DIOCESAN SCHOOL FOR MISSION & MINISTRY COURSE ENROLLMENT (WINTER 2026):
2026 WINTER offerings:
OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY
ANGLICAN THEOLOGY OF CULTURE: Everyday encounters between church & city
CLASSES MEET ON SATURDAYS BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 10*
Registration for credit toward a certificate or diploma is $330 per course. Registration as an auditor (i.e., one who attends a class informally without earning credits toward a certificate or diploma) is $85 per course.
8:30 am - 1;30 pm Old Testament Survey | Deacon John Pegues
12:00 - 5:00 pm Anglican Theology of Culture | Canon Aaron Jeffrey
*CLASS MEETING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, January 10
Saturday, January 24
Saturday, February 14
Saturday, February 28
Saturday, March 14
Saturday, March 28
Students enrolled in both classes meet from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Students enrolled only in Old Testament Survey meet from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. Students enrolled only in Anglican Theology of Culture meet from 12:00 to 5:00 pm.
Saturday Schedule:
8:30 am-9:00 am | Morning Prayer
9:00 am-12:00 pm | Old Testament Survey
12:00 pm-1:30 pm | Holy Eucharist & Meal Together
1:30 pm-4:30 pm | Anglican Theology of Culture
4:30 pm-5:00 pm | Evening Prayer
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Old Testament Survey - This course introduces students to the literature, theology, and historical context of the Hebrew Scriptures using Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey by Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer. The course traces the Old Testament’s canonical shape - from Torah through Prophets and Writings - attending to genre, geography, and the ancient Near Eastern world that frames Israel’s story. Students will engage key themes such as covenant, creation, kingship, wisdom, exile, and hope, learning how these texts functioned in Israel’s life and worship. Readings and lectures emphasize careful literary and historical interpretation alongside theological reflection, equipping students to read the Old Testament as Christian Scripture. By the end of the course, students will be able to summarize each biblical book (as homework), articulate its theological contributions, and situate the Old Testament within the larger drama of redemption fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Anglican Theology of Culture: Everyday Encounters Between Church & City - This course explores how Anglican theology understands culture not as a neutral backdrop or partisan battlefield, but as a contested space of meaning, desire, and human formation. Drawing on the Anglican sacramental imagination, students will examine how everyday practices (e.g., language, habits, institutions, and political life) are sites where the Church’s worship either witnesses to or is distorted from the truth of God. Building on theology’s unavoidable cultural embeddedness, the course resists reducing politics to ideology or mood, instead diagnosing cultural conflicts at the level of "ontology" (i.e., what we believe is real, good, and worth desiring). Anglican polity is presented as a sacramental form of life (i.e., ordered, communal, and liturgical), shaping how the Church inhabits the city without capitulating to it. Through theological reflection and concrete case studies (as homework), students will learn to discern, critique, and faithfully live within contemporary culture as a field of mission rather than a problem to be solved.