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3.00 Credits
Thomas E. Goetz This course is a study of the development of church music as it relates to the liturgy, including musical leadership by the clergy, the role of congregational singing, and choral and instrumental music. Music from antiquity to the present will be explored, including the most recent developments. Ideas and theories which have shaped church music in the principal denominations will be studied, and implications for current worship practices will be explored.
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Reading material, lectures, and discussions are used to increase exegetical skills designed to assist in preaching. Students learn how to move from a particular text to preaching, practice various exegetical skills, and deal with a variety of different types of Biblical material. The goal of the course is to discover ways to improve the use of exegesis for the preparation of sermons. Prerequisites: Scripture I, Scripture II, The Elements of Biblical Hebrew, The Elements of New Testament Greek, Introduction to Old Testament Exegesis, Basic New Testament Exegesis, Basic Preaching.
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This course will examine the various literary genres of the Bible with an eye toward how best to preach such texts. We will explore the distinctive features, history of interpretation, ideological presuppositions, and ethical implications of each genre studied. These will include historical and narrative, poetic, wisdom, parable, prophetic, apocalyptic, gospel, and epistolary literature. This course will be taught in a seminar format, with students giving a class presentation of the distinctives of each genre, followed by a sermon from a representative text and evaluative class discussion of the sermon. Thus students will gain experiential knowledge of the biblical genres, hermeneutics of both text and situation, forming a homiletic shape appropriate to each genre, and the various tasks involved in preaching the Word intended by a text today.
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3.00 Credits
Cláudio Carvalhaes During six classes, students will be able to understand the centrality of the body in religious rituals, gain a certain understanding about rites of passage, practice several movements that pertain to worship services and perform the major rites of the Christian tradition. The six classes will be divided as follows: rites of passage, leading worship service (talking, reading, walking, touching, moving, listening, improvising), baptism, eucharist, wedding and funeral.
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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. Blackboard postings providing student background information and preaching contexts will begin in November. Pre-requisites for this course are: Prerequisites: Faith Seeking Understanding, HCE I & II, Scripture I, Scripture II, Introduction to Old Testament Exegesis, Basic New Testament Exegesis, Basic Preaching.
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3.00 Credits
Upon presenting a viable plan of study in the area of preaching and/or worship, a student may enroll in this course with the permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Practical Theology in Congregations is a yearlong course taken in conjunction with a field education placement in a congregation, intentionally combining field-based learning with classroom learning. The course is designed to encourage participants to benefit from the shared wisdom gained from communal reflection on the practice of ministry. In order to discipline this reflection and deepen practice, the course will draw upon various biblicaltheological and anthropological resources, field based and life experiences, as well as the arts and multiple forms of intelligence. At the heart of the course is a basic theological question: How is God's grace known and lived in the life of congregations and in the practice of ministry Prerequisites: Supervised, congregation-based field placement is ordinarily required concurrent with the classroom portion of the course.
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3.00 Credits
Practical Theology in Congregations is a yearlong course taken in conjunction with a field education placement in a congregation, intentionally combining field-based learning with classroom learning. The course is designed to encourage participants to benefit from the shared wisdom gained from communal reflection on the practice of ministry. In order to discipline this reflection and deepen practice, the course will draw upon various biblicaltheological and anthropological resources, field based and life experiences, as well as the arts and multiple forms of intelligence. At the heart of the course is a basic theological question: How is God's grace known and lived in the life of congregations and in the practice of ministry Prerequisites: Supervised, congregation-based field placement is ordinarily required concurrent with the classroom portion of the course.
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2.00 Credits
This two-semester course is designed to challenge third-year students to continue engaging in intensive theological reflection on their practice of ministry in a supervised field education setting. The student will design with a faculty member a theological reflection paper of approximately 10-12 pages related to their practice of ministry in the field education setting. The faculty member may suggest bibliographic material for the student to read.
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2.00 Credits
This two-semester course is designed to challenge third-year students to continue engaging in intensive theological reflection on their practice of ministry in a supervised field education setting. The student will design with a faculty member a theological reflection paper of approximately 10-12 pages related to their practice of ministry in the field education setting. The faculty member may suggest bibliographic material for the student to read.
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