Regent College Summer School Courses

A draft of the 2014 Regent College summer school classes is now available to view. Take a look here or below. I've highlighted some notable courses in red.

If you have never taken a course at Regent College, you should consider auditing or taking for credit any one of the many outstanding summer school sessions that are offered. It is wonderful to visit Vancouver any time of the year, but the city is at the peak of its beauty in the summer.

Summer Programs 2014

Spring Session

Weeks 1 & 2: MAY 12–23, 2014

May 12–23	Old Testament Foundations BIBL	Iain Provan
May 12–23	Living with Beastly Empires: The Book of Daniel BIBL	Iain Provan
May 12–23	The Anglican Heritage: History and Theology HIST/THEO	J.I. Packer
May 12–23	Mapping Gender HIST	Sarah Williams
May 12–23	God's Faithful Character: The Key to the New Testament's Use of the Old BIBL	Rikk Watts
May 12–23	Transformation the Gospel Way: A Study in Philippians	Ross Hastings

Week 3: MAY 26–30, 2014

May 26–30	Fostering a Scriptural Imagination for the Arts INDS	Jeremy Begbie
May 26–30	God is Light, God is Love: Major Themes in John's Letters BIBL	Karen Jobes
May 26–30	Restoring Story in Worship APPL/INDS	Jeff Barker
May 26–30	The Folly and the Ivy: A Critical Consideration of Christmas HIST	Gerry Bowler
May 26–30	God, Money, and the Rise of the Prosperity Gospel HIST	Kate Bowler
May 26–30	How Do I Help a Hurting Friend? APPL	Rod Wilson

Week 4 & 5: JUNE 2–13, 2014

June 2–6	Paradise Lost: The Poet, the Cosmos, and the Problem of Evil INDS	Dennis Danielson
June 2–6	With Skillful Hands and Integrity of Heart: Leadership Lessons from David APPL	Mark Buchanan
June 2–13	"What is Man?": Key Themes in the Theology of Being Human THEO	Paul Helm
June 2–13	Jesus in Celluloid INDS	Iwan Russell-Jones
June 9–13	The Virgin Mary: Art and Theology over Two Millennia INDS	Matthew Milliner
June 9–13	Conversion and Transformation SPIR	Gordon Smith
June 9–13	Google, Government, and the Rise of the Information State INDS	David Lyon

Summer Session

Weeks 1 & 2: JUNE 30–JULY 11, 2014

June 30–July 4	Valuing More than What Counts: The Ethics of Filmmaking INDS	John Stackhouse and Ralph Winter
June 30–July 4	The Whole Gospel: Mission Out of a Radical Evangelical Matrix APPL	Ruth Padilla DeBorst
June 30–July 4	Taking Your Soul to Work: Experiencing God in the Marketplace APPL/SPIR	Paul Stevens
July 7–11	Finding Liberty: The Christian Roots of the Modern Conscience INDS	Dominic Erdozain
July 7–11	Five Traditions and Practices of Prayer SPIR	Bruce Hindmarsh and Steve Bell
July 7–11	Releasing the Church for Integral Mission APPL	Ruth Padilla DeBorst

Weeks 3 & 4: JULY 14–25, 2014

July 14–18	War of the Worldviews: Science and Faith in the Twenty-First Century INDS	John Lennox
July 14–18	The Book of Exodus: From Slavery to Freedom BIBL	Keith Bodner
July 14–18	Homosexuality: Principal Ethics, Pastoral Implications, and Public Policies INDS	John Stackhouse
July 14–25	History of New Testament Interpretation BIBL	Robert Yarbrough
July 14–25	Contemplative Listening SPIR	Susan Phillips
July 14–25	Thinking Theologically about Culture INDS/THEO	Richard Mouw
July 14–25	How to Read Non-canonical Gospels BIBL	Markus Bockmuehl
July 21–25	Portraits of the Prophets BIBL	Keith Bodner
July 21–25	The Theological Ramifications of Western Music INDS	Daniel Chua

Week 5: JULY 28–AUG 1, 2014

July 28–Aug 1	The Principles of Culture Care INDS	Makoto Fujimura
July 28–Aug 1	Leading Well in Demanding Times APPL/INDS	Peter Shaw
July 28–Aug 1	Misreading Scripture: Lessons from The Scarlet Letter INDS	Marilyn McEntyre
July 28–Aug 1	Gaining the Whole World: The Ambiguous Success of American Evangelicalism HIST	George Marsden & Bill Svelmoe
July 28–Aug 1	Christianity and the Book: When Theology Meets Technology INDS	Alan Jacobs
July 28–Aug 1	The Place of Law in God's World INDS	Robert F. Cochran

BIBLICAL LANGUAGES: JUNE 30–AUG 15, 2014

June 30–Aug 15	Introductory New Testament Greek I & II LANG	TBD
June 30–Aug 15	Introductory Old Testament Hebrew I & II LANG	TBD

Congratulations William Eavenson and Paul Downer!

Last evening I attended the ordination service for William Eavenson and Paul Downer at the Mission Chattanooga. Eavenson and Downer are now official Anglican priests.

It was a moving service, with the Rt. Rev. Bishop Alexander "Sandy" Greene presiding over the ceremony, and speeches from Phil Downer (Paul's father) and Dr. Don Lewis, Professor of Church History at Regent College.

I was impressed with the fact that Dr. Lewis flew all the way from Vancouver, Canada in order to offer a five-minute charge to Eavenson. It was also remarkable to reflect on the fact that four of the ministers at the Mission Chattanooga are graduates (or current students) of Regent College.

Regent College Summer Courses

Vancouver, B.C., Canada is a wonderful place, especially in the spring and summer. If you can spare a week or two to audit or take for credit some of the amazing courses at Regent College, you won't regret it. Take a look at some of the upcoming courses:





May 13-24:

Hans Boersma: History of Christian Doctrine (THEO 608)
Douglas Moo: The Theology of Paul (BIBL 560)

May 27-31
Phil Long: The Book of Job: Encountering God in the Extremities of Life (BIBL 523)
Susan Phillips: Prayer and the Spiritual Life (SPIR 567)

June 3-14
Paul Williams and Paul Oslington: Christianity and the Political Economy of Capitalism (INDS 583)
Loren and Mary-Ruth Wilkinson: Food: Communion, Community, and Creation (INDS 535)

June 10-14
Gordon Smith: Spiritual Discernment (SPIR 619)

July 1-5
J. I. Packer: 2 Corinthians (BIBL 567)

July 1-12
Lynn Cohick: Philippians (BIBL 676)
Paul Helm: Augustine's Pilgrimage of Grace (SPIR/THEO 530)
Ralph Wood: J. R. R. Tolkien: Writer for Our Time or Terror (INDS 592)
Malcolm Guite: Faith, Hope, and Poetry (INDS 538)
Loren and Mary-Ruth Wilkinson: Technology, Wilderness, and Creation (INDS 525)

July 15-19
Andrew Walls: Six-Continent Christianity (HIST 533)

July 15-26
Chris Hall: Spirituality in the Life and Thought of the Church Fathers (HIST/SPIR 654)
Roger Lundin: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief (INDS 569)

July 22-26
Mary Noll: The Recent World History of Christianity (HIST 591)

July 29-August 2
Bruce Waltke: Light from the Dark Ages: An Exposition of Judges and Ruth (BIBL 615)
Scot McKnight: The Kingdom of God in the Teachings of Jesus (BIBL 514)
Jim Houston: Living Elders in a Dying Church (SPIR 525)
Soong-Chan Rah: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (APPL 526)
William Romanowski: Hollywood Cinema and the Christian Imagination (INDS 512)

For the full list of summer courses at Regent College, click here.

Also, check out the following scheduled Public Lectures:

May 15: Iain Provan: "The Tea Party, the Taliban, and the Temptation of Power: Which Kind of Society is 'Biblical'?"

May 22: Douglas Moo: "All Things New: God's Program of New Creation"

May 29: Susan Phillips: "Spirituality of Cultivation: A Response to Disorders of Attention and Attachment"

June 5: Alister McGrath: "The Life and Impact of C.S. Lewis"

June 12: Gordon Smith: "Generation to Generation: Passing on the Faith to the Children of the Church"

July 1: Ralph Wood: "G.K. Chesterton and Christopher Hitchens: Old Convert vs. New Atheist"

July 3: Lynn Cohick: "Women of the Ancient World"

July 8: Paul Helm: "Theology: Only Words about Words?"

July 10: Malcolm Guite: "The Word Made Flesh: Christ and the Imagination"

July 15: John Stackhouse: "La Sagrada Familia, El Mundo Sagrado: The Wild Christian Architecture of Antoni Gaudi"

July 17: Roger Lundin: "Tell Me a Story: Modern Narratives and the Search for God"

July 22: Chris Hall: "Creedal Hermeneutics: How the Church Can Help Us Read the Bible"

July 24: David Smith: "Bonhoeffer, Practices, and Pedagogy"

July 31: Soong-Chan Rah: "Tears of Hope and Change: The Need for Lament in a Multicultural World"