Christian Scharen
Assistant Professor of Worship and Theology  

Email: cscharen001@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/cscharen Office: (651) 641-3459    Office: NW 320F

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
IC 2610	WORSHIP	Summer Session 2009-2010
EL 1515 F6	EDUCATION I	Spring Semester 2009-2010
HC 4352 F6	WORSHIP IN THE EARLY CHURCH	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 1615 33 50 F6	READING THE AUDIENCES-ONLINE (CONT)	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610	WORSHIP	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L1	LAB 1	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L2	LAB 2	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L3	LAB 3	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L4	LAB 4	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L5	LAB 5	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L6	LAB 6	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 1615 33	READING THE AUDIENCES-INTENSIVE	January Term 2009-2010
EL 3518 F6	THE CONGREGATION AS CONFIRMING COMM	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610	WORSHIP	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L1	LAB 1	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L2	LAB 2	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L3	LAB 3	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L4	LAB 4	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L5	LAB 5	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610 L6	LAB 6	Fall Semester 2009-2010
PR 3530	PREACHING & WORSHIP FOR GOD'S MISS	Fall Semester 2009-2010
PR 3530 L5	LAB 5	Fall Semester 2009-2010
WO 4515 F6	CONTEMPORARY & ALTERNATIVE WORSHIP	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2610	WORSHIP	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L1	LAB 1	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L2	LAB 2	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L3	LAB 3	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L4	LAB 4	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L5	LAB 5	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L6	LAB 6	Spring Semester 2008-2009
ST 3438 S6	ETHICS II:WORSHIP & ETHICS: POLITIC	Spring Semester 2008-2009
WO 4560 S6	WORSHIP & ETHICS: SEE ST3438-S6	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610	WORSHIP	Fall Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L1	LAB 1	Fall Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L2	LAB 2	Fall Semester 2008-2009
IC 2610 L3	LAB 3	Fall Semester 2008-2009
PR 3530	PREACHING & WORSHIP FOR GOD'S MISS	Fall Semester 2008-2009
PR 3530 L1	LAB 1	Fall Semester 2008-2009
PR 3530 LB 10	LAB 10	Fall Semester 2008-2009
ST 3438 S6	ETHICS II:WOR/ETHICS: CANCELED10/27	Fall Semester 2008-2009
WO 4560 S6	WORSHIP & ETHICS: CANCELED 10.27.08	Fall Semester 2008-2009

Christian Scharen is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics. For other faculty and staff resources, visit our Online Resource Guide

• Faith and Popular Culture (esp. Music)
• Faith as a Way of Life
• Faith in a Secular Age
• Human Sexuality: Marriage and Debates over Gay Marriage in Church and Society
• Streams of Innovation in Worship
• The Citizenship Formed in Worship

Christian Scharen joined the Luther Seminary faculty as assistant professor of Worship in 2008. He spent the four years prior as Director of the Faith as a Way of Life Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Assistant Professor of Congregational Studies and Practical Theology (Adjunct) [more...]

"Attending to contemporary culture seems to me at the heart of faithful and effective ministry today."

Feedback from fellow college and seminary students led Christian Scharen to a career in teaching. They affirmed his ability to take complex ideas and break them down to understandable [more...]

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