Syllabi Archive
A 2014 course by David Otto at Centenary College examines "Greco-Roman family life; early Christian moral teachings in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman popular morality; the early Christian family with a focus on slaves and children, marriage and divorce; gender constructions of masculinity and homosexual behavior and the position of women in the early church."
A 2000 course by Jeffrey Carlson at DePaul University takes up "classical and contemporary arguments regarding the existence and meaning of 'God.'"
A course by Judith Berling and Jeff Richey at the Graduate Theological Union.
A 2009 course by Stuart Tyson Smith at the University of California Santa Barbara.
A 2012 course by Julia Gillett at Phillips Theological Seminary "is an introduction to resources for and approaches to Christian education with children."
A 2017 course by Michael Kuykendall at Gateway Seminar "is an introduction to the primary literature, theology, and message of the apocalyptic genre, with specific emphasis placed on the book of Revelation."
A course by Gisela Webb at Seton Hall University inquires about how religious traditions understand women and how they should be in society.
A 2009 course by Laura Wexler and Sally Promey at Yale University "takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining issues of religion, gender, representation, and globalization."
A 2003 course by Michael Clark at Warren Wilson College examines "the effects of (hetero)patriarchy on the construction of masculine identity, menâs relationships with one another and with women, menâs sexuality and ethics, and other topics, while also exploring how masculine socialization and male experience both shape religious ideas, symbols, rituals, institutions, and spirituality, and are in turn shaped by them."
A course by Mary Suydam at Kenyon College "explores the significance of Christianity for women." It considers "founders of church-reform movements . . . new Christian churches . . . [and] contemporary Christian issues involving women, such as ordination, abortion, and marriage and divorce laws."