Current Courses

Modular Schedule Information

CTH utilizes a modular schedule to accommodate the seminary’s working students. Classes are offered on a quarterly basis (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) throughout the school year. CTH courses are taught in a one-weekend format. Unless otherwise noted, classes meet on the assigned weekend as follows: Friday noon-8 pm; Saturday 8 am-8 pm; Sunday noon-4 pm. Additional pre-and post-class assignments, including a final paper, are required.

Additional courses outside the residential classes are offered to accommodate the student’s ability to continue through each program of study in a timely manner. These classes may be completed through the External Studies program as well as through Directed Studies with individual instructors.

A full-time schedule means that the student could potentially complete up to ten residential courses and several other courses via external or directed study per year.

Modular Courses

Dallas Campus

2025 Winter/Spring

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Charles Erlandson

    Class Dates: January 17-19 2025

    Course Description: Exploration of the Biblical, liturgical, and pastoral aspects of Holy Matrimony and the Christian family. Special consideration is given to the examination of the whole range of relational dynamics, including engagement and pre-marital relationship, the service of Holy Matrimony, having and rearing children, the ethics of birth control, and spousal and parent/child relationships.

  • Lecturer: The Most Rev. Dr. Ray R. Sutton

    Class Dates: February 21-23 2025

    Course Description: An in-depth examination of the origins and development of Christianity in Britain. Special attention is given to the early British saints, Roman subjugation of the British Church, the English Reformers, the Elizabethan Settlement, Puritanism, the Caroline Divines, the Non-Jurors, Tractarianism, and modern controversies in the Anglican Communion.

  • Lecturer: Mr. Christopher Hoyt 

    Class Dates: March 14-16 2025

    Course Description: This course is designed to provide the student with the theoretical knowledge and practical tools necessary to supervise an Anglican music ministry in a parish. The course will survey Biblical and theological rationales for church music, cultivate practical skills for planning and leading sung congregational worship in the Anglican tradition, and familiarize the student with a variety of musical resources (particularly the hymnal).

  • Lecturer: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles Camlin

    Class Dates: April 4-6 2025

    Course Description: Introduction to the history, science, and art of preaching. Consideration is given to sermon preparation, structure, and delivery. Special attention is devoted to preaching from the lectionary of The Book of Common Prayer.

  • Lecturer: The Ven. James T. Payne

    Class Dates: May 2-4 2025

    Course Description: Introduction to the principles of Canon Law and Pastoral Administration, the Constitution and Canons of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and the doctrinal foundations of these governing documents. The application of canon law in the governance of parishes is discussed in the context of pastoral administration, including parish by-laws, vestry oversight, pastoral ethics, parish budgets, and policies to reduce parish liability in legal matters

2025 Summer

  • Lecturer: The Very Rev. Frank Levi

    Class Dates: June 20-22, 2025.  The class is offered in our weekend modular format both in-person and via Zoom.

    Course Description: Introduction to the subject of moral theology and ethics – i.e., the Biblical, philosophical, and historical approaches to ethics and morality in the Church. Special consideration is given to an examination of the Ten Commandments.

  • Lecturer: The Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman

    Class Dates: August 8-10, 2025.  This class is only offered in-person at the cathedral in Dallas.

    Course Description: The purpose of this course is to help the students to implement what they learn in Liturgics (LS 502) in the parish setting. The course has to do with the “how to” side of the Divine Liturgy. The course will explore the breadth of liturgical services and rites being used in the Reformed Episcopal Church and the ACNA. It will cover everything from how to perform a baptism, wedding, and funeral, to more specific functions such as preparing the altar/table for the Holy Communion and doing the consecration. The course will also cover high and low church approaches to doing the liturgy, including the differences between the two. Primary emphasis is given to the services which are found in The Book of Common Prayer.

2025 Fall

  • Lecturer: The Ven. James T. Payne

    Class Dates: September 12-14, 2025.  Our weekend modular classes may now be taken either in-person at the cathedral in Dallas or online via Zoom.

    Course Description: Particular focus is placed on the life and work of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Cranmer, as well as events leading up to the Reformation. The Modern section focuses on the period from the Reformation to today, covering contemporary theology and its tendencies toward heresy.

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Steven Rutt

    Class Dates: October 10-12, 2025.  Our weekend modular classes may now be taken either in-person at the cathedral in Dallas or online via Zoom.

    Course Description: General survey of the 39 canonical books of the Old Testament, with an overview and critique of the major critical theories in Old Testament studies. Special attention is paid to the historical reliability of the biblical texts and to the New Testament fulfillment.

  • Lecturer: The Very Rev. Frank Levi 

    Class Dates: November 7-9, 2025.  Our weekend modular classes may now be taken either in-person at the cathedral in Dallas or online via Zoom.

    Course Description: Introduction to the history of and methodologies used in the defense of the Christian faith as practiced from the earliest days of Christianity to the present. Special consideration is given to various Christian approaches such as Thomism, natural theology, presuppositionalism and so forth, as contrasted with rationalism, existentialism, empiricism, and logical positivism, etc. The goal of this course is to familiarize the student with the tools of logic to produce a balanced, rational apology for the Christian hope.

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Nevada DeLapp

    Class Dates: December 5-7, 2025. Our weekend modular classes may now be taken either in-person at the cathedral in Dallas or online via Zoom.

    Course Description: This course brings together the Old and New Testaments with an emphasis on the Tabernacle, offerings, sacrifices, sufficiency of the death of Christ, priesthood, and the one people of God. It also provides an interpretive model for the unity of the Bible.

Online Courses

2025 Summer

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Joshua Harper

    Class Dates: June-August, 2025.  The class is offered in an online, interactive format on Monday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm CT.

    Course Description: Practical introduction to the exegesis of the Hebrew Old Testament with special attention to methodology and bibliography.  Prerequisite: Hebrew I & II.

2025 Fall

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Joshua Harper

    Class Dates: September-December, 2025.  The class is offered in an online, interactive format on Monday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm CST.

    Course Description: Introduction to the essentials of Greek vocabulary, grammar, and syntax.  The goal is to bring each student to an elementary reading ability in simple Greek as well as a proficiency to use the tools available to the parish minister.

  • Lecturer: Dss. Canon Annette M. Johnson

    Class Dates: September-December, 2025.  The class is offered in an online, interactive format on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm CST.

    Course Description: A study of the Biblical and historical foundations for the Office of Deaconess and of the duties of an Anglican Deaconess. Of particular focus will be the qualifications and requirements for becoming a deaconess along with a review of the REC Canons and Deaconess Handbook. This course also includes an overview of the practical ministries to which a deaconess may be called.

  • Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Randall Toms

    Class Dates: September-December, 2025.  The class is offered in an online, interactive format on Thursday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm CST.

    Course Description: Introduction to the 27 canonical books of the New Testament along with a survey of the cultural background of the New Testament. Special consideration is given to the study of the development and definition of the New Testament canon. Recent studies and New Testament criticism in modern times are also considered along with the message of each book.