| July 27 2009
Trinity Begins 180th Year
Trinity's 180th academic year begins September 8, 2009, with a full schedule of day and evening classes, including Lutheran Spirituality. Clergy interested in learning more about key figures and developments in the history of Lutheran spirituality are encouraged to register for this class, which meets from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. each Monday, September 8 through December 18.
The Rev. Dr. Lisa Dahill, assistant professor of worship and Christian spirituality, will lead students through an exploration of Luther's own spirituality as glimpsed in treatises, hymns, sermons, and letters, and offer glances of later European Lutheran spirituality. Participants also will examine 20th century Lutheranism, centering in the spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (through his books Discipleship and Life Together, and letters from the last five years of his life), and expanding into U.S. and global Lutheran voices.
Two other courses on the schedule this fall will draw on contemporary themes and issues revealed in ancient faith traditions and texts.
Abrahamic Faiths will meet during the first seven weeks of Fall Term, September 8 – October 23, from 1:30 to 3:15 p.m. the Rev. Dr. Paul Numrich, associate professor of World Religions and Interreligious Relations, will examine the commonalities, differences, and complex interrelationships of the three major world religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – that trace their lineages in significant ways back to Abraham. Class discussion will highlight historical, doctrinal, scriptural, institutional, and socio-political issues.
During the second half of Fall Term, the Rev. Dr. Walter F. Taylor Jr., Ernest W. and Edith S. Ogram Professor of New Testament Studies, will teach Themes in Revelation, a new course that uncovers overarching themes and patterns in the book of Revelation. Dr. Taylor also will offer a basic approach for teaching and preaching from this book. Students must have completed a Bible course.