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MS 614 Ethnicity, Race, and the Church

Steven Ybarrola

Course Description: This course is a cross-cultural, comparative study of the causes of both ethnic/racial conflict and cooperation. Various theories of ethnic conflict/cooperation will be examined using case studies from different parts of the world. A key focus of the course will be on how the complex issues related to ethnicity and race should be considered in the context of missions and evangelism.
CL 553 X1 United Methodist Polity and Discipline

S. Brian Yeich

The purpose of this class is to provide a thorough study of the polity and discipline of The United Methodist Church. This class, along with DO 690, CH 600, and DO 670, helps participants meet the requirements for United Methodist ordained ministry.
CL 553 X1 United Methodist Polity and Discipline

S. Brian Yeich

The purpose of this class is to provide a thorough study of the polity and discipline of The United Methodist Church. This class, along with DO 690, CH 600, and DO 670, helps participants meet the requirements for United Methodist ordained ministry.
MM 601 Mentored Ministry

S. Brian Yeich

• Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeshel (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah), 2006. • Mentored Ministry Handbook: MM 601/602: (available as a pdf in Moodle (the virtual classroom)) • Mentored Ministry Forms: (MM601 Forms.pdf & MM601 E-Forms located in Moodle)
MM 601 Mentored Ministry

S. Brian Yeich

Welcome to MM601 - Mentored Ministry: Inside the Walls! I look forward to this journey with you as you engage this ministry experience. I hope that this opportunity will prove to be more than a class and that you will see God working through you in ways you never expected. I pray that God will bless you as you take this and many other steps toward your future ministry. I want to be available to help you in any way I can. The best way to reach me is via email. So if you have a need, email me right away. You are also welcome to call. My office number is (859) 858-2050 extension 2610. Mentored Ministry is comprised of two main components: 1. Field experience 2. Theological reflection in a reflection seminar. Relative to the Field Experience component, each of you will have a field placement in a local church or ministry setting in which you will practice “hands-on” ministry. You will minister for at least eight hours a week for the duration of the semester under the supervision and mentoring of a qualified minister. In addition to the eight hours of ministry involvement there should be a one-hour one-on-one meeting with your mentor. Relative to the Reflection Seminar component, each member of the class, being led by a Reflection Group Facilitator, will reflect together theologically on your ministry experiences using your own self-referent case studies.
MM 601 Mentored Ministry

S. Brian Yeich

• Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeshel (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah), 2006. • Mentored Ministry Handbook: MM 601/602: (available as a pdf in Moodle (the virtual classroom)) • Mentored Ministry Forms: (MM601 Forms.pdf & MM601 E-Forms located in Moodle)
MM 602 Mentored Ministry

S. Brian Yeich

Churches That Make a Difference by Sider, Olson, and Unruh (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002). Mentored Ministry Handbook: MM 601/602: (available as a pdf in Moodle) Mentored Ministry Forms: (MM602 Forms.pdf & MM602 E-Forms located in Moodle)
CD 552 Discipleship and Missions: Preparing People to Serve Locally and Globally

Julie Broderson

Required Texts 1. Short-term Missions Workbook: from Mission Tourists to Global Citizens, (2003). Tim Dearborn. IVP 2. The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip, ( 1998). David C. Forward. Moody. 3. GO and Make Disciples! An Introduction to Christian Missions. (1999). Roger S. Greenway. P & R Publishing Co.
CD 552 Discipleship and Missions: Preparing People to Serve Locally and Globally

Julie Broderson

Required Texts 1. Short-term Missions Workbook: from Mission Tourists to Global Citizens, (2003). Tim Dearborn. IVP 2. The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip, ( 1998). David C. Forward. Moody. 3. GO and Make Disciples! An Introduction to Christian Missions. (1999). Roger S. Greenway. P & R Publishing Co.
CH 500 Turning Points in Church History

Thomas N. Buchan

Required Textbooks J. Gonzalez, Church History: An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996). ISBN-10: 0687016118 / ISBN-13: 978-0687016112 J. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: Volume One: The Early Church to the Reformation (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1984). ISBN-10: 0060633158 / ISBN-13: 978-0060633158 J. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: Volume Two: The Reformation to the Present Day (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1985). ISBN-10: 0060633166 / ISBN-13: 978-0060633165 M. Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000). ISBN-10: 080106211X / ISBN-13: 978-0801062117
CL 553 United Methodist Polity and Discipline

Robert Bushong

Required Texts The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, 2004 The Book of Resolutions of the United Methodist Church, 2004 Thomas Edward Frank, Polity, Practice, and the Mission of the United Methodist Church, Updated Edition *Henri Nouwen, Can You Drink the Cup? William Willimon, Calling and Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life
CH 500 Turning Points in Church History

Meesaeng Lee Choi

REQUIRED TEXTS: Noll, Mark A. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2000. Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999. St. Athanasius. On the Incarnation. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000. St. Benedict. The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry. Liturgical Press, Hattaway, Paul and als. Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission. Gabriel Publishing, 2003. CH500 Course Packet (ATS bookstore) Selected primary source and additional readings cited under each lesson (see the “Course and Reading Schedule” below) are available at CH500/Course Center.
CH 502 Church History II

Meesaeng Lee Choi

REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity: The Reformation to the Present Day, vol. 2. San Francisco: Harper/Collins Publishers, 1985. (390p) 2. Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform. InterVarsity Press, 1999 (Beginning from Part VII, 369-613). (240p) 3. Noll, Mark A., ed. Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991. (200p) 4. Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002. (70p) 5. Course Packet
CH 501 Church History I

Kenneth J. Collins

III. Texts: The following texts are appropriate materials, in conjunction with class lectures, through which the student can actualize the course goals: Bettenson, Henry. Documents of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. (Second Edition) Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1. San Francisco: Harper/Collins Publishers, 1984. Kerr, Hugh T. ed. Readings in Christian Thought. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989. McGrath, Alistar, Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Walton, Robert C. Chronological and Background Charts of Church History. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1986.
CH 502 Church History II

Kenneth J. Collins

II. Learning Goals I. General Goals 1. To appreciate the Christian Tradition so the student understands that our generation lives on the growing edge of a vast Christian heritage. 2. To grasp the normative historical expressions of the church that defined its community and mission. 3. To acquire basic factual knowledge of the persons, places, dates, events, and movements that shaped the history of the Christian Church. 4. To comprehend the issues that motivated the Church to develop its beliefs, practices, and structures and to grasp why, from time to time, the Church modified them. 5. To understand the evolution of Christian doctrine with respect to Scripture and tradition and to learn to discern between form and content. 6. To appreciate the importance of primary sources and the nature and effects of historical interpretation. 7. To view the present in the light of the prior beliefs and actions of the Christian community. 8. To evaluate one’s Christian vocation in the light of the historical and theological currents of the Christian tradition. 9. To gain insight into the nature of Christian ministry. 10. To participate in the task of developing capable and effective Christian leadership for the contemporary church which will maintain its faithfulness to its vital heritage. II. Specific Goals 1. To identify the key historical period of the Reformation and post-Reformation period. 2. To understand the major Reformation traditions—Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Anglican—and their theologians, especially in terms of faithfulness to the teachings of Scripture, the nature of the church, the sacraments, and soteriology. 3. To grasp the significant issues pertaining to salvation in the Protestant Reformation and understand the issues relating to Roman Catholicism. 4. To understand the Roman Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation, particularly the Council of Trent.5. To recognize and evaluate the major issues involved in the church’s efforts to relate to the social and political structures of the modern world. 6. To explore the eighteenth-century Enlightenment’s impact on the church. 7. To articulate the Puritan, Pietist, and Methodist traditions and to develop an increased awareness of the significant contributions of Wesleyanism to the broader church. 8. To demonstrate an understanding of the First and Second Great Awakenings. 9. To understand the cultural and theological context of historical criticism and its effect on the nature and authority of scripture. 10.To reflect on the problems and possibilities of church/state relations during this period. 11.To explore the interaction between church and culture, as the leading theologians developed their theologies. 12. To survey the major religious cults. 13. To trace the rise of modern missions and how Christianity became a global religion.
BS 504 Introduction to Biblical Studies: Old Testament

John A. Cook

Required textbooks (available at the book store): a) The New Oxford Annotated Bible (3rd augm. ed., 2007; ISBN 9780195288803) b) The Oxford Bible Atlas (4th ed., 2007; ISBN 9780191001581)
BS 504 Introduction to Biblical Studies: Old Testament

John A. Cook

Required textbooks (available at the book store): a) The New Oxford Annotated Bible (3rd augm. ed., 2007; ISBN 9780195288803) b) The Oxford Bible Atlas (4th ed., 2007; ISBN 9780191001581)
BS 502 Introduction to Biblical Studies

Joseph R. Dongell

Course Texts A) The Bible [in at least three different modern English versions] B) Bauer, David R. An Annotated Guide To Biblical Resources for Ministry. C) de Silva, David A. An Introduction to the New Testament: Contents, Methods & Ministry Formation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
BS 650 Studies in the Septuagint

Joseph R. Dongell

Course Texts: Conybeare, F. C. and St. George Stock. Grammar of Septuagint Greek: With Selected Readings, Vocabularies, and Updated Indexes. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1988. Jobes, Karen H. and Moises Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000. Lust, J. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1992-6. May, Herbert and Bruce Metzger, eds. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Rahlfs, Alfred. Septuaginta. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1935. Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Beyond the Basics: an Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
BT 825 Biblical Theology and Theological Hermenuetics

Joel B. Green

Course Description An exploration of the development of modern “biblical theology,” current models of engaging in the task of “biblical theology,” obstacles to a “biblical theology,” and the contemporary recovery of a theological hermeneutics in relation to the biblical theology movement.
CH 650 The Book of Common Prayer across The Centuries

William P. Haugaard

The purpose of the course is to survey the Book of Common Prayer from the sixteenth century, through succeeding three centuries, through the ecumenical liturgical movement of the twentieth century, to the present-day book authorized by the Episcopal Church in 1979. The British churches will provide the major focus up to the latter years of the eighteenth century when, in post-revolutionary North America, Anglicans first begin to modify the exclusively British setting and character of the Prayer Book. Throughout the course students will be encouraged to relate the developments of this distinctive tradition with those in other parts of the larger Christian community. The course will review and analyze the historical development of liturgy, including rite, ceremony, music, and architectural surroundings. Throughout, attention will be given to the relation of community worship to personal devotion and to the character of the larger community in which liturgy is celebrated. The central focus of class sessions will be the discussion of successive texts from the Prayer Books in relation with the dominant and demotic discourses of the society for which they were intended. Emphasis will be given to “the regular services appointed for public worship” in the Episcopal Church: the Holy Eucharist and Daily Morning and Evening Prayer” although attention will given from time to time to the Litany and the Pastoral Offices. Readings on the historical development and the theological assumptions and implications of the Prayer Book will be read by participants during the course of the semester.
CH 651 The Sacraments in History

William P. Haugaard

Required texts: James F. White, Documents of Christian Worship: Descriptive and Interpretive Sources [DCW] Bard Thompson, ed., Liturgies of the Western Church [LWC] John H. Leith, ed., Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present (3rd edition) [CC] John Fenwick & Bryan Spinks, Worship in Transition: the Liturgical Movement in the Twentieth Century
MM 602 Mentored Ministry Local Church

Barbara C. Holsinger and Sandra Richter

MM 602 is designed to take place outside the walls. This mentored ministry experience is intended to foster the intentional integration of your “book” studies in biblical theology and practical ministry with a “real live” ministry experience. Our seminar is intended to provide the opportunity for you to evaluate your “real live” experiences with your peers in a confidential, positive, but evaluative environment.
MM 602 Mentored Ministry Local Church

Barbara C. Holsinger and Sandra Richter

MM 602 is designed to take place outside the walls. This mentored ministry experience is intended to foster the intentional integration of your “book” studies in biblical theology and practical ministry with a “real live” ministry experience. Our seminar is intended to provide the opportunity for you to evaluate your “real live” experiences with your peers in a confidential, positive, but evaluative environment.
CD 511 The Pastor and Christian Discipleship

Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

REQUIRED TEXTS Basics of Christian Education by Karen B. Tye The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber John Wesley’s Class Meeting: A model for making disciples by Michael Henderson Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life by Henri Nouwen The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of The Sunday School by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices by Craig Dykstra Management Essentials for Christian Ministries by Michael J. Anthony and James Estep, Jr. (editors) Specific chapters will be assigned to each student for in-class project. *On Reserve - Leading the Congregation: Caring for Yourself While Serving the People by Norman Shawchuck and Roger Heuser Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision by Thomas Groome