2 courses with the subject WRP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WRP 100DL Leading Christian Worship
(formerly PRAX 100 DL Worshipping Community) This course aims to equip leaders to prepare worship within and with a community, by examining the dimensions of Christian liturgy, including ritual, symbol, space, time, texts, and music; and the historical development of Christian liturgies and sacramental theologies. Through interdisciplinary and ecumenical engagement with worship practices, students will both prepare corporate worship appropriate to their own tradition and practice leading it. Some attention is given to the particular worship practices in American Lutheranism. Two hours synchronous and 1 hour asynchronous (Thursday evenings will be the online synchronous portion from 6:30-8:30 pm. The asynchronous portion will be one hour each week devoted to practical instruction, either on video or other means). Fulfills MDiv Worship requirement, or MA Praxis option, or free elective. [No prerequisites]
WRP 425IP Sacred City: Christian Architecture through History and in the City of Philadelphia
Christian worship has been grounded in the scriptural Ordo of Word, Bath and Meal and expressed in a variety of forms throughout our history. Yet the stability of this pattern of worship has taken place in very different kinds of spaces and with very different theologies through the periods of Christian history. In this course students will study the spaces in which Christians have worshipped, learning the different styles and theologies that inform them. This course will also take advantage of being located in the city 63
