The course traces and relates the interrelated doctrinal patterns found in the work. A one-semester course exploring Swedenborg's concepts of person in comparison with some current concepts of person. A one-semester course which introduces students to Swedenborg's insights into the nature of spirituality, and examines other approaches from the history of Western mysticism. Each student is required to choose a qualified person to serve as his or her spiritual advisor, and to develop a spiritual self-care plan. A one-semester course which focuses on a comparison between Swedenborgian spirituality, and representative Eastern spiritualities such as Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Muslim.
Course includes practice in disciplines of spirituality such as meditation.
A one-semester course covering basic areas in transformational spirituality such as healing, how to listen to God, spiritual direction, retreats and group work, the eucharist, spiritual life and social ethics, and prophetic and New Testament Biblical material. A one-semester course which requires students to apply principles of Swedenborgian exegesis to selected section of the Bible with the particular goal of seeing personal and societal issues in a developmental theological framework. A one-semester course involving reading and intensively exploring Heaven and Hell and Marriage Love as complete works. In the course there is a balancing between grasping the work's content and applying themes from the work to educational and ministry contexts. A one-semester course involving reading and intensely exploring True Christian Religion as a complete work.