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3.00 Credits
Debra J. Mumford This course will explore the influence of the student's eschatology on her/his preaching. During the course, students will identify their current views while engaging multiple views (Conservative Evangelical to Liberating Eschatologies). Students will be assigned readings in preaching, Biblical studies, and theology; submit written responses to chosen readings; evaluate sermons for their eschatological content; and write and present one sermon in class.
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3.00 Credits
Debra J. Mumford In any preaching moment, there exist the preacher and the hearers with all of their inherent complexities. The greater the preacher's knowledge of the hearers and their contexts, the more effective can be the preaching moment. This course highlights the importance of culture for preaching by teaching students to begin sermon preparation process with exegesis of the congregation. Exegesis of the congregation is the process of analyzing the culture of the congregation by understanding congregational rituals, symbols, events, activities, worldviews, values and demographics. This knowledge of the congregation can then be used to more effectively engage biblical exegesis, theology and homiletic strategies. In this course, students will engage homiletic readings from various cultural contexts and perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Debra J. Mumford During the decades of African/African American enslavement, biblical preaching was often used to justify and maintain the institution of slavery. African American prophetic preaching evolved from the experiences of enslaved Africans who chose to believe in a God of liberation - who loved them for who they were and who created them to be a free people. Black rhetorical traditions will be delineated and identified through study of African American preachers and sermons from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Unique characteristics such as call and response, celebration in preaching, and black hermeneutics will be explored. Each student will be required to preach one sermon using African American preaching traditions as a model. Prerequisites: Basic Preaching
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3.00 Credits
Cláudio Carvalhaes; Loren L. Townsend This course will explore connections between worship and pastoral care. The class will examine alternatives to the modern notion that pastoral care is universally best expressed through a private, client-centered psychotherapeutic paradigm. During the semester, we will explore a communal-contextual approach in which care is expressed through multiversal liturgies designed to construct ecclesial contexts to sustain and strengthen community practices of care, expand care to include public, structural and political dimensions of personal and relational experience, and generate an expanded theology of care. Congregational, chaplaincy, and other contexts for worship will be discussed. This course is a Worship or Pastoral Care general elective.
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3.00 Credits
Amy Plantinga Pauw One of the great needs in the church today is for theologically informed preaching. This apparently simple homiletical quality is notoriously difficult to achieve. In this teamtaught course students will be asked to locate their own theology and integrate it with text and life. The method will be dialogical and collegial.
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3.00 Credits
Cláudio Carvalhaes This interdisciplinary course will work towards the development of ritual theory and performance studies in relation to liturgical practices. Students will engage in close readings and analysis of a variety of texts, observe different performances around the city and interact in ritual/performative/liturgical practices within class and chapel.
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3.00 Credits
Thomas E. Goetz Functions of music in the church are explored in this course. Students will study effective roles for music ministry, historical applications of church music, possibilities for music in worship and education today, and developing a music ministry.
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3.00 Credits
Thomas E. Goetz Weekly practice and participation in the chapel choir over the course of a year is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the opportunity to increase proficiency in public speaking through visualization, performance technique, video review, and group feedback.
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3.00 Credits
Class sessions are devoted to the hearing and evaluation of student-preached sermons in this practicum. Each student preaches several times, and, with one or two faculty members, joins in evaluating the sermons of other students. Prerequisites: Basic Preaching.
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