Monday, July 31, 2017 - 05:30 to Saturday, August 5, 2017 - 12:30
These two Licentiate in Theology Courses will be offered back to back in the week of July 31st to August 5th.
$300 per course + Registration fee of $16.95
On campus accommodation will be available:
Church History I - Sunday to Tuesday Accommodations $150
Church History I & II - Sunday to Friday Accommodations $250
Confirmation of registration is due before June 30th with a $50 non-refundable deposit per course.
Church History I
This course will examine the early history of the Church through the lens of the theological and historical movements that gave the Church its shape and meaning in the first 600 years af-ter Jesus. Rather than seeing the church’s development as a series of chronological dates and names, we will look at the texts of the early church using basic historical methods of document study. In so doing we will begin to see that the claims of Jesus’ followers and the communities they founded were shaped by the world around them, and affected the development of the lan-guage, theology, and the structure of the Church.
Church History II
This course will examine the history of the Church from the medieval through the Reformation period. We will be looking at this period through the lens of the theological and historical movements that were part of both the perceived stability of the medieval order through the re-naissance and humanist movements and concluding with a look at what happened in the Refor-mation - both the English Reformation and the Continental Reformation.
The Right Reverend William Cliff
Bishop of Brandon
The Right Reverend William Cliff was born in Wyoming and went to High School in Petrolia, Ontario before University. Ordained Deacon and Priest in 1992, Bishop William is a pastor, musician and liturgist who had been working in the Diocese of Huron with young people for his whole ministry before his election in Brandon. As a member of the group "The Three Can-tors", Bishop William is one of four musicians who have traveled internationally singing con-certs for development and the relief of hunger. This and 4 CD's have raised over a million dol-lars. Published nationally on a variety of subjects, and a regular columnist in his Church paper, Bishop William writes regarding his method of interpreting scripture to young people, as well as having been a commentator for CBC NewsWorld and CanadaAM on stories with a religious subject. Gifted in interpreting the Bible to young people, Bishop William has been a keynote speaker at conferences on Stewardship, as well as holding an annual session with the "Ask and Imagine" program attendees called "Bull with Bill": a session of no-hold-barred questions about faith, sex, commitment, scripture, theology and growing up a Christian in today's world. In 2010 the National conference for youth in the Anglican and Lutheran Churches (CLAY 2010) featured him as their keynote speaker and his addresses to over 1000 youth gathered in bible study together have garnered serious interest. Invited back to the next two conferences in 2012 and 2014, he led "Bull with Bill" sessions in rooms filled to bursting with young people eager to hear straight talk on faith and growing in the faith.
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