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YM 632 The Life of the Youth Pastor

James Hampton

This course will explore principles of organization for the Youth Pastor; the relationship of personality to leadership styles and practices that form the Youth Pastor. This course assumes that the practice of youth ministry and spirituality are intimately related. (Catalog statement)
YM 632 The Life of the Youth Pastor

James Hampton

Jones, Tony. Soul Shaper. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. 227 pages MacDonald, Gordon. Ordering Your Private World. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002. 231 pages Miller, Donald. Blue Like Jazz. Thomas Nelson, 2003. 256 pages Peterson, Eugene. Under the Unpredictable Plant. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. 197 pages Prime, Derek, and Beggs, Allistair. On Being a Pastor: Understanding Our Calling and Work. Moody Publishers, 2006. 320 pages. (This text only required if taking class for 3 hours) Trull, Joe E. and Carter, James E. Ministerial Ethics (second edition). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004. 214 pages.
YM 632 X The Life of the Youth Pastor

James Hampton

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore principles of organization for the Youth Pastor; the relationship of personality to leadership styles and practices that form the Youth Pastor. This course assumes that the practice of youth ministry and spirituality are intimately related. (Catalog statement)PLACE OF COURSE IN THE CURRICULUM: This is a required class for all MAYM majors and is open to any other student as well.
YM 670 Postmodern Youth Ministry

James Hampton

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores the dynamics of living in a postmodern culture and its attendant impact on the church and its ministry to adolescents. The focus is on developing a theology of youth ministry which takes seriously the unique needs of postmodern students, and then look at how that theology should culminate in specific practices of ministry to youth. Special attention is given to the fact that we are living “between worlds” and how our ministries need to become bi-lingual, speaking both the language of faith and the language of culture. (Catalog statement) This is an elective course and is open to any student who has taken either CD 510, CM 510 or YM 510 or with permission of the instructor.
DO 690 John Wesley's Theology for Today

Steve Harper

Course Description The course will focus upon the distinctive theological contributions of John Wesley for the larger Christian community and for the Wesleyan family. Attention will be given to the roots of Wesley’s theology, but the emphasis will be upon the value of the Wesleyan theological perspective for today.
IS 502 Vocation of Ministry

Steve Harper

Course Description This course addresses the question, How is a vocation to Christian ministry discerned, shaped, and sustained? The purpose of the course is to explore the foundations for Christian vocation by examining the connection between a call to ministry and the formation of persons for ministry. The integrating theological concept is the Wesleyan view of Holiness. The course focuses on the vocation of ordained ministry, but the principles are applicable to the whole people of God.
SF 501 Introduction to Spiritual Formation

Steve Harper

Introduction This course surveys the subject of Christian spirituality, with an emphasis upon the theological and developmental dimensions of the spiritual life. Preparatory readings and in-class presentations by Dr. Harper set forth the basic content of the course, personal and group reflections particularize the course, and additional reading, research, and ministry projects help to maximize your learning goals.
SF 511 Praying All Ways

Steve Harper

Introduction This course completes the examination of John Wesley’s phrase “read and pray daily.” Building on a biblical and historical foundation, students will explore personal and corporate prayer through exposure to individual prayer styles and congregational prayer ministries.
CH 610 The English Reformation

William P. Haugaard

The purpose of the course is to enable students to become familiar with and/or to deepen their understanding of the changing life of Christianity in England from 1500 to 1611. In those years the English Church built on its earlier eleven centuries and drew from continental currents of renewal and reform shaping Christian faith and practice in the distinctive ways that a later age was to call “anglicanism” Those identifying themselves today as Anglicans are not the only Christians who partake of this sixteenth-century heritage. It also belongs to those whose English forbears unsuccessfully struggled to demand the precise patterns of continental Reformed churches. It belongs to Methodists who separated from the national church two centuries later. Although the course concentrates on religious and ecclesiastical affairs, these, as always in studies of church history, cannot be understood apart from their deep involvement with the political, economic, and cultural concerns of British society. The course will be divided into three main topical rather than chronological sections -- with a preliminary consideration of the earlier years of the English church in the initial week: I. Continuity and change through four monarchs II. Authority and ministry in a unitive society of nation and church III. Catholic and Protestant worship and teaching in the English Church A summary of the principal sixteenth century events and issues in the formation and development of a distinctive tradition will be found in William P. Haugaard, "The History of Anglicanism: From the Reformation to the Eighteenth Century" in The Study of Anglicanism (rev. edn., ed. Stephen Sykes, John Booty, & Jonathan Knight [Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998]). A reading of the first half (pp. 3-18) of this essay will provide a rapid birds-eye view of the course.
CL 612XL Christian Leadership Development

MaryAnn Hawkins

This course is designed to move students into deeper levels of understanding of the significant concepts and theories that shape our contemporary understanding of leadership development in a Christian context. From this base of understanding, students will be guided into discoveries of personal individual styles, strengths, and opportunities for growth in an effort to enhance personal leadership competencies with a deliberate servanthood focus.
CO 515 Forgiveness in the Counseling Process

Virginia Todd Holeman

Enright, R. D. (2001). Forgiveness is a choice: A step-by-step process for resolving anger and restoring hope. Washington, DC:American Psychological Association. Holeman, V. T. (2004). Reconcilable differences: Hope and healing for troubled marriages. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Jones, G. (1995). Embodying forgiveness. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. Nowuen, H. J.M. (1992). The return of the prodigal son. New York: Image Books. Volf, M. (1996). Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. Worthington, E.L. (2003). Forgiving and reconciling: Bridges to wholeness and hope. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
CO 515 Forgiveness in the Counseling Process

Virginia Todd Holeman

Enright, R. D. (2001). Forgiveness is a choice: A step-by-step process for resolving anger and restoring hope. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Holeman, V. T. (2004). Reconcilable differences: Hope and healing for troubled marriages. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Jones, G. (1995). Embodying forgiveness. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. Nouwen, H. J.M. (1992). The return of the prodigal son. New York: Image Books. Worthington, E.L. (2003). Forgiving and reconciling: Bridges to wholeness and hope. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Wright, N. T. (2006). Evil and the justice of God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
CO 515 Forgiveness in the Counseling Process

Virginia Todd Holeman

Course Description: This course explores the theological, psychological, and clinical components of forgiveness and reconciliation. Interpersonal and intrapersonal elements of forgiveness receive particular emphasis. Procedures for implementing forgiveness in pastoral and clinical counseling settings are reviewed.
CO 515 Forgiveness in the Counseling Process

Virginia Todd Holeman

Course Description: This course explores the theological, psychological, and clinical components of forgiveness and reconciliation. Interpersonal and intrapersonal elements of forgiveness receive particular emphasis. Procedures for implementing forgiveness in pastoral and clinical counseling settings are reviewed.
CO 602 Theoretical Approaches to Assessment and Treatment Planning

Virginia Todd Holeman

CO602: Theoretical Approaches to Assessment and Treatment Planning Counseling as Advocacy for Social Justice Virginia T. Holeman FA08
CO 603 Orientation to Christian Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

Virginia Todd Holeman

Entwistle, D. (2004). Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity: An introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations, and models of integration. Wipf & Stock Pub. ISBN: 159-244-7996
CO 604 Using Diagnostic Information to Facilitate Treatment Planning

Virginia Todd Holeman

Seligman, Linda (2004) Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling (3rd Edition). Springer. ISBN: 0306484722
CO 660 Crisis Counseling

Virginia Todd Holeman

Dass-Brailsford, P. (2007). A practical guide to trauma: Empowering interventions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: BasicBooks. Janoff-Bulman, R. (1992). Shattered assumptions: Towards a new psychology of trauma. New York, NY: The Free Press. Myer, R. A. (2001). Assessment for crisis intervention. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Volf, M. (2006). The end of memory: Remembering rightly in a violent world. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
CO 670 Marriage and Family Therapy

Virginia Todd Holeman

Family systems theory provides a course framework for exploring marital and familial issues. Special emphasis is given to the role of the counselor. Procedures and techniques for both preventative and remedial interventions are investigated. This course will introduce the basic concepts in marriage and family therapy to you, and equip you with basic systemic counseling skills. We will give special emphasis to theological and biblical foundations for marriage and family processes. To quote Clark Pinnock: “Theologians and scientists both exegete God’s world, which we have been given to study and appreciate.” (Flame of Love, p. 65) The particular part of God’s world that we want to exegete is the world of family relationships. To that end, we will be focusing on the relational truths of Scripture and the relational reality of marriages and families. Family systems theory, or systemic thinking, will give us valuable tools for this “exegesis.”
BT 605 X1 Old Testament Theology

Tom Holsinger-Friesen

“Considers representative theological themes and their historical development in the Old Testament employing methodology of the contemporary biblical theology discipline. Prerequisites: OT520, NT(IBS)510 or 511.”
OT 520 Old Testament Introduction

Edwin C. Hostetter

Bernhard W. Anderson, Contours of Old Testament Theology, with the assistance of Steven Bishop (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999) John J. Collins, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay, Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner's Handbook, 3d ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) Paul R. House, Old Testament Survey (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1992)
ME 830 Seminar in Evangelization: Applied Rhetorical Theory

George G. Hunter

Course Description “Understanding ‘Rhetoric’ as the study of (very) effective discourse, oral and written, this seminar draws from primary and secondary sources to reflect from the entire twenty-five centuries of the struggle to understand and inform influential speaking and writing, with a view to informing emergent forms of the public communication of Christianity’s message.”
MS 645 AND MB 720 Cross Cultural Communication of Christianity

George G. Hunter

"Studies in the literature of Intercultural communication, with attention to understanding cultural contexts and barriers, with applications to Christian ministry and witness across, and within, cultures."
PH 501 Philosophy of Christian Religion

George Ille

Aristotle, Categories, Section I. Translated by E. M. Edghill; Provided by The Internet Classics Archive. Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/categories.html Hasker, William, Metaphysics, Downers Grove, IVP, 1983. Murphy, Nancey, Beyond Fundamentalism and Liberalism. How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda, Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1996. Nagel, Thomas, What does it all mean? A very short introduction to Philosophy New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. Peterson Michael, Hasker, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings (New York: Oxford University, Press, 1996). - selections Peterson Michael, Hasker, Reason and Religious Belief, New York: Oxford University, Press, 1998. - selections Ricoeur, Paul, Figuring the Sacred, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. - selections (pp. 35-47; 249-261; 292-302.) Ricoeur, Paul, Freedom in the Light of Hope, in Essays on Biblical Interpretation, Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1980. (pp. 155-182). Available at http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1941&C=1774
ST 501 Method and Praxis in Theology

George Ille

Larry Wood, God and History, EmethPublisher.Com Larry Wood, Theology as History and Hermeneutics , EmethPublisher.Com Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson, Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God, (Downers Grove: IVP, 1996). Stanley J. Grenz & Roger E. Olson, 20th Century Theology, (Carlisle, Patternoster Press, 1991) Stanley J. Grenz & John R. Franke, Beyond Foundationalism. Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001). George Ille, Hermeneutical Explorations of Agency as Prolegomena for a Theological Epistemology, PhD Thesis, King’s College, University of London, 2000) (selections provided in digital format). Nancey Murphy, Beyond Fundamentalism and Liberalism. How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda, (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1996). Donald Thorsen, The Wesleyan Quadrilateral (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990), pp. 125-225. Paul Ricoeur, Toward a Hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation (in Essays on Biblical Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980)); (available in digital format at http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=1941)