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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Stephanie L. Sauvé The course is designed to invite students to explore, develop, stretch and enhance spiritual knowledge and practices. This course will offer students a variety of tools, approaches, methodologies and practices to engage as dance partners for their life journey. It is impossible to exhaust this topic in one three-credit course. Therefore, the intent of this course is to lay a foundation and to invite students to continually and proactively fill the well of their spiritual self.
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3.00 Credits
Stephanie L. Sauvé/Robin Y. Franklin & William B. Reynolds This course will focus on the most common emotional and spiritual issues that pastoral ministers are likely to encounter as they journey with others. We will look at the unique role of the Pastor in the life of the faith community and in the most intimate moments in the life of the people of that community. Case studies will provide student with practical experience dealing with life's wonder-filled and awe-filled moments.
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3.00 Credits
Gail A. Ricciuti Prerequisites: OT I and II, NT I and II, a CF Course, a Theology Course What distinguishes preaching that is pastoral, communicative of the Gospel, scripturally-rooted and spiritually liberating? Exploring these questions, the course will address sermon preparation and delivery, with opportunities for students to integrate theory and practice by preaching in class. Attention will be given to the use of language, metaphor and imagination, and responsible encounter with the biblical text.
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3.00 Credits
Gail A. Ricciuti An introductory preaching course with a focus upon interpreting homiletically the biblical/theological themes of Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, following the Revised Common Lectionary. The course will address sermon preparation and delivery, with opportunities for students to integrate theory and practice by preaching in class. Attention will be given to the use of language, metaphor and imagination, as well as communication of the Gospel to contemporary congregations.
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3.00 Credits
Linda H. Evans An introductory course in religious education, focusing on theological understandings of religious education, the dynamics of how cultural and congregational life educate people, and the ways in which one is simultaneously "pastor," "teacher" and "learner." Through site visits, interaction with practicing religious educators, and the use of and creation of Web resources, the course will strive to be practical as well as theoretical.
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3.00 Credits
Stephanie L. Sauvé/Barbara A. Moore Prerequisites: Attendance at the Site Fair, Evaluation I and Completion of all paperwork by June 1, the Spring before participation in Supervised Ministry, and a background check. Supervised Ministry 202 and 203 must be taken in the same academic year. The Supervised Ministry experience involves both practicum experience and an integrative class. In this experience students will: Practice the various arts and skills of ministry, in consultation with the supervisor. Practice doing theology inductively and analogically. Think critically about ministry in a way that relates to the context. Develop an integrated theology of ministry that uses the range of subjects taught in the theological curriculum. Develop the habits of learning in and from the community of ministry and of engaging in ongoing self-evaluation of his/her own work.
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3.00 Credits
Barbara A. Moore From the beginning of the new Christian community, the power and influence of this small sect within the Jewish tradition held a power and promise that changed lives. This has been true throughout Christian history. This class will explore a sampling of these communities and reflect on their importance and influence until the present day.
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3.00 Credits
Gail A. Ricciuti/Susan S. Maybeck The day-to-day and cyclical administration of the local church is influenced by a multiplicity of factors-among them, size, congregational makeup, leadership styles and expectations, gender issues, staff relationships, denominational and congregational understandings of leadership, decision-making style, communication, and community context. This course will explore these issues in relation to administrative styles and approaches that may borrow from the best wisdom of the corporate world but are specifically congruent with the Christian faith. Varied formats will be used for the class: role plays, case studies, discussion of readings, lectures, and use of evaluative tools to assist students in identifying their own leadership style and envisioning effective styles appropriate to the Church. Guests from fields of pastoral ministry and organizational administration and finance will regularly visit the class to speak about their own leadership values and administrative work with regard to specific daily course foci.
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3.00 Credits
Barbara A. Moore The vision of this course lies in the promise and transforming power in the art of conversation with men, women and children who in some way differ from us, and often find themselves on the edges of life. Conversation implies the capacity and effort to develop a listening heart, and the willingness to explore the directions into which such conversations may lead the class in exploring pastoral directions and creative actions.
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3.00 Credits
Gail A. Ricciuti Prerequisite: PT 118 The course explores how preaching constitutes an art, and transforms its practitioners into artists, by exploring the characteristics of other "fine arts" and the biblical roots of the creative act. The artistic valueof ambiguity, approaches of artists in other fields, identification of artistic practices for preachers, and avoidance of "kitsch" in thepulpit are also addressed, and in-class sharing of preaching artistry is included.
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