September 2014 A.D. Remembering Knox Seminary, D.Min. Program in English Reformation and (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Gerald Bray
New at Knox Seminary = Doctor of Ministry–Theology and
Worship of the English Reformation Track
New at Knox Theological Seminary.
http://www.knoxseminary.edu/programs/programs-of-study/doctor-of-ministry/doctor-of-ministry-theology-and-worship-of-the-english-reformation-track/
Doctor of Ministry–Theology and Worship of the English Reformation Track
*NEW
FALL 2014*
The Theology and
Worship of the English Reformation Track is designed to equip those in ministry
to understand the doctrinal and liturgical reforms of the 16th and 17th
centuries.
The received
traditions of Catholic faith and practice were rethought in 16th century
Britain along the “evangelical” lines of the Reformation, resulting in a
consistent though broad Protestantism lived and expressed through the Book of
Common Prayer. The early English evangelicals did find a middle-way of sorts,
but not as is often imagined a via media between the Reformation and Rome.
Rather, the English Reformation listened to and learned from both the Lutheran
and Reformed traditions and attempted to express and embody a Protestantism
that could include both (or at least not exclude either).
This track
encourages an understanding of the mutuality of theology and worship and
considers the complexity of contextualization, as well as the process of
learning from the past for the sake of the present.
Learning Outcomes
A graduate
of the Theology and Worship of the English Reformation Track will be capable
of:
• Understanding
the complex social, political, and theological conditions that lead to and
shaped the English Reformation
• Understanding
the social, political, and theological consequences of the English Reformation
• Seeing
the interconnectedness of doctrinal and liturgical reform
• Learning
from and thinking with the worship and theology of the English Reformation for
contemporary ministry
Required Courses
Anglican
Studies
• The
English Reformation: 1519-1688
• The
Theology of Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer (1549 &1552)
The
Theology of the English Reformers (choose one)
• Theology
of Thomas Cranmer
• The
Theology of the Elizabethan Divines
• The
Theology of the Protestant Reformers in England
• The
Shape and Theology of the Thirty-Nine Articles
Understanding
the Present: Turning Points from a Protestant Perspective (choose one)
• Turning
Points: Laudianism, Tractarianism, and the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
• Comparing
the Prayer Books: From 1549-1979
• The
Americanization of the English Reformation: The Great Awakening, the
Revolution, and the Rest
4
elective courses
Taught by Leading Scholars in the field of Anglican Studies and the English Reformation:
• Rev. Dr. Ashley Null (the
world’s leading Cranmer scholar)
• Dr.
Gerald Bray (editor of Documents of the English Reformation)
• Dr.
Jonathan Linebaugh
• Rev.
Dr. Justin Holcomb
Final Project
The final
project will be an historical and theological study that looks back to the
English Reformation as it looks forward to the contexts and conditions of
contemporary ministry. The student will engage with an aspect of the
liturgical, social, political, and theological transformations that occurred during
and/or after the English Reformation. This research will facilitate an
understanding of the complexities of contextualization, the deep mutuality of
doctrinal and liturgical reform, and the process of listening to and learning
from the past for the sake of the present. The project concludes with a
consideration of the ways in which the materials studied can serve contemporary
ministry.
The first
course in this track is being offered in January 2015. To view all courses
being offered, please see the DMin course schedule.
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