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NT 502 Comprehensive Greek II

Brad Johnson

Bauer, et al. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. (BDAG) Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. (ISGM) Black, David Alan. Learning to Read New Testament Greek, rev. ed. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994. (LRNTG)
NT 502 Comprehensive Greek II

Brad Johnson

Course Description The second of a two-course sequence designed to introduce all aspects of New Testament Greek—e.g., noun declensions, the verb system, grammar, syntax, and structure. Persons successfully completing NT501 and NT502 should be able to work comfortably with the basic Greek of the New Testament text. Prerequiste: NT501.
CD 552 Adult Education Seminar

Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

Designing an Older Adult Ministry by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr. (Discipleship Resources, 1999) The Graying of the Church: A Leader’s Guide to Older Adult Ministry in The United Methodist Church by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr. (Discipleship Resources, 2004) Building a Ministry for Homebound and Nursing Home Residents by Marie White Webb (Discipleship Resources, 2003) Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging by Kathleen Fischer (Upper Room Books, 1998)
CD 560 The Ministry of Teaching

Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

Barbara Bruce, Our Spiritual Brain. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-687- 09266-3 Joseph Lowman, Mastering The Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc. 1995. ISBN 0-7879-0127-X. Marlene D. LeFever, Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave You to Teach. Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, 1995. ISBN: 0-7814-5117-5 Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching as a Sacramental Act. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-8298-1647-X Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0-7879-1058-9 Robert Pazmino, Basics of Teaching for Christians. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. ISBN: 0-8010-2173-1 Susan Shaw, Storytelling in Religious Education. Birmingham: Religious Education Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-89135-111-6
CD 651 Professional Foundations of Christian Education

Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

A History of Christian Education by James E. Reed and Ronnie Prevost. Sourcebook of the Christian Faith: Primary source readings from the history of Christian education(latest edition), edited by Robert F. Lay, Taylor University. This is a book of primary documents. Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless Religious Education in the African American Tradition: A Comprehensive Introduction by Kenneth H. Hill
MM 711 712 Senior Closure

Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

Course Catalog Description: A senior reflection group that considers continued ministry experiences at the same ministry site; an assigned case study; and issues unique to the transition from seminary to full-time ministry (resume, interviews, finances, time management, accountability, conflict, etc.). “Theology of Ministry” paper serves as the main tool in pulling together seminary learning and ministry experience.
IS 502 Vocation of Ministry

Reginald Johnson

Beck, James R. & Blomberg, Craig L. (2001). Two Views on Women in Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. ISBN# 0310231957 Barton, Ruth H. (2006). Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN# 0830833331 Grenz, S. & Bell, R. (1995). Betrayal of Trust: Sexual Misconduct in the Pastorate. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN# 083081857x Guiness, O. (1998). The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. Waco,TX: Word. ISBN# 0849944376 Willard, Dallas. (1999). Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN# 083082226 Sire, J. (2000). Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN#0830822739 Wesley, J. (1977/1777). A Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press. ISBN# 0834101580
SF 501 Introduction to Spiritual Formation

Reginald Johnson

Course Description: A survey that examines the theological and practical dimensions of the spiritual life. Lectures, class discussions and small-group disciplines are used. Students are encouraged to enrich their own personal spiritual life and are given guidelines for engaging in a ministry of spiritual formation in the local church.
NT 500 Concise Greek

Abson Predestin Joseph

Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993) Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998).
NT 500 Concise Greek

Abson Predestin Joseph

Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993) NT500 Course Packet
MM 601 MM 601 Mentored Ministry Section: Florida O1

Greg D. Kannon

Important Information (1) Before you start the semester, your mentor must be approved and trained by the Mentored Ministry Office. The next training day is August 19,2007. Please notify your mentor of the training date and give us his/her name, address and phone so we can contact with an invitation. (2) This calendar is the semester-planning guide for the course. As we update it during the Campus Reflection Group, all changes become part of the “official” schedule for which you are responsible. Details for the Class are found in the MM601/602 Handbook. (3) You will complete a minimum of eight (8) hours work, per week, at your ministry Placement. (4) Please read the MM Handbook carefully as you will responsible for its content.
CD 615 Discipleship Development in the Home

Chris Kiesling

Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick, The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1999. Larry Crabb, Connecting: A Radical New Vision. Nashville: Word, 1997. Marjorie Thompson, Family: The Forming Center. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996. Donald Joy, Empower Your Kids to be Adults. Nappanee: Indiana, 2000. Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage. Multnomah Press. 1985. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.). Dennis Kinlaw, Sacred Pedagogy. (booklet from Francis Asbury Press). Dick Hardell and Merton Strommen, Youth and Family Ministry: Four Imperatives: A Conceptual Model. Youth and Family Institute – www.youthandfamilyinstitute.org.
CD 616 Discipleship and Development in Young and Middle Adulthood

Chris Kiesling

Carol Hoare, Erikson on Development in Adulthood. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions. San Francisco: Harper, 1990. (217 pages) Jeffrey Arnett, Emerging Adulthood. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. Charles Shedd, Transitions through Adulthood. Madeline L’Engel’s A Live Coal in the Sea.San Francisco, Harper, 1951. Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rythms. Downers Grove, Intervarsity Press, 2006.
CM 510 Foundations of Campus Ministry (reading list)

Chris Kiesling

Students who are following a vocational calling into campus ministry are encouraged to pursue the Master’s of Divinity degree. This course serves as one of four core electives meeting the Servant Ministry requirement in the Mdiv degree. The four CD courses meeting this requirement focus on a students’ projected ministerial role: CD 510 for Christian Educators; CD 511 for Pastors; CM 510 for Campus Ministers; and YM 510 for Youth Ministers. Thus the catalogue description for this course reads: CM 510 provides orientation and immersion into research-based understandings of young adult development and spiritual formation, and explores effective ministry approaches for the college/university student. This course is designed for the recent college/university graduate who is exploring a career in campus ministry. (Note: an additional campus ministry course is being developed for 2008-2009 that will likely bear the title Campus Ministry Foundations II. This course will explore more fully issues of fundraising, understanding academic culture, board deployment and developmental perspectives on young adulthood and mentoring. However, most of these topics will be touched on in an introductory way in this course.)
PR 610 The Theology and Practice of Preaching

Charles D. Killian

Donald Demaray: AN INTRODUCTION TO HOMILETICS and Fred Craddock: PREACHING.
PR 703 Storytelling

Charles D. Killian

1. We will commence class on Monday at 9 a.m.; finish by noon on Friday. 2. Bring with you three discardable magazines for the collage that we will do on Mon. 3. I will supply you with crayons, scissors, paste, and poster board. 4. Write a three page fairy tale that will be read in class; and make copies for each member of the class. You may want to wait until you get to class (we will read them on Thurs) and write them. Remember, in fairy tales, anything can happen. Please. DO NOT READ A BOOK on how to write a fairy tale. Just write it by beginning with, "...once upon a time...." and the rest will flow. Trust me on this. 5. Collateral reading may include novels, plays, movies, cd's and cassettes, anything that relates to the genre of storytelling and preaching; orality, narrativity. A selected bibliography is listed below. 6. Find three to five stories that you think are good and make them available to the class. If they are lengthy, summarize and give citation where they might be found. I want each student to leave the class with at least 25 stories (most of which you will never have heard). 7. I would like for you to do one book review (2-3 pages) and answer this question: "Having read this book, so what?" 8. Following the class, a paper will be due--My Theology of Storytelling. It will be due the week following class. 9. You will tell two stories in class: my favorite story (5-10 minutes.) It can be serious, funny, personal experience, biblical, extra biblical. We are interested in the 'telling'. You will also bring a children's story/sermon, 3-5 minutes in length. 10. Course evaluation: written work 40%; oral work 50%; book review 10% 11. Get plenty of rest. You must be prepared to give full attention to the dynamics of the course for the week. It promises to be a great time. See you in July or August. Peace. Chuck 1810 Lisburn Court. Garner, NC 27529 (919) 538 2855
CL 552 The Wesleyan Church Polity and Discipline

Kerry D. Kind

Barnwell, Ray E., Sr., ed., Connecting to Christ: Belonging (Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2002) [$8.99 paperback, Item #BKB910] The Discipline of The Wesleyan Church⎯2004 edition (Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2005) [$5.99 paperback, Item #BKB482; $8.99 hardcover, Item #BKB283] Haines, Lee M. and Thomas, Paul William, eds., An Outline History of The Wesleyan Church, sixth rev. ed. (Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2001) [$12.99 paperback, Item #BKB448]
CH 600 History of Methodism

Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Kinghorn, Kenneth, The Heritage of American Methodism, Lexingtron: Emeth Press, 2008. Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. Those students who have read either of these books can arrange to read alternate materials.
CH 600 History of Methodism

Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Kinghorn, Kenneth, The Heritage of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. Those students who have read either of these books can arrange to read alternate materials.
PH 501 Philosophy of Christian Religion

Kevin Paul Kinghorn

(1) Hasker, William. Metaphysics. (Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1983). (2) Peterson, Michael, ed. Reason and Religious Belief. 3rd edition. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) (3) Peterson, Michael, ed. Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. 3rd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
PH 701 Faith, Reason, and Christian Belief

Kevin Paul Kinghorn

Broadly speaking, our goal will be to become more effective ministers for the kingdom of God. Part of one's being an effective minister clearly includes being on firm ground oneself as to what one believes. One of the goals for our studies within PH701 will be to gain insight into the extent to which we can, and should, use reason to gain a deeper personal understanding of the God we embrace. Another part of effective ministry for the kingdom involves being able to address the concerns of those in the modern world who do not embrace Jesus Christ as Lord. This involves understanding the extent to which we can, and should, appeal to reason in offering a Christian apologetic to non-Christians that makes sense to them. One of our goals this semester will be to gain a deeper understanding of the kind of answer we as Christians are called to provide as we seek to fulfil the Biblical imperative to provide "an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have" (1Peter 3:15). Given that Asbury is a seminary in the Wesleyan tradition, we will also keep an eye toward better understanding how our own Christian background (predominantly, I presume, as Wesleyans) fits into the larger Christian tradition. Such understanding will better allow us to distinguish a non-Christian perspective from a Christian, non- Wesleyan perspective. And this is an important distinction to be able to make whenever we come across a theological idea that seems a bit foreign to us.
PH 705 Ethical Theory and Christian Moral Frameworks

Kevin Paul Kinghorn

(1) A Companion to Ethics, ed. Peter Singer (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.) (2) Reading Packet (available from ATS bookstore)
CH 600 XL Methodist History

William Kostlevy

This is a survey of the emergence and spread of Methodism beginning with the career of John Wesley. Special emphasis will be placed on the planting and progress of the movement in America leading to Methodism today. This course meets a denominational requirement with for all candidates for the United Methodist ministry.
CH 600 XL Methodist History

William Kostlevy

This is a survey of the emergence and spread of Methodism beginning with the career of John Wesley. Special emphasis will be placed on the planting and progress of the movement in America leading to Methodism today. This course meets a denominational requirement with for all candidates for the United Methodist ministry.
CH 600 XL Methodist History

William Kostlevy

This is a survey of the emergence and spread of Methodism beginning with the career of John Wesley. Special emphasis will be placed on the planting and progress of the movement in America leading to Methodism today. This course meets a denominational requirement with for all candidates for the United Methodist ministry.