Schreiter Institute

Reconciliation, restorative justice, and spirituality are big topics that are often misunderstood even among those who share similar beliefs, creeds, and communities. The Schreiter Institute supports research, teaching, and events across a variety of disciplines that engage issues of social healing, peacemaking, and trauma-informed praxis.

Human beings are messy. We are vulnerable creatures and our societies reproduce our own brokenness on a larger scale. This certificate in Reconciliation and Restorative Justice is designed to equip students from a variety of professional backgrounds in the art of social healing. It utilizes resources from global Catholicism to teach students ways to recognize and to mend the varieties of brokenness they encounter both locally and globally.

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Overview

The 18-credit hour Certificate in Reconciliation and Restorative Justice is especially helpful for those who want a theological and spiritual lens for recognizing and understanding social wounds and participating in social and interpersonal healing. It can be helpful for social workers and mental health professionals as well as those involved in ministries in prisons, hospitals, youth development, peace, justice, and advocacy.

Requirements

• DC4330: Reconciliation: A Praxis of Salvation OR DE4350/5350 Reconciliation and Ethics
• DC4020/5020: Reconciling Narratives: Racialization and the Theology of Robert Schreiter
• DS5101 God and the Mystery of Human Suffering OR BD5510 Feminist Hermeneutics in Bible and Theology OR DE4204/5205 Women in Theology and Ethics OR another class agreed upon with advisor
• C4700: Praxis for Intercultural Transformation
• M4211B Ministry Practicum (6 hours). Must be focused on Reconciliation and/or Restorative Justice. NOTE: MP 3000 is Prerequisite.

The courses taken for this certificate are graduate level courses and can be applied to the MA, MAPS or MDiv degrees. Through CTU Distance Education, this certificate may also be completed partially or completely online.

Questions? Contact Kevin Considine at kconsidine@ctu.edu

Kevin Considine holds a PhD in Theology from Loyola University Chicago. His scholarship explores interpersonal and social reconciliation through understanding and participating in God’s work of healing the wounds of the “sinned-against” and the wounds of moral injury of wrongdoers through intercultural perspectives. He has ministry experience in accompanying those afflicted by trauma and moral injury, the struggle for racial justice, and building community partnerships for the work of justice, mercy, and healing.

Rev. Dr. Robert J. Schreiter, CPPS (1947-2021) was a priest with the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of Reconciliation and Peacemaking along with Inculturation and Intercultural Theology. He also was a protégé of Flemish-Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P. and an internationally recognized expert on the works of Schillebeeckx.

The Precious Blood Spirituality Institute was established in 2021 through a partnership with religious institutes devoted to the Precious Blood of Jesus: The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, The Sisters of the Precious Blood, The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, and the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Our mission is rooted in the Precious Blood of Jesus, the saving blood that recognizes the dignity of God’s mercy found within every human person. The paradox of the blood of Christ, shed to give life to others, is the spiritual foundation for our work of justice and reconciliation.