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Yale Divinity School, together with Berkeley Divinity School, will offer a variety of continuing education courses during Summer Term 2009 in subject areas ranging from worship to history to biblical scholarship. Designed for both clergy and laity, YDS/BDS Summer Term courses do not carry academic credit but are available for denominational continuing education credit.

In keeping with its interdisciplinary mission, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will offer Summer Term courses reflecting the Institute's commitment to the study of liturgics, as well as to integration of music and all the arts into the spiritual life of faith communities.

Summer Term course offerings run for five consecutive days, all for half-day sessions except for the Icon Writing Workshop and a newly added course, Jonathan Edwards and his World.  Participants may enroll in multiple courses at a reduced rate. For all but the Icon Writing Workshop, tuition is $325 ($75 for current Yale students).

Descriptions of two programs that are not a formal part of the Summer Term offerings are also described below: Summer Languages 2009 (May 26-July 7) and Berkeley Divinity School’s Leadership Development Seminars (Jun 1-2).  Further details about each, including registration procedures, are available by contacting the administrators listed in the course descriptions.


Yale Divinity School
with Berkeley Divinity School
June 8-12

Yale Institute of Sacred Music

June 8-12

D01. The Letter of Paul to the Romans
Harold Attridge, Yale Divinity School
9:00-11:30 AM
$325

IN 15. J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Markus Rathey, Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale School of Music
9:00 – 11:30 AM
$325

D02. The Song of Songs in the Medieval Commentarial Traditions
Denys Turner, Yale Divinity School
9:00-11:30 AM
$325

IN 16. Now We Are One Body: Global Song
Patrick Evans, Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School
1:30 – 4:00 PM
$325
D03. Faith and the Practice of Writing
Nora Gallagher, Preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara and author of the best-selling memoir Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
Class is now filled.
 
D04. John Calvin (1509-2009): Reformer of the Church
Bruce Gordon, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
 
D05. “Friending” and Ship Wrecks: Pastoral Care with the Twenty-Somethings
Kristen Leslie, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
 

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Yale Divinity School
with Berkeley Divinity School
June 15-19

Yale Institute of Sacred Music
June 15-19

D06. Reading the Wall Street Journal: Understanding Everyday Economics for Church Leaders
Adam Greene ’09 M.Div., an Episcopal priest and founder, Salisbury Ventures LLC
9-11:30 AM
$325
This class has been canceled.

IN 17. Creation: Scripture and Literature
Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School, and Victoria Hoffer, Yale Divinity School
9:00 – 11:30 AM
$325

D07. The Bible through Art and Artifact
Julie Faith Parker, Yale University Department of Religious Studies
9:00-11:30 AM
$325
Class is now filled.

IN 18. Renewing Congregational Song
Patrick Evans, Yale Institute of Sacred Music / Yale Divinity School
1:30 - 4:00pm
$325

D08. Preaching the Lectionary: Year C
David Bartlett, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Robert Wilson, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325

 
D09. Getting a Word In: Writing about Faith
Ray Waddle, editor, Reflections, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
 

D10. Christian Leadership: Wisdom from the Early Church
Christopher Beeley, Berkeley Divinity School/Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325

 

Jonathan Edwards and His World
Ken Minkema, Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale
$400

Due to the late addition of this class, please write in the title on the mail-in registration form (pdf) if you wish to attend the course.

 

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Yale Divinity School
with Berkeley Divinity School
June 22-26

Yale Institute of Sacred Music
June 22-26

D11. Unity, Power, and the Common Good: Exegetical Explorations of 1 Corinthians in Social and Theological Perspectives
Judith Gundry, Yale Divinity School
9:00-11:30 AM
$325

IN 19. A Fresh Look at Hymn Playing: Several Approaches to Enlivening Congregational Song
Bruce Neswick, Director of Cathedral Music & Organist, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
9:00-11:30 AM
$325

D12. Faith Matters in the Second Nuclear Age
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Faithful Security: the National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger, Two Futures Project
9:00-11:30 AM
This class has been canceled.

IN 20. Icon Writing Workshop
Vladislav Andrejev, Prosopon School of Iconology
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (with one hour for lunch)
$600 (includes materials)

Class is now filled.

D13. Torah from Mt. Sinai: Making Sense of Biblical Law
Joel Baden, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
This class has been canceled.


 
D14. Pastoral Care and Addiction
M. Jan Holton, Yale Divinity School
1:30-4:00 PM
$325
 

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Yale Divinity School

Summer Languages 2009

May 26-July 7, Monday-Friday

Elementary Biblical Hebrew, Elementary New Testament Greek, and Ecclesiastical Latin

Faculty TBA
9:00 AM-1:00 PM, Monday-Friday
$2,280
 
Each course is fully comparable in scope and intent with two semesters of language taken during a regular academic year and earns six hours of credit.  More information and registration forms are available from the Registrar’s Office by e-mailing maryann.carrieri@yale.edu or calling 203-432-5311.

All incoming and current degree students are eligible to receive financial aid for 2009 Summer Language courses at YDS.  Students who do not have Summer Language registration forms can obtain them by contacting maryann.carrieri@yale.edu Completed registration forms must be sent to the Office of the Registrar and accompanied by a $300 non-refundable deposit, which will be credited toward the $2280 tuition fee.  Once registration has taken place and the student account has been billed for tuition, the financial office(Doreen.Generoso@yale.edu) will apply a partial scholarship to the account.  The amount of scholarship will be proportionate to the student’s academic year scholarship.

Berkeley Divinity School

Leadership Development Seminars
June 2-3

June 2-3: Intensive Leadership Development for Recent Graduates

Once in a parish, a new priest's need for leadership skills becomes readily apparent. How do I help a congregation develop a vision and move toward it? How do I lead change? How do I respond to financial and other crises? How do I stay connected with my original passion for ministry? With the guidance of skilled and experienced church leaders, this seminar will explore these and other issues with recent graduates (1-10 years out), paying particular attention to the transition from serving on a staff to taking on leading a congregation.

June 3: Leadership development for Church Wardens

Lay leadership is critical to church health and vitality, yet seldom does the church offer focused preparation and training for the pivotal role of church warden. This one-day workshop will address issues of wardens' canonical role, partnership with the clergy, position of leadership, and responsibility for finance, budget and physical plant. Led by experienced senior wardens, the program will focus on practical, hands-on learning.

Further details, including registration information, are available by contacting Alfred Tisdale, director of Anglican studies and formation, at 203-432-9285, william.tisdale@yale.edu

Please note that dates for Berkeley Divinity School sessions have been corrected. June 2-3 and June 3 are the correct dates. --Updated February 25, 2009

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