Navigating Theologically Through Challenging Situations

This course examines the promise and perils of thinking theologically in challenging and unexpected situations. This intensive-learning experience offers an opportunity to reflect deeply on specific situations and scenarios, in contexts that range from the church, pastoral dilemmas, and in the public square. Attention will be given to different approaches to theological reflection, as well as to common challenges and misunderstandings about what it means to navigate theologically through specific situations and experiences. The class will explore together, in concrete ways, questions asked by Rowan Williams, “how, if at all, God is real for us, and how God belongs to the world we belong to?”