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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester; J. Bradley Wigger This course is designed especially for those students who are concentrating in educational ministry and have taken at least two courses in Christian Education. The goal is to extend, deepen, and integrate the work of those who have been preparing for placement in educational ministry positions in the church. Contact the professor before registration.
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David C. Hester This is a course intended to assist Pastor- Educators in teaching practical theological reflection in a local church. It is assumed that practical theology is the responsibility of the people of God and one for which seminary graduates need to have particular educational concern. This course will develop participants' skills for practical theological reflection and consider appropriate ways for teaching these skills to others. A case-study method will be used, employing, where possible, issues from student field education settings. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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J. Bradley Wigger This course explores families as they potentially serve as "means of grace" not only fortheir own members but also for the church and larger society. Insights from the human sciences and the arts will be engaged in relation to theological convictions and experience in order more deeply to understand the shifting as well as persistent situations of families in all their beauty, misery, power, and mystery. Students will have the opportunity to reflect upon and design ways in which congregations and their leadership can encourage educational ministry with and within families. How can churches be a resource for families and vice versa How does a younger generation learn the practices of faith How do families teach moral and ultimate concern to one another in their words, loves, hates, life-styles, and activities What can a teaching ministry do This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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David C. Hester This seminar discusses hermeneutical issues raised by the use of the Bible in educational ministry. Students develop practical goals for biblical education that reflect the canonical authority, inspiration, literary, and theological significance of Scripture. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester; J. Bradley Wigger This course consists of seminars intending to engage faculty, students in field education placements, and their supervisors, in interpreting and planning for the teaching ministry needs of the congregations involved. This is a field-based seminar, using congregational studies methodology. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester; J. Bradley Wigger In this course, students will examine the practice of teaching and, in particular, teaching for faith and the life of faith. The Church understands that there are "ordinary means of grace" given to the Body of Christ as "practicesof faith" and the means of growing in the life of faith. Teaching is one such practice by which Scripture may be studied and learned, the traditions of the church examined and put into practice in contemporary life, and children and adults equipped to participate in baptism, the Lord's Supper, worship, and life together in the community of faith. Using a practical theology methodology the class will explore the practice and art of teaching through historical review, contemporary contextual analysis, and examination of learning and teaching theory and practice. Ultimately, the class will work toward practical wisdom that will enable students to discern gifts of teaching in themselves and others, to identify excellence in the art of teaching, and to suggest ways by which a community can encourage its members in their practice of teaching toward ever greater excellence and value for the church's life together and God's missionto the world. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity program.
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3.00 Credits
J. Bradley Wigger This seminar concentrates upon the art and craft of writing for the Church (broadly understood). Students will be introduced to and practice various kinds of writing. This includes writing curriculum materials, Bible studies, devotional materials, children's stories, poetry, pastoral letters, lyrics, essays, church newsletters, fiction, and writing for denominational magazines or newspapers. Students will explore the role and place of written words in the Church's educational ministry, and consider the theological implications and possibilities of writing and words. This course is a general elective and does not fulfill the teaching ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity program.
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3.00 Credits
J. Bradley Wigger; Dianne Reistroffer This intensive, one week, field-based course takes place on the former Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee (in conjunction with the Children's Defense Fund's Institute for ChildAdvocacy Ministry Conference). Students participate in worship, lectures, workshops, and small group discussions all relevant to ministries with children and child advocacy. Theological reflection is combined with practice-based strategies for congregational, family, and community ministries. The course requires attendance at the conference, outside assignments, and times of discussion with the teacher and other students. This course is a general elective and does not fulfill the teaching ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity program without prior permission from the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester This course provides an examination of Christian Education practice in the history of the church, including the emergence of the Sunday School and contributions of important figures like Horace Bushnell, George Albert Coe, Lewis J. Sherrill, James Smart, C. Ellis Nelson, and Thomas Groome.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester; J. Bradley Wigger Students may focus in depth on particular issues or problems of immediate concern in Christian education by personal contract with the professor. This course does not fulfill the teaching ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity program.
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