Renewal Areas
Faith, Health, and Spirituality
The goals of this renewal area are:
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To equip leaders in congregations for church-based healing ministries that transform lives, congregations and communities toward greater wholeness and more faithful discipleship in the world.
- To analyze social structures that contribute to disease or to health and wholeness.
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Faith, Health and Spirituality Program
Global Christianity, Cross-cultural and Interfaith Ministries
This renewal area prepares leaders to energize Christian congregational life through:
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Participation in the renewal and multicultural reality of the church
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Awareness of the richness of cultural diversity, in the context of a religiously plural world
- Effective ministry in cross-cultural and interfaith contexts
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Courses
Costas Hispanic and Latin-American Ministries Program
Theology, Ministry, and Public Life
The goal of this area is to connect theological, biblical, ethical and ministerial study to the challenge of establishing and renewing the public life of the church and civil society. The main goals of the area are:
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To cultivate ministerial skills, virtues, and perspectives suitable for engaging these public spheres
- To promote theological, biblical, ethical, and ministerial understandings that may
foster greater justice, inclusiveness, social solidarity, and ecological responsibility
in public life
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Worship, Theology and the Arts
The goal of this area is to revitalize Christian life and worship in and through the arts. It seeks to:
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Integrate the arts (verbal, kinesthetic, and visual) into theological reflection
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Extend the modes of "doing theology" to include the non-propositional or non-dogmatic artistic forms (e.g., symbol, metaphor, narrative, and image)
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Strengthen students' skills for ministry in the areas of worship, planning, preaching, religious education, spiritual formation, and communication or expression of faith
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Program in Worship, Theology and the Arts
Updated March 2, 2004