Life Together: Christian Formation

This is a pass/fail first term, required course for M.Div. students (and opens to all basic degree students). It presents an overview of living the Christian faith in community, with an emphasis on spiritual formation for leadership. It places this overview within the context of the church’s visible witness and an understanding of its mission as participation in Christ’s mission.  It hopes to help students think through the intersection of contemporary notions of spirituality and piety and the Christian life lived in the community of the church, with its disciplines and practices.  It also hopes to begin to prepare students for continued growth and formation in Christ, through the gifts the church offers, as they begin to be trained and formed as Christian leaders.