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DO 630 Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

Zaida Maldonado Perez

1. Barclay, William. The Promise of the Spirit. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. ISBN 0-664-22383-4 (alk. paper) 2. McDonnell, Kilian and George T. Montague. Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries. Collegville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994. (2nd. Ed.) ISBN 0-8146-5009-0 3. Montague, George T. Holy Spirit: Growth of a Biblical Tradition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1976. Second printing, 1998.*
ST 501 Method and Praxis in Theology

Zaida Maldonado Perez

1. Stone, Howard. W. and James O. Duke. How to Think Theologically. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996. 2. A Theological Dictionary(ies) of choice.
ST 501 Method and Praxis in Theology

Zaida Maldonado Perez

1. Stone, Howard. W. and James O. Duke. How to Think Theologically. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996. 2. Grenz, Stanley J. and Roger E. Olson. Who Needs Theology?: An Invitation to the Study of God. InterVarsity Press, 1996. 3. A Reading Packet is available through the ATS bookstore in Wilmore. You can reach them through the First Class system under ats bookstore or exlbooks. (See Appendix D) 4. A Theological Dictionary(ies) of choice. (For a small paperback version see: Grenz, Stanley J.,David Guretzki, and C. F. Nordling,eds. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms. Downers Grove, ILL: InterVarsity, 1999.)
NT 510 The Gospel of Matthew

Glenn E. Pfeiffer

A- The Bible- (Wow that's a surprise :)Revised Standard Version is preferred B- Robert A. Traina, Methodical Bible Study (Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press,1980) C- David L. Thompson, Bible Study That Works (Hereafter: BSTW) Revised edition. (Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1994). D- David R. Bauer, Biblical Resources for Ministry: A Bibliography of Works in Biblical Studies, (Hereafter: BRM), 2d ed. (Nappanee, Illinois: Evangel Publishing House, 1995).
MS 661 Urban Issues: Chicago

Christina Pohl

Breckenridge, James & Lillian (1995). What Color Is Your God? Multicultural Education in the Church. Baker Books, Grand Rapids: MI.
CS 601 Christian Ethics

Christine Pohl

To provide a biblical basis for the moral life. To describe various historical and contemporary Christian interpretations of social and personal moral issues. To use the basic vocabulary of ethical analysis. To use basic tools of social analysis. To explain the Wesleyan emphasis on the various dimensions of holiness, specifically the expectation for personal integrity, moral concern, and social responsibility. To recognize and explain at a basic level: the needs, contexts, and insights of various cultural groups and marginalized communities in society and in the church (these may include, but are not limited to, particularity arising from ethnic, gender, class, and geographic locations). To explain how responses to moral problems and moral integrity shape congregational life.
CS 610 Women in Church and Society

Christine Pohl

Clark, Elizabeth, and Herbert Richardson, eds., Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought (Harper Collins, 1996). 2 Evans, Mary, Woman in the Bible, 2nd ed. (Paternoster, 1998). Japinga, Lynn, Feminism and Christianity (Abingdon, 1999). Storkey, Elaine, Origins of Difference (Baker, 2001). Selected readings on reserve in the library.
CS 650 Tutorial in Christian Ethics

Christine Pohl

Miles, Rebekah L. The Pastor as Moral Guide (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999). Packet (readings are not necessarily in order)
CS 652 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

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. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994.
CS 652 Ethics of Hospitality and Contemporary Challenges

Christine Pohl

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. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994.
PR 610 The Theology and Practice of Preaching

David L. Rambo

Henderson, David W. CULTURE SHIFT. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, Inc. 1998 Due by February 26 Lowry, Eugene, THE HOMILETICAL PLOT. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1980. Due by May 7 Robinson, Haddon. BIBLICAL PREACHING. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2001 Due by February 14 Webb, Joseph M. PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2001. Due by May 9
NT 520 New Testament Introduction

Ruth Anne Reese

The New Testament (RSV or NRSV; however, multiple translations are recommended) DeSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. Downers Grove: IVP, 2000. - 3 - Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1995. Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Writings of the New Testament: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999. Theissen, Gerd. The Shadow of the Galilean. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1987. Veyne, The Roman Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Recommended Reading: Achtemeier, Paul J. Inspiration and Authority: Nature and Function of Christian Scripture. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999. Camery-Hoggart, Jerry. Speaking of God: Reading and Preaching the Word of God. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995. Felder, Cain Hope. Stony the Road We Trod Gonzalez, Justo L. Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.
NT 641 Exegesis of Hebrews

Ruth Anne Reese

Greek New Testament (Nestle-Aland for comprehensive students or an interlinear for concise students). DeSilva, David. Despising Shame: The Social Function of the Rhetoric of Honor and Shame in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Lindars, Barnabas. The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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) WJ Dumbrell, Covenant and Creation: A Theology of OT Covenants (Paternoster Press, 2000) Recommended Jon Levenson, Sinai & Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1985) David Baker & Bill Arnold, eds., The Face of Old Testament Studies (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999) Brevard S. Childs, OT Theology in a Canonical Context (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985)
OT 630 Exegesis of Isaiah

Sandra Richter

BHS Rudolph, W. and H.P. Ruger, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1984. Either BDB (A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament) or Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971. Pritchard, James B., ed. The HarpersCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkeley, CA: BIBAL Press, 1987.
OT 651 Intermediate Hebrew

Sandra Richter

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.
OT 710 Exegesis in the Pentateuch

Sandra Richter

BHS Rudolph, W. and H. P. Ruger, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1984. Either BDB (A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament) or Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971. Pritchard, James B., ed. The HarpersCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkeley, CA: BIBAL Press, 1987.
CO 610 Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling

George R. Ross

Herlihy, B. & Corey, G., (1996). ACA ethical standards casebook. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA. (326 pages) Sanders, Randolph K., (1997). Christian counseling ethics: A handbook for therapists, pastors and counselors, Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. (404 pages) Moline, M.E., Williams, G.T., & Austin, K.M., (1998). Documenting psychotherapy: Essentials for mental health practitioners. Sage, London. (189 pages) _____, (1998). AACC Christian counseling code of ethics. American Association of Christian Counseling, Forest, VA. (20 pages)
CO 625 Recognizing and Treating Addictive Disorders

George R. Ross

Ross, G.R. (1994). Treating adolescent substance abuse: Understanding the fundamental elements, Boston: Allyn & Bacon. (214 pages) Marlatt, G.A. & VandenBos, G.R. (1997). Addictive behaviors: Readings on etiology, prevention, and treatment Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. (874 pages) McGee, R.S. (1998). The search for significance, Pasadena, TX: Robert S. McGee. (339 pages) McGee, R.S. & McCleskey, D. W. (1994) Conquering chemical dependency: A Christ-centered 12 step process, Roashville, TN: Lifeway Press. (224 pages) Weinberg, J.R. & Kosloske, D. (1977) Fourth step guide: Journey into growth, Minneapolis, MN: Comp Care Publishers. (46 pages)
OT 520 Foundations for Old Testament Study

Brian D. Russell

William J. Dumbrell. The Faith of Israel: A Theological Survey of the Old Testament. 2nd. Ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002. James Luther Mays, David L. Petersen, and Kent Harold Richards, eds. Old Testament Interpretation: Past, Present, and Future. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Richard E. Friedman. Who Wrote the Bible? 2nd ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997. WWB H. Shanks, ed. Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Rev. ed. Biblical Archaeology Society and Prentice Hall, 1999. AI James B. Pritchard, ed. The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). ATLAS
OT 611 Exegesis of Exodus

Brian D. Russell

A. Required specifically for OT 611. John I. Durham. Exodus. WBC. Waco: Word, 1987. Terrence E. Fretheim. Exodus. Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991. Michael Walzer. Exodus and Revolution T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity, 2002. B. Required in previous courses (OT 501). Arnold, Bill and John Choi. "Guide for the Perplexed": Hebrew Syntax for Pastors and Students. Unpublished text but forthcoming through Oxford University Press. Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1971. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkley, Calif.: BIBAL, 1987. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995.
OT 611 Exegesis of Exodus

Brian D. Russell

John I. Durham. Exodus. WBC. Waco: Word, 1987. Terrence E. Fretheim. Exodus. Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991. Michael Walzer. Exodus and Revolution B. Required in previous courses (OT 501). Arnold, Bill and John Choi. "Guide for the Perplexed": Hebrew Syntax for Pastors and Students. Unpublished text. Copies will be available for student use. Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1971. Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to BHS. Berkley, Calif.: BIBAL, 1987. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. C. Recommended: BibleWorks 4.0 or 5.0 (Hermeneutika) D. Recommended Commentaries and Studies: See attached bibliography
OT 612 Psalms

Brian D. Russell

1. RSV, NRSV, NIV, or some other non-paraphrased version of the Bible. The best Bible for IBS is one that contains only the text without paragraph headings, study notes, etc. I found it profitable to buy a completely unmarked "pew" bible to use exclusively for IBS. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson . 3. William W. Klein, Craig Blomberg, and Robert Hubbard, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Word, 1993) 4. James Luther Mays. Psalms. Interpretation. Louisville: WJK, 1994. 5. J. Clinton McCann and James C. Howell. Preaching the Psalms (Abingdon, 2002)
OT 612 Psalms

Brian D. Russell

1. RSV, NRSV, NIV, or some other non-paraphrased version of the Bible. The best Bible for IBS is one that contains only the text without paragraph headings, study notes, etc. I found it profitable to buy a completely unmarked "pew" bible to use exclusively for IBS. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson . 3. William W. Klein, Craig Blomberg, and Robert Hubbard, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Word, 1993) 4. James Luther Mays. Psalms. Interpretation. Louisville: WJK, 1994. 5. J. Clinton McCann and James C. Howell. Preaching the Psalms (Abingdon, 2002)
WO 510 Worship Leadership in the Church

Lester Ruth

These books and pamphlets, some of which are very short. (I will discuss a reading schedule below.) --[no author], Authentic Worship in a Changing Culture (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1997; ISBN 1-56212-257-6). --Thomas G. Long, Beyond the Worship Wars: Building Vital and Faithful Worship (The Alban Institute, 2001; ISBN 1-56699-240-0). --Timothy J. Mulder, So You've Been Asked To Lead in Prayer (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1996.) --Robert Webber, Planning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old & New (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998; ISBN 0-687-03223- 7). --James F. White, A Brief History of Christian Worship (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993; ISBN 0-687-03414-0). --John D. Witvliet, So You've Been Asked To Plan a Worship Service (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1999; ISBN 1-56212-393-9). --John D. Witvliet, So You've Been Asked To Lead a Worship Service (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1999; ISBN 1-52212-392-0).