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PARISH 806 Caring for Creation

Climate change concept

This course will consider the various ways churches can address the leading environmental crisis of our time: global warming, species and biodiversity loss, food and water, habitat loss, pollution, etc. Various models of care (stewardship, priesthood, and virtue) and church practice (education, liturgy, and mission) will be considered and developed.

This course has two meeting patterns.
Immersion Week: (1/6/25 – 1/10/25) MTWThF 12:50PM – 2:30PM
Synchronous sessions W 11:45AM – 1:00PM within the dates of 1/20/25-3/31/25
Open to DIV students
This course will have pre-work due on or around the first day of class.

Instructor: Norman Wirzba
Class Number: 4664
Career(s): Divinity School Graduate
Session: Divinity Hybrid
Units: 1
Semester(s): Spring 2025