- Instructor: Chris Seeman
The core of Paul’s life is Jesus Christ Crucified and Risen!
This core is both an encounter/experience and a knowledge which live on well after the historical event in Paul’s and the Church’s life.
For Paul, Christ Crucified/Risen is in …
- a theology that is actually a staurology (derived from the Greek word for cross [stauro/ß]), a theology of the Cross;
- Paul receives his encounter and understanding of it by a particular kind of Revelation, namely, a divinely initiated knowledge (epignosis; Gk = e˙pi÷gnwsiß), which brings its own grace to assist humans in receiving it;
- when this Revelation and Divine Knowledge are grapsed, we are in the process of being saved;
- Paul calls this kind of salvation “mystery” (Gk: musth/rion), a divine secret now revealed, with such clarity, beauty and power that it is, itself, a manifestation of salvation. This “mystery” the foundation of our sacraments.
- Instructor: Michael Markham
Sacramental Theology
- Instructor: Bill Ditewig
- Instructor: Michael Berstene
- Instructor: Rick Graff
- Instructor: Ella Johnson
- Formator: Louis Iasiello
This course has been developed specifically to address the canon law topics which most frequently arise in the parish ministry of deacons, based on numerous requests from officers and members of the National Association of Diaconate Directors. Canon Law plays an important part in every element of pastoral ministry. As Doctor Edward Peters, JCL, JCD of Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit has remarked: "Most cradle Catholics, having grown up with a vague awareness of the presence of canon law-‐however incomplete and even erroneous their understanding of Church law might be-‐ are much less likely to pose questions about the operation of canon law unless, perchance, they find themselves directly affected by it. Not so with candidates for conversion; they are motivated to ask questions about all facets of Church life." As deacons and parish ministers, in addition to being guided by the precepts of canon law, you'll be seen as a de facto subject-‐matter expert by many with whom you come into contact.
- Instructor: john mcmanus