Courses at Seabury
Seabury Western offers a wide variety of courses designed to prepare men and women for service to the Church.
Download our 2012-2013 academic catalog.
Learn more about our Anglican Studies program here.
Summer 2011
Seabury Summer Institute with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Business savvy and theology dovetail this summer in an innovative one-week leadership program offered by Seabury in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
For students enrolled in the DMin Congregational Development program and for persons who have been accepted in the Seabury Summer Institute program, click here to register for this course.
Learn more about the Seabury Summer Institute here and apply here to submit via email.
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Congregations in the 21st Century
Congregations constitute the largest volunteer gathering of religious people in North America. Yet as institutions many Episcopal/Anglican and mainline Protestant congregations are in serious decline. This course will examine the religious congregation from a theological, historical, sociological, economic, and leadership perspective. Two major questions guide the inquiry: What is a religious congregation? Why have one?
Instructor: The Rev. Dr. Susan Harlow, Director of Congregational Development; the Rev. Jim Steen, the Rev. Dr. Ian Evison and the Rev. Gloria Hopewell
Dates: June 13-17, 2011 Weeklong Intensive 3 credit or CEU hrs. MDiv or DMIN
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Community Organizing
Community organizing is all about relationship building. The course will assist congregational leaders in getting to know the wider community context in which the local church is situated.
Intructor: Taught by staff of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
Dates: June 13-17, 2011 Weeklong Intensive 3 credit or CEU hrs. MDiv or DMIN
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Fall Term 2011
The Genesis and Genius of Anglicanism (The Anglican Ethos)
This course will look at the way Anglican Christianity emerged and developed over two millennia as a complex, evolving understanding of God, history, the natural world, and human life. Using images, music and texts, the course will acquaint participants with both the variety and continuity of Christian thought and expression across a wide variety of media. Historical re-enactments will allow participants to experience the lived history of the church in a vivid and holistic way. The course will demonstrate how the Anglican way of being Christian synthesizes this entire history and continues its evolution toward a generous approach to existence.
Instructor: John Dally, Professor of Theology and Culture
Dates: Offered in hybrid format, with online work beginning Sept. 6 and ending Dec. 14 together with on-site meetings: September 23-24 at Seabury's Evanston campus; October 28-29 at Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park and December 2-3 at Church of St. Paul & the Redeemer, Chicago (Hyde Park).
3 credit or CEU hrs. MDiv or DMIN. Click here to register for this course.
Contemporary Issues in the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church
This course offers participants an opportunity to explore contemporary issues through an Anglican tradition of thoughtful theological reflection, dialogue, and examination of courses of action that reflect baptismal living and are applicable to daily lives and decisions. Topics for exploration will include current mission priorities of the Episcopal Church, such as the Millennium Development Goals and ways to overcome poverty in the world as well as current topics of dialogue throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion, such as issues related to the theologies of Scripture and of human sexuality.
Instructor: Ellen Wondra, Professor of Theology and Ethics and Academic Dean
Dates: Online work September 6-December 14 and onsite classe December 9-10. 3 credit or CEU hours.
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