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New Online Courses through St Joseph of Arimathea!

Our Province's seminary, St Joseph of Arimathea, will offer online lecture courses on weekday evenings for interested clergy and laity this fall.  As the seminary's provost, the Most Rev'd Robert Sherwood Morse, has often said, "our biggest enemy is ignorance."  Any of these four courses promises to increase the depth of your knowledge in an important aspect of our faith and practice.  For a modest fee of $50 per course, you can participate in this exciting new program offered by APCK clergy who are knowledgeable and seasoned instructors.  Each course meets once a week for two hours, and may be either audited or taken for academic credit toward a degree at St Joseph of Arimathea.

Dogmatic Theology:  Christian Anthropology

The Rev'd Dr. Paul Russell, Parish of Christ the King, Washington, D.C.
Mondays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

This lecture course will involve reading five different short books, written by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox authors. These works treat Christian understandings of human nature and how human beings interact with God. This topic is of central importance for all considerations of sin, virtue, religious life and the enterprise of being a Christian in the created world. Students taking the course for credit will be given one paragraph essay topics each week to help them focus on central content.  Begins Sept. 5 and ends Dec. 12, 2011

Church History, from the Apostles to 1300

The Rev'd Jeffrey Smith, St Luke's Anglican Church, Redding, California
Tuesdays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

This course will cover the first half of the Church's story, giving special emphasis to the following: 

(1) the spread of the Gospel from the mother church in Jerusalem to the rest of the Roman Empire and beyond,    (2) the development of the Church's institutional authority following the Apostles' deaths, (3) the transition from being an underground, persecuted society to becoming the official religion of the Empire, (4) the origin, development, and impact of Christian monasticism, and (5) the relationship between the papacy and the new political order that emerged in western Europe following the withdrawal of the Empire.  The course will go lightly on the development of doctrine, as that will be covered in Patristics.  Begins Sept. 6 and ends Dec. 13, 2011

The Theology of the New Testament:  The Synoptic Gospels

The Rev'd Dr. Paul Russell, Parish of Christ the King, Washington, D.C.
Wednesdays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

After six weeks of historical background study in preparation for engaging with the New Testament, this course treats the synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Each of these Gospels will be read all the way through three times in the course of considerations of their structure, content and theology. This is a workshop course designed to teach students how modern scholars studied the New Testament and how we, as Christians, can best study the Gospels, too. Students will be given one paragraph essay topics each week to help them focus on central content.  Begins Sept. 7 and ends Dec. 14, 2011

Anglican Thought and Spirituality

The Rev'd Dr. David Rodier, Christ's Anglican Church, Carefree, Arizona
Thursdays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

This course will focus on persons and movements in four periods which were central to the development of Anglicanism:  (1) the Age of Bede -- the conversion of England to Christianity, and some of the major saints who shaped the beginnings of Anglican tradition; (2) the Flowering of English Mysticism -- 14th-century writers who practiced the religious life in an age of political and social turmoil (including Julian of Norwich, Richard Rolle, and Walter Hilton), whose teachings are still a major force in Anglican spirituality today; (3) the English Reformation (It didn't begin with Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I didn't settle anything!) -- the scholars and their program of moderate reform which, in the midst of violent controversy, avoided both the destructiveness of radical Protestantism and  the radical innovations of a revitalized Roman Church; and (4) the Course of Anglicanism after the Reformation -- the High Church writers of the 17th century, the Evangelical Movement of the 18th century, the Tractarians and Broad Churchmen of the 19th century, and the English missionaries and martyrs who spread Anglicanism to the ends of the earth.  Begins Sept. 8 and ends Dec. 15, 2011

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More Online Courses through St Joseph of Arimathea!

         Our Province's seminary, St Joseph of Arimathea, will again offer online lecture courses on weekday evenings for interested clergy and laity.  The four courses offered last fall had over fifty students, and this semester's program, with most of the technical problems having been solved, promises to be even better.  There will be two seminary-level courses offered by Fr. Russell and another non-credit, audit-only class by Fr. Dart.  If you can not make the time commitment for a seminary-level class, Fr. Dart's class, broadcast on Tuesday evening, would be an excellent way to go.  For a modest fee of $50 per course, you can audit any of these courses offered by seasoned APCK clergy to enrich your knowledge of the Faith.  Those taking Fr. Russell's classes for credit will have a fee of $300 per course.  Each class may be viewed at the time of broadcast or later in recorded form.

 Dogmatic Theology:  Classic Summaries of Doctrine      

             The Rev'd Dr. Paul Russell, Parish of Christ the King, Washington, D.C.           Mondays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

 This lecture course will guide the student through a number of short presentations of Christian thought from different periods of history:  the first, by St Irenaeus of Lyon, is from the second century; the second, by St John of Damascus, is the classic Eastern Orthodox summary of doctrine from the ninth century; the third, by the great Franciscan theologian St Bonaventure, is from the 13th century; and the last, by J.S. Whale, is from the 20th century and addresses modern criticisms in explaining the Faith.  Begins January 16 and ends April 30, 2011

Looking at the Old Testament through the Prism of the New Testament

The Rev'd Stephen Dart, Christ's Anglican Church, Carefree, Arizona              Tuesdays, 6 pm (Pacific Time)

This series of lectures will focus on twelve aspects of the Old Testament, viewing them as part of the historical record of God’s plan of salvation perfectly fulfilled in the Person of Jesus Christ. The course will consider how these various aspects are interwoven into the life of the Church in the liturgical cycle. For example, where do we find the antecedents in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ, Who is our Creator, Judge, Shepherd, Prophet, Priest, King, and Bridegroom? And how do we understand and acknowledge this in our Anglican way of worship? This particular class is an extension of the ministry of Christ Anglican Church, Carefree, Arizona and is not for credit.  Each session runs for about 45 minutes.  Begins January 17 and ends April 3, 2012

The Theology of the New Testament:  from the Gospel of John to Revelation

The Rev'd Dr. Paul Russell, Parish of Christ the King, Washington, D.C.       Wednesdays, 6-8 pm (Pacific Time)

This course will guide the student through a careful reading of the second half of the New Testament.  The lectures will help him or her to see the distinctive theologies of St John, St Luke, St Paul, and other authors of Epistles, and address critical questions concerning them.  It will end with a study of Revelation that will help the student understand the genre of Biblical apocalyptic while avoiding much of the nonsense on the subject.  Begins January 18 and ends May 2, 2012.

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