CREATION CARE: CALLING & CONTEXT (IDS-5300)

This doctoral level course has been created specifically to establish competency in and baseline self-knowledge (indigenous genogram) as creation care specialists and foundational knowledge of the ecological disciplines broadly, and how those disciplines intersect or relate to or integrate with scripture, philosophy, history, and theology. Students will understand the broad scope of green-scholarship or ecology (science, food, energy, climate, nature) as it relates to a biblical, theological, philosophical, literary, historical worldview. They will gain understanding in the dialog between science and religion as it relates to a “theology of nature” or a “natural theology” and creation care. Students will show competency in history, art, film, and other educational formats as it relates to creation care and the environment. [Faculty Consent required; Auditors with faculty permission;15 max enrollment]