Bexley Hall | Course Offerings (Rochester)

1) Anglican Formation – APT 101 – Colacino
Formation is understood broadly to encompass both worship and study. Formation begins with the Eucharist at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a communal lunch, and the afternoon program of prayer and study. The afternoon ends with Evensong at 5:15 p.m. Students are required to take four semesters of Anglican Formation for credit and audit two semesters. Students taking Formation for credit or audit are expected to participate in a retreat experience offered each semester. Also, students taking Formation for credit or audit are expected to be present for Morning Prayer and Compline at least once (each) per week. Participation in Formation is encouraged throughout the student’s entire education in seminary. These are the expectations of the seminary, Bexley Board, and the bishops of the dioceses from which we receive students. (1 credit)

2) Field Education I (Pastoral Ministry) – APT 120 – Price
This course is required for all entering degree students. This course focuses on ministry and the use of self: establishing a Rule of Life, finding a spiritual director, family of origin issues that impact ministry effectiveness (addiction, codependency, shame, guilt, difficulty setting appropriate boundaries, etc.), personality type and religious leadership, and sexual misconduct prevention training. Certificates which will meet diocesan/national church requirements will be issued for the misconduct prevention training portion of the course for persons in ministry. This course meets every other week. (2 credits)

3) Field Education II (Pastoral Experience) – APT 220 – Price
This course is required for all students, usually in the Middler year. It involves 12 hours per week in a church or agency. Students meet weekly with their supervisor who gives general guidance and direction to their work and reflects with them on their performance of ministry in a given situation. Practice of Ministry is further enhanced by a lay committee of the church or agency. Practice of Ministry includes participation in case study presentations in the classroom and lectures on organizational/congregational development and the changing nature of faith communities and pastoral leadership in our time. APT 120 is a prerequisite. This course meets every other week. (4 credits)

4) Liturgics I: Prayer Book Practicum and Introduction to Liturgical Music – LitMus 100 - Fuller/Kennedy
This course is required for all students. It is an introduction to the liturgical books, musical resources, and basic skills of worship leadership in the Episcopal Church, using the worship life of Bexley Hall as a venue for learning and practice. This is a required course for all students. (4 credits)

5) Old Testament I – BHS 200 – Bartlett
This course serves as a basic introduction to the Old Testament. For MDiv students, it is intended that this be part of a two semester sequence that includes Old Testament II. (4 credits)

6) Women and Gender in Religion - Theo 565 - Yarbrough
We are now thirty years into the presence of women in the ordained ministry of our Episcopal Church. What difference has the presence of women in the ministry made in the past thirty years? How, if at all, has theological discourse on issues of sex and gender evolved over this period? This course will look at issues of sex and gender from a variety of perspectives. We will study the classical texts of feminist theology, including Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth Johnson, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carol Christ and others. We will study the Sophia Christology arising out of the Wisdom tradition of the Old Testament. We will examine some sociological theories on the impact of women in ministry. We will examine some sociological theories on the impact of women in ministry. We will look at issues concerning the place and role of women in other world religious traditions as they are lived out in our pluralistic culture. This course will combine theology with practical questions in ministry today around issues of sex and gender considering leadership issues peculiar to women, women in preaching and the like. This course may be taken as an elective or to fulfill a requirement in Women and Gender studies. (4 credits)

7) Systematic Theology - Theo 253 – Colacino
This is a required course for all students. This course examines the systematic articulation of the Christian faith – the past, present and challenges of the future – telling the story of Christian theology. (4 credits)

December Term 2007

Monday, December 10th through Friday, December 14th 2008
PC 150 – Pastoral Care and Counseling – Han van den Blink
Meeting all day, including evening discussion sessions, for one week, this intensive course will fulfill the academic requirement for an introductory course in pastoral care and counseling for students in the MDiv and MA programs. Students in the Rochester area will be able to commute, however, students coming from a distance will need to plan for a residential week. (4 credits) more information

January Term 2008

Monday, January 14th through Friday, January 18th 2008
Theology & Peacemaking -- Anthony Bartlett
This course will attempt to answer a series of related questions stemming from the human problem of violence. The pathway they lead us on will prove richly rewarding theologically, with particular
reference to the present social and historical context of Christian faith. (4 credits) more information

Winter Term – January 2008

Course Canceled
~~The Church of England: Traditional and Contemporary (London and Canterbury)~~
This is a reprise of the highly successful trip to London and Canterbury last undertaken in December 2005. We shall see the Church of England at work in its historic venues (e.g. Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral) as well as explore parish churches in a very secular city. We shall look at both ministry in the rich areas of London, and ministry in the traditionally poor East End. We shall also have a day trip to Canterbury, with mass in the 11th century crypt chapel of St. Gabriel, surrounded by surviving Romanesque frescoes – a powerful experience. One day will be free for the traditional tourist sites, and all evenings are free. This can be taken as a course for credit with a reading list and a paper. This trip will last about ten days and take place some time between January 7th and January 25th, 2008. There may be an optional add on trip to Paris for a few days.

Historical Spirituality: Dante’s Divine Comedy (in Context)
The week of January 7th, 2008 will be spent in Columbus where we will accomplish an introduction to Dante’s Commedia and the reading of the first cantica Inferno (translation and commentary by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds). We will embark for Firenze (Florence) on Saturday, January 12th, 2008. The next two weeks will be spent reading and discussing the Purgatorio and the Paradiso with daily excursions to pertinent sites (Il Duomo e Museo, Santa Maria Novella, Sante Croce, San Lorenzo, etc.) and side trips to Ravenna (Dante’s tomb, San Vitale, Sant’Apollinaire in Classe) and Roma (the Vatican, Sistine Chapel, Museums, San Clemente, other sites). We will fly back on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Due to the heavy reading load (text and commentary) and dail discussion periods, the written requirements of the course will consist in keeping a spiritual journal (which will be checked, but not read, by the instructor).

Spring Term 2008

Anglican Formation – APT 101 – Colacino
Formation is understood broadly to encompass both worship and study. Formation begins with the Eucharist at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a communal lunch, and the afternoon program of prayer and study. The afternoon ends with Evensong at 5:15 p.m. Students are required to take four semesters of Anglican Formation for credit and audit two semesters. Students taking Formation for credit or audit are expected to participate in a retreat experience offered each semester. Also, students taking Formation for credit or audit are expected to be present for Morning Prayer and Compline at least once (each) per week. Participation in Formation is encouraged throughout the student’s entire education in seminary. These are the expectations of the seminary, Bexley Board, and the bishops of the dioceses from which we receive students. (1 credit)

Field Education II (Pastoral Experience) – APT 220 – Price
This course is the second semester of Field Placement required for all students. It involves 12 hours per week in a church or agency. Students meet weekly with their supervisor who gives general guidance and direction to their work and reflects with them on their performance of ministry in a given situation. Practice of Ministry is further enhanced by a lay committee of the church or agency. Practice of Ministry includes participation in case study presentations in the classroom and lectures on organizational/congregational development and the changing nature of faith communities and pastoral leadership in our time. APT 120 is a prerequisite. This course meets every other week. (4 credits)

Anglican Church History – Hist 218 – Selzer
The history of English-speaking Christianity is approached as an ecclesial study of more or less resolved fusions and fissions between representatives of various ethnicities and religious perspectives as they encounter representatives of the Gospel and each other as Christians. This course focuses on an analysis of reformation of eccelsia Anglicana and it subsequent divisions. While facing challenges presented by the rise of historical consciousness, with its concomitant pluralism and nascent secularism, subsequent English Christian culture impinges during the 19th and 20th centuries on a larger world. This is a required course. (4 credits)

Liturgical Preaching – PR 300 – Colacino
This course introduces students to the theology and methods of preaching in a liturgical context. Issues addressed include the character of liturgical language, the new homiletic, the influence of personality type on preaching style, use of the Lectionary, developing a homiletic spirituality and attending to listeners as a vital aspect of homily preparation and delivery. In addition to theoretical aspects of liturgical preaching, the course will also provide a practicum to help students develop their homiletic skills and voice.

Field Education III – Pastoral Leadership – APT 320 – Price
This is the final section of the three-segment Field Education sequence and is required of all graduating seniors. This course focuses on leadership in ministry: understanding the church deployment system, meeting certain national canonical requirements (understanding Title IV), and discussing the principles of leadership and leadership theory. This course will meet every other Tuesday evening. (2 credits)

Liturgics III – Mass Class – Kevern
This is required for all graduating MDiv students. This course is a practicum designed for students to learn about presiding at the Eucharist. Other sacramental ministries will also be considered. This course will be scheduled at the convenience of the faculty and students. (2 credits)

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