Summer Courses at Ecumenical Theological Seminary
Have you considered auditing a course at ETS?
Interested in Seminary?
Would you like to be a Guest Student?
There’s so much to learn at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary!! Particularly our Summer curriculum. Come, absorb all our world-class faculty have to offer!
Did you know you can audit a course at ETS for just $440 for a two-credit class, and $880 for a four-credits course? Take a look at the Summer Schedule, select the course that interests you. Contact our Admissions Director, Dr. Brandon Grafius by email at bgrafius@etseminary.edu or by phone at, 313.831.5200, e217 to start the process. Operators are standing by Monday–Thursday from 9AM-5PM. Summer Registration closes on June 5, 2017.
Guest students from other schools have an opportunity to ‘get to know us’. Complete the online application, submit documentation indicating you are in good academic and financial standing (must be in a sealed envelope). And you are on your way to learning more about Research, Writing, Church History, Spirituality, Interreligious Dialogue, and Christian Education, just to name a few. Below you will get to know the professors teaching this Summer, in addition to a description of the courses.
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A Crescendo of Holiday Joy Concert
delivered by our Commencement speaker, artist Tyree Guyton, founder of the internationally renowned Heidelberg Project here in Detroit. Now, we are preparing for our Doctor of Ministry students to return in August, and I just received the wonderful news that our Admissions Committee has admitted a record-breaking incoming class for the Fall Quarter when our Masters, Certificate, and Urban Ministry Diploma students return. Good news indeed!
academic Master of Arts, in which students can pursue graduate study specifically in Biblical studies, theology, or ethics. We honor Dr. Anneliese Sinnott, O.P. in her retirement after 29 years on the Faculty of Ecumenical Theological Seminary, and simultaneously welcome our new full-time Faculty member, Dr. Hannah Hofheinz, who has lived in Istanbul, Turkey this past year following the completion of her Th.D. at Harvard Divinity School. The Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. Harris is stepping down as Dean after five years in that role, but will continue his service to ETS as Professor of Biblical Studies, while Rev. Dr. Tony Curtis Henderson moves into the role of Interim Dean. We are in a season of change!
continue to offer leadership as we prepare the next generation of ministers and chaplains, pastors and priests, activists and scholars who will lead our churches, visit us in hospitals, and write the books that inspire our souls and ministries. We are so thankful for your support over our 35 years of providing a theological education in metropolitan Detroit.
specifically academic focus offered by Ecumenical Theological Seminary, with students able to choose among three areas of focus: Biblical Studies, Theology, or Ethics. In our design of this program, we believed that these three areas represent the academic strengths of our ETS Faculty, with notable faculty members in each of these fields bearing national and even international reputations through their books and journal publications, conference presentations, and leadership roles in academic societies. Furthermore, we believe that these three fields of study, Biblical Studies, Theology, and Ethics, will attract graduate students from a variety of backgrounds: pastors who want to learn more about an academic field that will enhance their preaching and public witness; recent college graduates who wish to gain the foundation of a master’s degree in a field of religious studies before applying to Ph.D. programs; and laity who wish to engage their interests in the academic study of their faith who may be from all walks of life.
version of our M.A. degree, the first graduate degree that Ecumenical Theological Seminary is able to offer fully online. We already boast a strong selection of online courses in Biblical Studies, and look forward in future years to broadening our online courses in the fields of Theology and Ethics. This offers the promise of Ecumenical Theological Seminary, rooted to Detroit in its bones, to attract students from throughout the United States and Canada, even across the globe, for a graduate degree program that is not limited to those who can commute to metropolitan Detroit. The potential of Ecumenical Theological Seminary to become a truly national level seminary is real.
Wayne State University, that all faculty, staff, and students of Ecumenical Theological Seminary will enjoy the same on-site and remote access to WSU library collections as their respective WSU counterparts. This is will allow ETS constituencies access to the extensive Wayne State University research facilities, including the book collection of ETS which will move to the WSU Library system during July 2016. At ETS, we plan to keep a substantial portion of our book collection focused on pastoral ministry, preaching, and counseling materials as the ETS Resource Center, which we hope to make available to our ETS students and alumni in the coming months.
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