Continuing Education

• January Term: Beginning January 11, 2010 Ending January 29, 2010
• Spring Term: Beginning February 1, 2010 Ending May 12, 2010
• Summer Term: Beginning June x, 2010 Ending July x, 2010
• Fall Term: Beginning September x, 2010 Ending December x, 2010

Congregational Development
This course provides a basis for work in congregational development.  Topics include analysis of congregational type and life-cycle, understanding a congregation’s ethos and context, developing leadership styles for effective ministry, and discovering possibilities for redevelopment.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
June 15-19, 2009
Faculty:  Ellen K. Wondra, Anne Reed  & others
Limit:  25

Leadership in Multicultural Communities
How are faith communities organized and led differently when they cease to be monocultural?  How do choir, vestry and outreach look from a multicultural perspective?  Profound theoretical perspectives will alternate with experiential learning to engage participants at the deepest level and invite them to find grace in sharing their own racial and cultural experiences.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
June 8-12, 2009
Faculty:  Eric Law
Limit:  25

Leadership Skills for Community Organizing
To assist participants to develop their power and leadership skills and to develop any congregation or voluntary organization through engaging in the fundamentals of community organizing.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
June 15-19, 2009
Instructor is a member of the national staff of the Industrial Areas Foundation
Limit: 15

Missional Liturgy
Liturgy is an integral to participation in God’s mission and so as an essential aspect of congregational development.  Students will explore theological foundations for understanding and enacting worship as mission and will consider how to lead their communities in shaping missional liturgy.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
June 22-24, 2009
Faculty:  Ruth Meyers, Derek Harbin
Limit:  25

Praying Shapes Believing: Spiritual Practices in Christian Lives
This class offers an orientation to a variety of spiritual practices, with attention to principles that guide their use for personal formation and cultivation of communities. While drawing on resources from a wide range of Christian spiritual traditions, course materials focus on historical roots of Anglican identity along with contemporary developments in the US and worldwide. Participation involves experiential learning. 3 credit or CEU hrs. 3-weekend intensive in fall term.
Dates TBA
Faculty: Paula S. D. Barker

Implications of the Great Emergence for Congregations
As people of faith living in a time of tremendous upheaval and change, we are challenged to make sense of the shifts around us and respond to God’s call in new and emerging contexts. Seabury offers a unique learning opportunity to work with Dr. Phyllis Tickle (The Great Emergence)and leaders of communities of faith from around the country to explore in-depth how to facilitate changes in congregations.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
Sept. 21-25, 2009
Faculty:  Ellen K. Wondra and others

The Anglican Ethos
Anglicanism is a style of being Christian which begins in prayer and is then lived out in reflection and action. This course explores the ways in which four historical periods have shaped the way Anglicans do liturgy, theology, and ministry. Because of its centrality for liturgical and doctrinal theology, the Early Church has always been a primary source of Anglican identity. The unique nature of the 16th century Reformation in England has given Anglicanism its particular way of praying and doing church governance. The ecclesiastical controversies of the 19th century between low church Evangelicals and high church Tractarians similarly framed our ongoing dialogue about theology and mission. And the contemporary reality of the Anglican Communion continues to form the shape and context of 21st century mission, ministry, liturgy, and theological reflection.

As a core component of Seabury’s Anglican Studies program, “The Anglican Ethos” complements other seminary courses and assumes some introductory knowledge of scripture, theology, and history.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
3-Weekend Intensive in fall term; dates TBA
Faculty:  Gary R. Hall

Episcopal Church History and Polity
This course concentrates on the ways in which the transplanted Church of England in North America was transformed by the American Revolution, the establishment of the United States, and the general context of American religious experience, particularly in the colonial and Federal periods.

As a core component of Seabury’s Anglican Studies program, “Episcopal Church History and Polity” complements other seminary courses and assumes some knowledge of church history.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
January 11-22, 2010
Faculty:  Bill Doubleday and others

Economics, Sustainability, and Christian Life
With economic and environmental challenges all around us, what role do Christian faith and theology play in defining a new economy that supports environmentally sustainable practices? How can markets and economic policies be shaped in ways that serve all humanity and all creation, and that build community?  This course is built around two important national conferences on these subjects.  Seabury participants will take part in the conferences via downlink and engage in onsite discussion and worship.

This course is available for academic degree credit at the DMin and MDiv/MA levels, and for non-degree certificate credit, continuing education units, and personal enrichment.  Advance registration is required.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
January 25-29, 2010 
Faculty:  Ellen K. Wondra and others

Anglican Liturgy and Music
This course is an introduction to the principles and practices of Anglican worship with particular focus on the Episcopal Church.  The course will cover the nature of worship and the history of its evolution; contemporary liturgical and sacramental theology and practice; and the theology and use of music in worship.

As a core component of Seabury’s Anglican Studies program, “Anglican Liturgy and Music” complements other seminary courses and assumes some introductory knowledge of scripture, theology, and liturgy.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
January 11-22, 2010
Faculty:  John Kevern, Milner Seifert, and others

Ministry Development
In the context of this course, Ministry Development assumes that all members of the Body of Christ are called to ministry at Baptism. How then do all the members of the Body have access to lifelong opportunities for education and formation that affirm their various gifts for ministry, and what does that mean for the larger context of mission and ministry? 3 credit or CEU hrs.
3-Weekend Intensive in spring 2010; dates TBA
Faculty: Susanne Watson Epting, Director of the North American Association for the Diaconate (NAAD).

Anglican Theology and Ethics
Anglican theology and ethics are particular developments of Christian theology, with particular emphases of method and content. To uncover these particularities, the course will focus on a specific themes or areas (e.g., authority, the use of Scripture, the conscience, the Incarnation) where Anglicanism is distinguishable from other Christian traditions.  A primary focus of the course will be the breadth and variety of theologies and ethics in the worldwide Anglican Communion.  “Classic” Anglican theologians and moral theologians will be studied to see how their thought continues to influence contemporary Anglican thought and practice.

As a core component of Seabury’s Anglican Studies program, “Anglican Theology and Ethics” complements other seminary courses and assumes some introductory knowledge of scripture, theology, and ethics.  3 credit or CEU hrs. 
3 Weekend Intensive; dates TBA
Faculty:  Ellen K. Wondra

To sign up for this courses, call Peggy Pearson, Registrar, at 847-328-9300 x. 44.