Katongole and Rice

Fall 2007: Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice taught their course titled “Journeys of Reconciliation” for the second time.

Spring 2007: Emmanuel Katongole taught a course titled “Rwandan Genocide and the Challenge for the Church.”

Fall 2006, Visiting Practitioner Fellow David Porter, director of the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland, taught a course titled “Thinking Biblically, Building Peace: Perspectives on Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation from the Northern Ireland Experience.”

Spring 2006: Center co-directors Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice taught a new course, “Journeys of Reconciliation.”

Journeys of Reconciliation attempts to bridge the gap between increasingly popular “peace studies” programs and the prominence of “reconciliation” in Christian ministries. What has largely been missing is a conversation bringing together theological reflection and social analysis on the one hand with concrete Christian practice and living on the other. The course's goal is the recovery of reconciliation as a journey with God as a concrete Christian practice. The class journeyed into the city of Durham to explore places of social brokenness and hope and engaged biblical visions/narratives as well as such books from John Paul Lederach’s The Moral Imagination and Charles Marsh’s The Beloved Community.

Reconciliation-Related Courses at Duke Divinity School

Recent courses include:

• “Prophetic Ministry: Shaping Communities of Justice”
• “The Missional Church and Evangelism”
• “Faith Based Community Development and Poverty”
• “Introduction to Spanish Language and Culture for Pastors”
• “Leadership & Discipleship”

• “Christianity in Asia”
• “Beyond Borders: Latin American, Latino, and Hispanic Theologies”
• “Healing in the Developing World and Care of the Underserved”
• “The Nation-State and Theology in Africa”
• “The Rwanda Genocide and the Challenge for the Church”

• “Gender and Race in Paul”
• “To Work and to Watch: Toward A Biblical Ecology/Theology of Land”

• “The Black Church in America”
• “The Life and Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.”
• “Race, Modernity, and Theology”
• “Theology and the Black Activist Tradition”

• “Pastoral Care in Cross Cultural Perspectives”

• “Christian Ethics as Improvisation”
• “War in the Christian Tradition”

• “Social Significance of the Lord’s Supper”
• “Does Doctrine Still Divide? Contemporary Challenges in the Ecumenical Dialogue”

• “Preaching About Social Crises”

• “Health Ministries: Foundation of Practice”