learning and memorizing the grammar, and memorizing 390 of the most frequent vocabulary words, along with engaging in disciplines that will promote use of Greek following completion of the course.

Families come to Canada from every society of the world, bringing their diverse relationships, roles, structures and understandings. Clergy, teachers and parish workers need an awareness of what those might be in order to serve individuals and families from diverse cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds. Whether in pastoral work, in teaching family life education or in other forms of service, awareness of possibilities and questions will be useful. Two presentations and final exam.

Pastoral care is a vital ministry in the life of the Church, embodying Christ’s love and compassion for individuals and communities. This course provides an introduction to the fundamental principles, practices, and skills needed by those preparing for pastoral ministry. Students will explore the theological and historical foundations of pastoral care, offering insights into its development and significance within the Church’s mission. The course will highlight the unique nature of pastoral care, emphasizing how it differs from other forms of caregiving through its spiritual and theological grounding. Through readings, discussions, experiential learning, and practical exercises, students will gain foundational knowledge and essential skills to effectively provide pastoral care and support to future parishioners and communities.

Contexts are always shaped by numerous historical and social forces, which we come to embody in ways related to our particular social locations. In the first half of this course, we learn how to do spiritual/vocational reflection on the self-in-context. In the second half of the course, we nurture these capacities by using them in relation to one context in which we all share: colonial Canada in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Exploring how to be vocationally responsible in light of this context, we will develop analytic skills transferable to multiple other contexts too.

Explores various aspects of ministry, in particular the theology and practice of ordained ministry within the Reformed traditions. Topics include understandings of ministry, the call, functions and roles in ministry, challenges and contexts for ministry today and in the future, leadership and authority, and spiritual practices.

This course provides students, with no previous experience in the language, basic knowledge of Latin grammatical structure, including verb forms and tenses and the various types of nouns and adjectives. Familiarity with the vocabulary of Christian literature written in the Latin language accompanies the learning process. The lectures cover units 1-19 of Collin?s Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin.

This course provides students, with no previous experience in the language, basic knowledge of Latin grammatical structure, including verb forms and tenses and the various types of nouns and adjectives. Familiarity with the vocabulary of Christian literature written in the Latin language accompanies the learning process. The lectures cover units 1-19 of Collin?s Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin.

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin I or the equivalent. We plan to complete studying Collins? Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin (Units 20-35) while building on the material previously learned. We will practice reading Latin out loud and more importantly translate various Latin texts from the Vulgate to the Patristic and Medieval periods. The instructor will provide texts for exercises in translation.

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin I or the equivalent. We plan to complete studying Collins? Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin (Units 20-35) while building on the material previously learned. We will practice reading Latin out loud and more importantly translate various Latin texts from the Vulgate to the Patristic and Medieval periods. The instructor will provide texts for exercises in translation.