Duke University - Christian Virtues for Spiritual Growth
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Christian Virtues for Spiritual Growth at Coursera Overview
Duration | 5 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Christian Virtues for Spiritual Growth at Coursera Course details
- Apply the distinctiveness and narrative shape of Christian convictions and the process by which character is formed to your own life
- Explain the role virtues play in Christian discipleship
- This Duke Divinity+ course is for all those who seek to cultivate their interior lives and to develop a way of thinking about ethics inspired by Christian tradition
- In this course, renowned theologian Stanley Hauerwas reflects on the significance of specific virtues for understanding what it means to be a Christian. He examines the meaning and significance of four key virtues kindness, hope, humility, and generosity and their importance to living a good life
- Further, you will consider the practical aspects of living a virtuous life
- We will discuss the challenges to living the virtues, and examine how they can be cultivated by incorporating contemplative practices in your everyday life
- Week 1 draws on baptism as our initiation into a new story and way of being in the world
- In Week 1, you will explore the virtue of kindness through the character of God, reflected in how we treat ourselves and others
- Week 2 focuses on hope
- In Week 3, you will explore the virtue of humility, and reflecting on the paradox that trying to be humble often ends in pride
- Finally, Week 4 closes with an exploration of generosity, demonstrating how different virtues reveal the God who is unrelentingly generous
Christian Virtues for Spiritual Growth at Coursera Curriculum
Course Introduction and Kindness
Welcome to the Course!
Forming Virtue
Why Kindness? Studying Holy Examples
How to Live the Virtues: Kindness, Listening, and Beauty
Stanley’s Two Cents: The End of Protestantism
Course Introduction
About the Group Discussion Guide
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Online Discussion Guidelines
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Week 1 Formation Exercise
Closing: For Your Great, Big, Dumb Heart
Instructions for Going Deeper
Fall Appeal: November 1957
Excerpt from Revelations of Divine Love
Quiz to Open the Group Discussion Guide
Kindness
Introduce Yourself
Week 1 Formation Exercise Reflection
Hope
Hope Points Us to Purpose
Endurance Creates Hope
Eternity is Now
Advice to Pastors
Hope Inspires Action
Hope in the Pauline Epistles
Stanley’s Two Cents: Freedom vs. Narrative
Prisoner of Hope
Week 2 Formation Exercise
Closing: For When Hope Seems Lost
Pauli Murray's Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee
Hope
Week 2 Formation Exercise Reflection
Humility
It’s All Greek to Me: The Odd Virtue of Humility
Humility Points to Friendship
Jesus Humbled Himself to Death
Humility vs. Insecurity
Stanley’s Two Cents: The Challenges of Technology
Homilies of Óscar Romero
Week 3 Formation Exercise
Closing: For Stretching Your Heart
Phillippians 2: 5-8 (RSV)
Confessions: Excerpt from Book 7
What Archbishop Romero Teaches Us about Public Courage
Humility
Week 3 Formation Exercise Reflection
Generosity
Generosity and Power
Forgiveness: An Alternative to Violence
Selfishness or Courage?
Generosity and Foot Washing
Looking Back on the Virtues
Stanley's Two Cents: Marriage and Family
Hold Out and Create the Place that the World Has Never Seen
Week 4 Formation Exercise
Closing: A Blessing Before You Act With Kindness
Give Your Feedback on the Course (Survey)
Eulogy for Juana Estrada Chávez
Generosity
Week 4 Formation Exercise Reflection
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