Amy Sherman
Director, Center on Faith in Communities, Sagamore Institute
BA (Messiah College), MA, PhD (University of Virginia)
Dr. Amy L. Sherman directs the Sagamore Institute’s Center on Faith in Communities. In 2012, Christianity Today named her one of the fifty most influential evangelical women in America. She served for several years as Director of Urban Ministries at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, VA, and has written six books.
Courses Taught
- APPL 500 - Soul of Ministry: Becoming Persons-in-Relation
- APPL 517 - Bullies and Saints: Lessons from Church History
- APPL 529 - Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
- APPL 543 - Worship in Polyrhythm
- APPL 545 - The Galilean: Details of the Heart of Jesus
- APPL 546 - Pastoral Care
- APPL 551 - Healthcare and the Christian Life
- APPL 578 - When Christians Disagree: Church Unity in an Age of Division
- APPL 579 - Culture, Faith, and Mental Health
- APPL 586 - Spiritual Practice
- APPL 651 - Anglican Life: Polity and Liturgy
- APPL 693 - Supervised Ministry A: Contemplative Ministry
- APPL 694 - Supervised Ministry B: Leadership
- APPL 721 - Seminar: Listening by Design: Qualitative Research for Scholarship and Ministry
- APPL 729 - Seminar: Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
- APPL 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Applied Theology
- APPL 792 - Integrative Project
- APPL 793 - ThM Major Paper: Applied Theology
- APPL 797 - MA Thesis: Applied Theology
- APPL 798 - ThM Thesis: Applied Theology
- ARTS 530 - Devotional Poetry: John Donne, George Herbert, and Anne Bradstreet
- ARTS 534 - After Disenchantment
- ARTS 536 - The Arts, Empathy, and Spiritual Formation
- ARTS 543 - Worship in Polyrhythm
- ARTS 545 - The Galilean: Details of the Heart of Jesus
- ARTS 550 - Visual Art as Theology
- ARTS 578 - The Fifth Evangelist: The Sacred Repertoire of J.S. Bach
- ARTS 590 - The Art of Death and Theology of Hope
- ARTS 695 - This Sceptered Isle: A Poetic Journey into the Heart of England
- ARTS 701 - Seminar: Vocation of the Artist
- ARTS 790 - Comp Exam: X'ianity & Arts
- BIBL 501 - Old Testament Foundations
- BIBL 502 - New Testament Foundations
- BIBL 503 - Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation
- BIBL 506 - A Narrative Approach to the Gospels and Acts
- BIBL 516 - The Book of Joshua
- BIBL 520 - The Book of Exodus
- BIBL 521 - Ruth and Esther: God's Care in Times of Chaos
- BIBL 528 - The Sermon on the Mount
- BIBL 565 - Philippians: Finding Joyful Unity in a Fragmented Community
- BIBL 571 - Silent No More: Women Interpreters of the Bible
- BIBL 579 - Revelation
- BIBL 600 - Biblical Hermeneutics and Criticism
- BIBL 628 - Book of Isaiah
- BIBL 652 - The Gospel of Mark
- BIBL 664 - Colossians & Philemon
- BIBL 711 - Seminar: Divine Hospitality in the Old Testament
- BIBL 762 - New Testament Seminar: Reverberations of Scripture in the Gospels
- BIBL 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Old Testament
- BIBL 791 - MA Comprehensive Examination: New Testament
- BIBL 793 - ThM Major Paper: Old Testament
- BIBL 794 - ThM Major Paper: New Testament
- BIBL 796 - MA Thesis: Old Testament
- BIBL 797 - MA Thesis: New Testament
- BIBL 798 - ThM Thesis: Old Testament
- BIBL 799 - ThM Thesis: New Testament
- GENR 301 - MA/ThM Thesis Orientation
- GENR 303 - MA Thesis Continuation
- GENR 304 - ThM Thesis Continuation
- GENR 311 - Academic Writing
- GENR 313 - Intergative Project in the Arts and Theology Orientation
- HIST 500 - The Christian Spirit: A History of Christian Spirituality
- HIST 501 - History of Christianity I
- HIST 505 - The History of Christianity in Asia
- HIST 524 - The Early Church in Africa and Asia
- HIST 542 - After Acts: Patristics from the Apostles to Nicaea
- HIST 547 - History of Religion in America
- HIST 558 - Partaking of the Divine Nature: Salvation, Holiness, and the Doctrine of God
- HIST 587 - Spiritual Friendship
- HIST 762 - Spanish Mystics of the Golden Age: Ignatius, Teresa, and John of the Cross
- HIST 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: History
- HIST 793 - ThM Major Paper: Church History
- HIST 797 - MA Thesis: Church History
- HIST 798 - ThM Thesis: Church History
- INDS 521 - Smartphones, Surveillance, and Human Flourishing
- INDS 525 - Technology, Wilderness, and Creation
- INDS 529 - Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
- INDS 534 - After Disenchantment
- INDS 535 - Food: Creation, Community, and Communion
- INDS 546 - Welcoming the Stranger: Refugees in Christian Perspective
- INDS 551 - Healthcare and the Christian Life
- INDS 571 - Silent No More: Women Interpreters of the Bible
- INDS 574 - Not Yet in the Now: Waiting for the Apocalypse
- INDS 579 - Culture, Faith, and Mental Health
- INDS 581 - Christian Faith and Practice in a (Post)Modern World
- INDS 611 - Cultural Hermeneutics: Engaging with World with the Word
- INDS 729 - Seminar: Calling, Context, and the Church: From Belonging to Witness
- INDS 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Interdisciplinary Studies
- INDS 791 - Integrative Exam
- INDS 792 - Integrative Project
- INDS 793 - ThM Major Paper: Interdisciplinary Studies
- INDS 794 - MACS Integrative Exam
- INDS 795 - MA Integrative Project in the Arts and Theology
- INDS 797 - MA Thesis: Interdisciplinary Studies
- INDS 798 - ThM Thesis: Interdisciplinary Studies
- LANG 500 - Perspectives on Biblical Languages
- LANG 510 - Introductory Old Testament Hebrew I
- LANG 511 - Introductory Old Testament Hebrew II
- LANG 550 - Introduction to New Testament Greek I
- LANG 551 - Introduction to New Testament Greek II
- LANG 610 - Intermediate Old Testament Hebrew I
- LANG 650 - Intermediate New Testament Greek I
- LANG 720 - Advanced Greek Readings
- LANG 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Biblical Languages
- LANG 792 - LANG: Integrative Project
- LANG 793 - ThM Major Paper: Biblical Languages
- LANG 797 - MA Thesis: Biblical Languages
- LANG 798 - ThM Thesis: Biblical Languages
- MARK 540 - Working Blessedly: The Shape of Marketplace Theology
- MARK 544 - The Soul of Leadership: Developing the Spirituality of Influence
- MARK 562 - The Bible and Work: Going Deeper and Broader
- MARK 692 - Marketplace Field Work
- MARK 701 - Seminar: Working Sustainably
- SPIR 500 - The Christian Spirit: A History of Christian Spirituality
- SPIR 523 - Spiritual Disciplines in the Company of Others
- SPIR 536 - The Arts, Empathy, and Spiritual Formation
- SPIR 561 - Five Traditions & Practices of Prayer
- SPIR 586 - Spiritual Practice
- SPIR 587 - Spiritual Friendship
- SPIR 635 - Conversion & Transformation
- SPIR 762 - Spanish Mystics of the Golden Age: Ignatius, Teresa, and John of the Cross
- SPIR 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Spiritual Theology
- SPIR 793 - ThM Major Paper: Spiritual Theology
- SPIR 797 - MA Thesis: Spiritual Theology
- SPIR 798 - ThM Thesis: Spiritual Theology
- THEO 500 - Systematic Theology Overview
- THEO 501 - Christian Theology: An Introduction
- THEO 511 - The History of Heresy
- THEO 519 - Chinese Christian Thought
- THEO 526 - Postcolonial Theology
- THEO 542 - After Acts: Patristics from the Apostles to Nicaea
- THEO 550 - Visual Art as Theology
- THEO 558 - Partaking of the Divine Nature: Salvation, Holiness, and the Doctrine of God
- THEO 574 - Not Yet in the Now: Waiting for the Apocalypse
- THEO 602 - Theology II
- THEO 608 - History of Christian Doctrine
- THEO 631 - Participation in God: From Maximus to Aquinas
- THEO 635 - Conversion & Transformation
- THEO 651 - Anglican Life: Polity and Liturgy
- THEO 779 - Seminar: Theological Anthropology: Identities, Character and Power in Light of Christ and Scripture
- THEO 790 - MA Comprehensive Examination: Theology
- THEO 793 - ThM Major Paper: Theology
- THEO 797 - MA Thesis: Theology
- THEO 798 - ThM Thesis: Theology
- WRLD 505 - The History of Christianity in Asia
- WRLD 519 - Chinese Christian Thought
- WRLD 524 - The Early Church in Africa and Asia
- WRLD 526 - Postcolonial Theology
- WRLD 546 - Welcoming the Stranger: Refugees in Christian Perspective
- WRLD 690 - World Christianity Field Immersion
- WRLD 721 - Seminar: Listening by Design: Qualitative Research for Scholarship and Ministry
- WRLD 775 - Seminar: Majority World Spiritualities
- WRLD 790 - Comp Exam: World X'ianity
- WRLD 797 - MA Thesis: World Christianity