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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Consideration of the fundamentals of church leadership in the 21st Century, exploring topics such as administrative skills, collaborative leadership, core values and ethics, spiritual formation, congregational systems, and denominational polity.
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3.00 Credits
An examination through the lens of the Community of Christ in the 21st century. Different contemporary approaches to mission and evangelism will be reviewed and critiqued, giving the students opportunity to test the viability and practicality of these approaches in their ministry area.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to root peace and justice making in Christian discipleship. Students will be expected to draw upon their life experience and studies in other seminary courses to develop a critical prophetic perspective on human systems and institutions. Islam and Anabaptism will be contrasting traditions to help understand pursuing peace in a pluralistic world. Students will work on articulating a personal theology of peace and justice that has personal discipleship dimensions as well as practical congregational expression.
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3.00 Credits
Through a process of reading, reflection, cinema review, journaling, and writing on selected topics, course participants will develop skills and knowledge for spiritual formation ministries in diverse settings. Students will gain practice in creating and facilitating individual and corporate spiritual enrichment. The course's experiential and academic components will be rooted in story, scripture and sacrament. Connections between spiritual practice in Christianity and other world religions will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for students to gain experience in the practice of ministry in their chosen area of specialization. Students will experience ministry in a supervised setting where they will benefit from feedback by a more experienced person in the chosen area of specialized ministry. Students design their practicum in consultation with their faculty advisor. (Graded on a Pass/Fail basis.)
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the fundamentals of sound Christian religious education, including developmental issues in faith formation, differences in learning styles, and pedagogical methods that promote transformative learning.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of pastoral care that are required for an effective liberative ministry of nurture, healing, and spiritual growth in the church. Attention will be given to the fundamental theological foundations and of the aims, methods, and resources for pastoral care. A limited practical exposure to the art of counseling will be offered.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the church as a worshiping community. Historical and contemporary patterns of worship are examined with attention to planning and conducting the worship experience for congregations of all sizes and within diverse ethnic and intercultural settings.
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3.00 Credits
Participants will learn to develop and deliver scripture-based sermons through instruction in homiletical theory and practice. Using discussion, lecture, and small group processes, participants will explore fundamental convictions about preaching: preaching as witness, the preaching task, steps in creating a sermon, sermon delivery, the experience of the listener, emotion and imagination in preaching, the vocabulary of faith, spirituality in preaching, and sermon evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the nature and implications of current issues and practices found in major world cultures with emphasis on their impact on Christian ministry, particularly ecumenical and intercultural ministry.
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