Course Catalogue 2026-2027

The world is becoming increasingly intercultural, not only in the west but also in the east. How has the church prepared for intercultural church? How can we become an intercultural church? What leadership does it require to be an intercultural church? This course will deal with cultural competency, sociocultural structures, ethnicity and churches, leadership and culture, leadership and power, intercultural communication, and contextualizing leadership. At the end of the course, we will develop a vision and strategy for intercultural church.

The world is becoming increasingly intercultural, not only in the west but also in the east. How has the church prepared for intercultural church? This course will deal with cultural competency, sociocultural structures, ethnicity and churches, leadership and culture, leadership and power, intercultural communication, and contextualizing leadership. At the end of the course, we will develop a vision and strategy for intercultural church.
 

This course will focus on two of Ricoeur's essay collections, From Text to Action and Figuring the Sacred. Students will explore the general shape of Ricoeur's hermeneutical phenomenology, including such themes as textual interpretation, action, explanation, understanding, ideology, and utopia.

This course will focus on two of Ricoeur's essay collections, From Text to Action and Figuring the Sacred. Students will explore the general shape of Ricoeur?s hermeneutical phenomenology, including such themes as textual interpretation, action, explanation, understanding, ideology, and utopia.

This course will focus on two of Ricoeur's essay collections, From Text to Action and Figuring the Sacred. Students will explore the general shape of Ricoeur's hermeneutical phenomenology, including such themes as textual interpretation, action, explanation, understanding, ideology, and utopia.

This course will focus on two of Ricoeur?s essay collections, From Text to Action and Figuring the Sacred. Students will explore the general shape of Ricoeur?s hermeneutical phenomenology, including such themes as textual interpretation, action, explanation, understanding, ideology, and utopia.

This course will focus on two of Ricoeur's essay collections, From Text to Action and Figuring the Sacred. Students will explore the general shape of Ricoeur's hermeneutical phenomenology, including such themes as textual interpretation, action, explanation, understanding, ideology, and utopia.

The notion of a "social imaginary" -the way people come to understand their social surroundings by way of images, stories, and legends-has come to play a key role in Charles Taylor's thought. This is especially true of his most recent book, A Secular Age, in which Taylor attempts to trace the historical development of Western secularism as we experience it today. This seminar will be devoted to an in-depth study of this intellectual tour de force. Through this study, seminar participants will also consider what role Taylor's Roman Catholic religious commitment plays in his thought, as well as the role a religiously-informed "social imaginary" might play in a luralized global society that is deeply impacted by, but also largely at odds with, the particular social imaginary of Western modernity.

A study of Kearney's trilogy Philosophy at the Limit as well as his recent Anatheism, focusing on his exploration of that "frontier zone where narratives flourish and abound." Participants will examine Kearney's attempt to sketch a narrative eschatology that draws on the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Ricoeur.

A study of Kearney's trilogy Philosophy at the Limit as well as his recent Anatheism, focusing on his exploration of that "frontier zone where narratives flourish and abound." Participants will examine Kearney's attempt to sketch a narrative eschatology that draws on the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Ricoeur.

This seminar will examine the role intersubjectivity plays in Hannah Arendt.

This seminar will examine the role intersubjectivity plays in Hannah Arendt.