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PM 608 The Servant as Pastoral Care Giver

Stuart L. Palmer

Required Readings: Benner, David G. (1992) Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short-term Structure Model. Baker Book House: Grand Rapids, MI. Frederic, Harold. (1960) The Damnation of Theron Ware. Edited by Everett Carter. (Belknap Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts). Headley, Anthony J. (1999) Achieving Balance in Ministry. Beacon Hill Press: Kansas City, Mo. Kuenning, Delores. (1987) Helping People Through Grief. Bethany House: Minneapolis, MN. Nichols, Michael P. (1995) The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships. Guilford: New York, NY. Steinbron, Melvin J. (1997) The Lay Driven Church: How to Empower the People in Your Church to Share the Task of Ministry. Regal: Ventura, CA Steinke, Peter L. (1993) How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems. Alban Institute: New York, NY.
PM 654 Counseling Relations: Process and Skills

Stuart L. Palmer

REQUIRED READI GS Egan, G. (1997). The Skilled Helper, 6th ed., Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. Egan, G. (1994). Exercises in Helping Skills. 6th ed., Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.
NT 500 Concise Greek

William J. Patrick

Black, David Allen. It’s Still Greek to Me. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Cotterell, Peter and Max Turner. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. (London: S.P.C.K.; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1989). Douglas, J.D., ed. The ew Greek-English Interlinear ew Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993).
NT 500 Concise Greek

William J. Patrick

Required Texts Black, David Allen. It’s Still Greek to Me. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Cotterell, Peter and Max Turner. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. (London: S.P.C.K.; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1989). Douglas, J.D., ed. The ew Greek-English Interlinear ew Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993).
NT 530 The Gospel of Mark

William J. Patrick

Fall: A. Revised Standard Version. Any edition that gives an uncluttered text will do. NRSV can also be used. Also, the GNT can be used according to the level of one’s ability. B. Traina, Robert A. Methodical Bible Study. Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Francis Asbury Press, 1985. C. Bauer, David R. (ed.). Biblical Resources for Ministry. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1995.
IT 626 Advanced Video Production

Douglas Penix

Shyles, Leonard. Video Production Handbook. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
CS 740 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

Sources for Assigned Readings: Available from the Asbury Bookstore Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out. NY: Image, 1975. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God's Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994. Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Other readings are in Ethics of Hospitality Packet also available in bookstore
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

W. Thomas Pope

Required Texts: • Donald E. Demaray. Introduction to Homiletics (Revised) • Calvin Miller. Spirit, Word, and Story
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

W. Thomas Pope
NT 520 New Testament Introduction

Ruth Anne Reese

The New Testament (RSV or NRSV) Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1995. Jeffers, James. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999. Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Writings of the New Testament: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999. Malina, Bruce J. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster, 1993.
NT 632 Exegesis of General Epistles

Ruth Anne Reese

Required Reading: Hartin, Patrick J. A Spirituality of Perfection: Faith in Action in the Letter of James. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1999. Chester, Andrew and Ralph Martin. The Theology of the Letters of James, Peter, and Jude. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Articles on Reserve in the Library - 2 - Required to read but not to purchase (pick one for each epistle): James Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Letter of James. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1995. Martin, Ralph. James. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Word, 1988. I Peter Achtemeier, Paul. A Commentary on First Peter. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. Michaels, J Ramsey. 1 Peter. Word Biblical Commentary. Waco, TX: Word 1988.
OT 520 Old Testament Introduction

Sandra Richter

LaSor, Hubbard & Bush, Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form and Background of the OT, 2nd edition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996). James B. Pritchard, ed. The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Roland de Vaux, Ancient Israel Its Life and Institutions in the Biblical Resource Series (Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans/Livonia: Dove Book Sellers, 1997). Jon Levenson, Sinai & Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1985).
OT 604 Hebrew Readings

Sandra Richter

Books: The required and recommended texts are on reserve in the library or are in the library’s reference section. They are also available for purchase at the bookstore. Required BHS Rudolph, W. and H.P. Ruger, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1984. BDB Brown, Francis. The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1979. Lambdin/Seow EITHER Seow, C.L., A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995 OR Lambdin, Thomas O., Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971. Landes, George M. A Student’s Vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkeley, CA: BIBAL Press, 1987. Wurthwein, The Text of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979.
PM 740 Tutorial in Pastoral Ministry: Treating Addictive Disorders

George R. Ross

Ross, G.R. (1994). Treating adolescent substance abuse: Understanding the fundamental elements, Boston: Allyn & Bacon. McGee, R.S. (1985). The search for significance, Pasadena, TX: Robert S. McGee. McGee, R.S. & McCleskey, D. W. (1994) Conquering chemical dependency: A Christ-centered 12 step process, Roashville, TN: Lifeway Press. Weinberg, J.R. & Kosloske, D. (1977) Fourth step guide: Journey into growth, Minneapolis, MN: Comp Care Publishers.
NT 662 Exegesis of Philippians

Brian D. Russell

David Alan Black. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998 Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.
OT 501 Concise Hebrew

Brian D. Russell

Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. (BHS) Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford, 1907; reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979. (BDB) Chisholm, Robert. From Exegesis to Exposition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. (Chisholm)
PR 610 The Servant as Proclaimer

Lester Ruth

Fred Craddock, Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990). Henry H. Mitchell, Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990). Thomas H. Troeger, Imagining a Sermon (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990). On reserve: Charles L. Bartow, Effective Speech Communication in Leading Worship (Nashville: Abingdon, 1988).
WO 510 The Servant as Liturgist

Lester Ruth

Reading list: --General required: E. Byron Anderson, ed., Worship Matters, 2 vols. (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1999). (WMII and II) Authentic Worship in a Changing Culture (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1997). (AWCC) James F. White, Introduction to Christian Worship, rev. ed. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1992). (ICW) WO510 Syllabus, page 2 --B level: The general required reading plus the following: Rob L. Staples, Outward Sign and Inward Grace: The Place of Sacraments in Wesleyan Spirituality (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1991). John D. Witvliet, So You’ve Been Asked To…Lead a Worship Service (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1999). John D. Witvliet, So You’ve Been Asked To…Plan a Worship Service (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1999). And these articles in the course packet: Bradshaw, Paul F. Two Ways of Praying (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), pp. 13-28, 45-72. Bridge, Donald and David Phypers, The Water That Divides: The Baptism Debate (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1977), pp. 153-187. Collins, Dori Erwin and Scott C. Weidler. Sound Decisions: Evaluating Contemporary Music for Lutheran Worship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1997), 6-7. Hamilton, Michael S. “The Triumph of the Praise Songs: How Guitars Beat Out the Organ in the Worship Wars.” Christianity Today 43, 8 (July 12, 1999): 29-35. Lulofs, Roxane S. “Conflict in the Church: A Time to Confront and a Time to Compromise.” Worship Leader 9, 2 (March/April, 2000): 24-6. Ruth, Lester. “The Literature on Liturgical Inculturation as It Relates to the Issue of Worship in North America: An Initial Review.” Unpublished essay, 1999. Von Allmen, Jean-Jacques. “The Theological Meaning of Common Prayer.” Studia Liturgica 10, 3/4 (1974): 125-136. Webber, Robert E. Planning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old & ,ew (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998), pp. 13-49. --A level: The general required reading plus the B level reading plus the following: Marva Dawn, A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999). Gayle Carlton Felton, By Water and the Spirit: Making Connections for Identity & Ministry (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1997). Sally Morgenthaler, Worship Evangelism: Inviting Unbelievers into the Presence of God (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999). And four of these articles in the course packet: Jones, Cheslyn, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold, and Paul Bradshaw, eds. The Study of Liturgy. Revised edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 565-590. Lathrop, Gordon W. Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1999), pp. 49-71. Liesch, Barry. The ,ew Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House), pp. 61-85. Proctor-Smith, Marjorie. In Her Own Rite: Constructing Feminist Liturgical Tradition (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), pp. 13-35. Russell, Letty M. “Toward a Trinitarian Language of Hospitality.” The Living Pulpit 8, 2 (April-June 1999), 26-27. Von Allmen, Jean-Jacques. “A Short Theology of the Place of Worship.” Studia Liturgica 3, 3 (1964): 155-171. White, James F. Christian Worship in ,orth America (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1997), pp. 103- 134.
PM 731 Practicum Seminar

Carol B. Saenger

1. Reading Component (on sight supervisor) 500 pages of reading is required in books, articles, etc. related to the areas of counseling. This may include the selection of material on a specific area or aspect related to the student’s practicum setting.
DO 501 Basic Christian Theology

Stephen A. Seamands

Thomas Oden, The Living God The Word of Life Life in the Spirit David Smith, A Handbook of Contemporary Theology
DO 670 The Christian Doctrine of Holiness

Stephen A. Seamands

William Greathouse, WHOLENESS IN CHRIST Melvin Dieter, FIVE VIEWS OF SANCTIFICATION Leona Frances Choy, POWERLINES
DO 720 Theology of Karl Barth

Stephen A. Seamands

Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man Dogmatics in Outline Clifford Green, Karl Barth: Theologian of Freedom
DO 770 United Methodist Theology

Stephen A. Seamands

William Abraham, Waking from Doctrinal Amnesia Ted Campbell, Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials Thomas Langford, Practical Divinity, vol 1. Thomas Schmidt, Straight and arrow: Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate
MI 600 History of the Christian Movement

Howard A. Snyder

Anderson, Gerald H., Robert T. Coote, Norman A. Horner, and James M. Phillips, eds. Mission Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement. Orbis, 1994. 654 pp. BV3700.M55. Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1986. 478 pp. BV2100.N4 1986. Tucker, Ruth A. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. 511 pp. BV3700.T83. Mission Frontiers (April, 2000) will also be used as a resource because of several articles it contains. Free copies will be distributed early in the semester.
MI 600 History of the Christian Movement

Howard A. Snyder

Anderson, Gerald H., Robert T. Coote, Norman A. Horner, and James M. Phillips, eds. Mission Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement. Orbis, 1994. 654 pp. BV3700.M55. Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1986. 478 pp. BV2100.N4 1986. Tucker, Ruth A. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. 511 pp. BV3700.T83. Mission Frontiers (April, 2000)