ST750/950
Moral Theology
This course helps students answer that most important question, What is the good life? It takes its cue from Jesus’s teaching on the beatitudes and gives special attention to the virtues and the gifts of the Spirit. This course is a systematic treatment of moral theology, laying down those First Principles from which moral theology proceeds. This course explores Aristotelian moral philosophy and its appropriation by the Great Tradition on subjects such as natural law, virtue, etc. To that end, this course contrasts classical and modern approaches to moral theology. As a course in practical theology, the scope is twofold: we will ask how moral theology should inform the active life (especially in the Anglican Church), as well as the Christian’s engagement with this secular age.
Rev. Dr. David Ney does more than just invite students to deepen their knowledge of Christian history, he invites them to find their place within it as members of the Church. With a BA in Philosophy and Music from the University of Lethbridge, MDiv and ThM degrees from Regent College, and a ThD from Wycliffe College, he serves as Associate Professor of Church History. His Anglican formation helped him see that Anglicanism offers a vision for thick formation that is creedal, liturgical, social, embodied, and scriptural. He enthusiastically embraces the vocation of shepherding young evangelicals that are making a home in Anglicanism, and Trinity is the primary context for this calling.
Dr. Ney's goal as a teacher is to train students to see all things in the light of Christ, and the study of Church history, in this case, is a laboratory for this process of discovery. His hope is that students will be willing to engage challenging ideas charitably and that graduates will help other Christians see that the Word of God is living and active.
Dr. Ney is convinced that there is no substitute for residential theological education since education for ministry is not just about knowledge-acquisition, but is, rather, about breaking bread and fellowship, dialogue and common prayer. Dr. Ney and his wife enjoy having students into their home and his office is a place of attentive listening and prayer. He enjoys singing, playing the piano, soccer, hiking, and skiing.
Trinity is to be an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition. To this end we develop Christian leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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