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2008-2009 course offerings The Reformed Institute offers courses for those who want to engage in study and reflection on themes related to the Reformed tradition. These courses are taught by members of the Institute’s Company of teachers. The course offerings:
The cost of all Reformed Institute courses is as follows:
You may register online, then send payment to Mary Hill, the Program Coordinator, P.O. Box 1928, Alexandria, VA 22313 COURSES TO BE OFFERED IN THE 2008–2009 PROGRAM YEAR ARE THE FOLLOWING The Problem and Promise of Work-Life Deadline for registration: September 3, 2008 As we approach the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, there is a renewed interest in Calvin’s ideas. One issue facing modern Americans, modern Christians and modern Presbyterians that Calvin’s ideas influence is how we achieve or don’t achieve work and life balance. The Reformed tradition both contributes to the problem of a lack of balance and has the resources to help with it. This six week program is designed to help the heirs of Calvinism understand their own tradition, address the broader issue of work and life balance, and develop a plan to make changes to improve their lives. We will look at current data on work life balance and discuss our own experiences, examine the Biblical understanding of the concept of time, explore how the Reformed tradition came to contribute to the modern problem, then examine how Calvin’s views of the three “S’s” — Sabbath, Stewardship and Sanctification — can provide resources to help us address this problem and develop a plan for making changes. Instructor: David Gray REGISTER ON LINE or call Mary Hill, the Institute's program coordinator, (703) 518-5125.
What the Reformers Teach Us about Thinking, Praying, Living Deadline for registration: October 1, 2008 The 16th century Reformers speak directly to our problems and preoccupations.
Can the Reformers show us how to get out lives into better balance? Yes — and this course will consider how, through reading and discussion of the Reformers’ words alongside discussion of our present cultural situation. Instructor: Ann White REGISTER ON LINE or call Mary Hill, the Institute's program coordinator, (703) 518-5125.
“A Divine and Supernatural Light”: Dates: Second Saturdays, October 2008 through March 2009 Deadline for registration: October 1, 2008 No one argues about it: Jonathan Edwards is colonial America’s greatest theologian and philosopher. He towers over the age as a religious figure. But though his roots are in colonial Puritanism, he worked to reshape a Puritan worldview into something quite different. He was modern for his own time. He sought to reconcile higher learning of the day with a loving piety and achieved this with an elegance not since seen. Studies of the life, work, theology, and influence of Jonathan Edwards have received new energy in the last few years, particularly on the heels of the tercentenary of Edwards’s birth in 2003. The publication of his massive collected works, begun in 1957, is only just now being completed. In this course, happening 250 years after his death, we will take advantage of this recent scholarship and explore how Edwards and his work have continued to have an impact on American thought. Instructor: Melissa Kirkpatrick REGISTER ON LINE or call Mary Hill, the Institute's program coordinator, (703) 518-5125.
Biblical Morality — The Reformed Version Dates: Second Saturdays, October 2008 through March 2009 Deadline for registration: October 1, 2008 With morality as with everything else that matters to people of faith Reformed Christians have always maintained that they take their bearings above all from the Bible. But they have read that text and made use of it in distinctive ways. The purpose of this course is to examine critically the character of Reformed ethics, focusing in particular on what is distinctive about the Reformed approach to the use of Scripture as a resource for deliberation on moral issues. The course will provide the participants with an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the thinking of some of the key figures in the development of Reformed thought (Calvin, Barth, the Niebuhrs, Mouw, etc.) as well as to explore some of the issues that are currently the focus of moral reflection in Reformed churches. Instructor: R. Bruce Douglass REGISTER ON LINE or call Mary Hill, the Institute's program coordinator, (703) 518-5125.
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