BL7411 1 January 2026 - DMin Leadership Core Course: New Testament Models for Just & Wise Leadership
Course Description
The course will critically analyze New Testament narratives that provide leadership models in dialogue with the wisdom and experience of contemporary thinkers. This course attempts to challenge and motivate moral leaders to lead wisely, justly, powerfully, transformationally, and equitably as well as with accountability, vulnerability, and integrity within faith communities and in the public square. 3 Credits.
Student Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives
As a result of taking this course
1. Students will define moral leadership and articulate the difference and connection between moral leadership and moral agency in conversation with biblical texts.
2. Students will write a paper in which they create dialogue between biblical texts and theories of moral leadership and abolitionism.
3. Students will critically interpret biblical texts using an intersectional lens that promotes justice and encourages moral agency.
4. Student will prepare a journal of moral agency and leadership.
Course Materials
- Instructor: Mitzi Smith
Students will be introduced to qualitative research methodologies to utilize for ministry as well as for extensive research in their final projects. In depth library research methods will also be introduced to enhance information literacy skills. The course includes preliminary/ practice designs of the DMin final project.
This course is a prerequisite for the DMin 7800 DMin Practicum and DMin I7310 Project Proposal Workshop.
- Instructor: Jeffery Tribble
- Instructor: Chanequa Walker-Barnes
- Instructor: Mark Douglas
- Instructor: Sue Park