COURSE FULL for 2025
The course will address the challenges of slavery, racism, and reparation in The Episcopal Church through careful engagement with the Christian scriptures. Starting with the complicated biblical witness on slavery, the course will consider what we should do with the positive use of the language of enslavement that appears in both the scriptures and the BCP. The course will draw direct links between the biblical treatment of slavery and modern affirmation of it in the Anglican and Episcopal Churches and will discuss the interpretive approaches available for rejecting the language and paradigms of slavery. The course will also consider biblical texts linked to racism and address interpretive approaches oriented around anti-racism. Finally, students will consider the biblical witness on making amends for corporate sins and the sins of previous generations, and discuss how these biblical imperatives relate to modern reparations movements.
Instructor: Dr. Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski
Day/Time: Fridays, 1:00p-2:15p Eastern
Dates: February 7-April 11
