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Interviews In Support Of For The Whole World : A Century Of Mission At Asbury Theological Seminary, John Steven O'Malley Jan 2023

Interviews In Support Of For The Whole World : A Century Of Mission At Asbury Theological Seminary, John Steven O'Malley

Seminary History Documents

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The Discipleship Band : Evaluating The Transformative Potential And Best Practices For Seedbed's Model Of Discipleship Bands Among Students At Asbury University, Mark A. Benjamin May 2021

The Discipleship Band : Evaluating The Transformative Potential And Best Practices For Seedbed's Model Of Discipleship Bands Among Students At Asbury University, Mark A. Benjamin

ATS Dissertations

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God's People Revived : An Account Of The Spontaneous Revival At Asbury College In February 1950, Henry C. James Jan 2019

God's People Revived : An Account Of The Spontaneous Revival At Asbury College In February 1950, Henry C. James

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A Short History Of Asbury Theological Seminary, Howard Fenimore Shipps Jan 2013

A Short History Of Asbury Theological Seminary, Howard Fenimore Shipps

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Halls Aflame: An Account Of The Spontaneous Revivals At Asbury College In 1950 And 1958, Robert E. Coleman, Henry C. James, Paul Rader Jan 2013

Halls Aflame: An Account Of The Spontaneous Revivals At Asbury College In 1950 And 1958, Robert E. Coleman, Henry C. James, Paul Rader

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One Divine Moment: The Account Of The Asbury Revival Of 1970, Robert E. Coleman, David J. Gyertson Jan 2013

One Divine Moment: The Account Of The Asbury Revival Of 1970, Robert E. Coleman, David J. Gyertson

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A Biographical Sketch Of Henry Clay Morrison, D.D.: The Man And His Ministry, C. F. Wimberly Jan 2012

A Biographical Sketch Of Henry Clay Morrison, D.D.: The Man And His Ministry, C. F. Wimberly

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Autobiography Of John Wesley Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, Andrew Johnson Jan 2012

Autobiography Of John Wesley Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, Andrew Johnson

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Bs 504 Introduction To Biblical Studies: Old Testament, John A. Cook Jan 2007

Bs 504 Introduction To Biblical Studies: Old Testament, John A. Cook

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Required textbooks (available at the book store): a) The New Oxford Annotated Bible (3rd augm. ed., 2007; ISBN 9780195288803) b) The Oxford Bible Atlas (4th ed., 2007; ISBN 9780191001581)


Cd 510 Foudnations In Christian Discipleship, Ellen L. Marmon Jan 2007

Cd 510 Foudnations In Christian Discipleship, Ellen L. Marmon

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Required Textbooks (reading that forms and informs) • • • • • • • Introducing Christian Education: Foundations for the Twenty-first Century, Michael J. Anthony, ed. Making Disciples: Faith Formation in the Wesleyan Tradition, Sondra Higgins Matthaei Creative Ministry, Henri Nouwen – Chapters 1 and 4 Patterns in Moral Development, Catherine M. Stonehouse. "Learning from Gender Differences," Catherine M. Stonehouse A Many Colored Kingdom, Conde-Frazier, Kang, & Parrett Spiritual Preparation for Christian Leadership, Glenn Hinson


Cd 511 The Pastor And Christian Discipleship, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller Jan 2007

Cd 511 The Pastor And Christian Discipleship, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

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REQUIRED TEXTS Basics of Christian Education by Karen B. Tye The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber John Wesley’s Class Meeting: A model for making disciples by Michael Henderson Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life by Henri Nouwen The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of The Sunday School by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices by Craig Dykstra Management Essentials for Christian Ministries by Michael J. Anthony and James Estep, Jr. (editors) Specific chapters will be assigned to each student for in-class project. *On Reserve - …


Cd 552 Discipleship And Missions: Preparing People To Serve Locally And Globally, Julie Broderson Jan 2007

Cd 552 Discipleship And Missions: Preparing People To Serve Locally And Globally, Julie Broderson

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Required Texts 1. Short-term Missions Workbook: from Mission Tourists to Global Citizens, (2003). Tim Dearborn. IVP 2. The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip, ( 1998). David C. Forward. Moody. 3. GO and Make Disciples! An Introduction to Christian Missions. (1999). Roger S. Greenway. P & R Publishing Co.


Cd 511 The Pastor And Christian Discipleship, Ellen L. Marmon Jan 2007

Cd 511 The Pastor And Christian Discipleship, Ellen L. Marmon

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My goal is for this experience to help you grow in your ability to communicate the faith through teaching and discipling ministries with children, youth, and adults (all ages and stages). You will also learn to lead others, facilitating their growth as Christians and as effective servants in education ministries. In the midst of all the tools, techniques, and to do lists, I will be praying that this course enhances your own faith and opens up more room for Jesus to be your true Teacher, your ultimate Guide along The Way.Required Texts 1. Postmodern Children’s Ministry: Ministry to Children in …


Cd 560 The Ministry Of Teaching, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller Jan 2007

Cd 560 The Ministry Of Teaching, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

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REQUIRED TEXTS Barbara Bruce, Our Spiritual Brain. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-687- 09266-3 Joseph Lowman, Mastering The Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc. 1995. ISBN 0-7879-0127-X. Marlene D. LeFever, Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave You to Teach. Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, 1995. ISBN: 0-7814-5117-5 Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching as a Sacramental Act. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-8298-1647-X Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0-7879-1058-9 Robert Pazmino, Basics of Teaching for Christians. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. ISBN: 0-8010-2173-1 Susan Shaw, …


Cd 610 Moral Development, Chris Kiesling Jan 2007

Cd 610 Moral Development, Chris Kiesling

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TEXTBOOKS James C. Wilhoit and John M. Dettoni. Nurture that is Christian: Developmental Perspectives on Christian Education. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1995. James Fowler. Faithful Change: The Personal and Public Challenges of Postmodern Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996. Jean Piaget, The Moral Judgment of the Child. New York, Free Press, 1965. E Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Mount.


Cd 615 Discipleship Development In The Home, Chris Kiesling Jan 2007

Cd 615 Discipleship Development In The Home, Chris Kiesling

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Textbooks: Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick, The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1999. Larry Crabb, Connecting: A Radical New Vision. Nashville: Word, 1997. Donald Joy, Empower Your Kids to be Adults. Nappanee: Indiana, 2000. OR Marjorie Thompson, Family: The Forming Center. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996. Donald Joy, Two Become One. Napannee: Indiana, 2000. OR Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. OR Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage. Multnomah Press. 1985. Dennis Kinlaw, Sacred Pedagogy. (booklet from Francis Asbury Press).


Cd 656 Discipling Children In The Large Church, Catherine Stonehouse Jan 2007

Cd 656 Discipling Children In The Large Church, Catherine Stonehouse

Syllabi

Reading (20 points) Barna, George. Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions: Why Children Should be Your Church’s # 1 Priority, Ventura CA: Regal, 2003. Beckwith, Ivy. Postmodern Children’s Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. Miller, Sue, David Stall. Making Your Children’s Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid’s Week, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. Westerhoff III, John H. Will Our Children Have Faith? Revised Edition, Toronto: Morehouse, 2000.


Cd 651 Professional Foundations Of Christian Education, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller Jan 2007

Cd 651 Professional Foundations Of Christian Education, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

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Required Reading A History of Christian Education by James E. Reed and Ronnie Prevost. Sourcebook of the Christian Faith: Primary source readings from the history of Christian education(latest edition), edited by Robert F. Lay, Taylor Universtiy, 2004. (This text can only be purchased at the ATS Cokesbury bookstore.) Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless The Big Little School: Two Hundred Years of the Sunday School, by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright Religious Education in the African American Tradition: A Comprehensive Introduction by Kenneth H. Hill


Cd 663 Older Adult Ministry, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller Jan 2007

Cd 663 Older Adult Ministry, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

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REQUIRED TEXTS Aging: God’s challenge to church and synagogue by Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., and Donald F. Clingan 121 pages Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st century: Step-by-Step Strategies for Reaching People Over Fifty by David P. Gallagher 136 pages Aging: The fulfillment of Life by Henri J. M. Nouwen and Walter Gaffney 157 pages Growing Old in Christ edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador and David Cloutier. 301 pages


Cd 665 Curricullum Theory, Development, And Selection, Catherine Stonehouse Jan 2007

Cd 665 Curricullum Theory, Development, And Selection, Catherine Stonehouse

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Reading (20 points) Complete reading assignments prior to the class session listed with each assignment. Bring to class notes on the reflection questions and be prepared to discuss the material. Fashion Me a People: Curriculum in the Church by Maria Harris. (Read by February 13) Reflection Questions: What do you see as the most significant insights from Harris?How does Harris define education? How would you explain her concepts to your lay volunteer teachers? How does Harris define curriculum? What challenges will we face in our effort to shape the whole life of the church as the curriculum? What will we …


Ch 500 Turning Points In Church History, Meesaeng Lee Choi Jan 2007

Ch 500 Turning Points In Church History, Meesaeng Lee Choi

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REQUIRED TEXTS: Noll, Mark A. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2000. Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999. St. Athanasius. On the Incarnation. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000. St. Benedict. The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry. Liturgical Press, Hattaway, Paul and als. Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission. Gabriel Publishing, 2003. CH500 Course Packet (ATS bookstore) Selected primary source and additional readings …


Ch 501 Church History I, Kenneth J. Collins Jan 2007

Ch 501 Church History I, Kenneth J. Collins

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III. Texts: The following texts are appropriate materials, in conjunction with class lectures, through which the student can actualize the course goals: Bettenson, Henry. Documents of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. (Second Edition) Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1. San Francisco: Harper/Collins Publishers, 1984. Kerr, Hugh T. ed. Readings in Christian Thought. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989. McGrath, Alistar, Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Walton, Robert C. Chronological and Background Charts of Church History. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1986.


Ch 501 Church History I, J. Steven O'Malley Jan 2007

Ch 501 Church History I, J. Steven O'Malley

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REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS The following texts are appropriate materials, in conjunctioin with class lectures, throough which the student can actualize the course goals: Bettenson, Henry. Documents of the Christian Church. (Oxford paperback, second ed.). This is a record of crucial letters and texts of official church proclamations that shaped the direction of church leadership in the history of the church. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity. Vol I. (Abingdon paper ad.) A concise but insightful analysis of the history of early Christianity, through the Middle Ages, that weaves a narrative that I often compelling for the reader. Irvin, Dale, and Sunquist, …


Ch 502 Church History Ii, Meesaeng Lee Choi Jan 2007

Ch 502 Church History Ii, Meesaeng Lee Choi

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REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity: The Reformation to the Present Day, vol. 2. San Francisco: Harper/Collins Publishers, 1985. (390p) 2. Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform. InterVarsity Press, 1999 (Beginning from Part VII, 369-613). (240p) 3. Noll, Mark A., ed. Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991. (200p) 4. Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002. (70p) 5. Course Packet


Ch 502 Church History Ii, J. Steven O'Malley Jan 2007

Ch 502 Church History Ii, J. Steven O'Malley

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Required Textbooks Bettenson, Henry, ed., Documents of the Christian Church (Oxford paperback, second ed.). This is a record of crucial letters and texts of official church proclamations that shaped the direction of church leadership in the history of the church. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity, Vol. 2 (Abingdon paper ed., 1984) A concise, but insightful, analysis of the history of modern Christianity that weaves a narrative which is often compelling for the reader. Gonzalez, Justo. History of Christian Thought, Vol.3 (Abingdon, 1971) An in-depth treatment of theological developments. (abbreviated: HCT) Kerr, Hugh T., ed., Readings in Christian Thought. (Abingdon …


Ch 502 Church History Ii, Kenneth J. Collins Jan 2007

Ch 502 Church History Ii, Kenneth J. Collins

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II. Learning Goals I. General Goals 1. To appreciate the Christian Tradition so the student understands that our generation lives on the growing edge of a vast Christian heritage. 2. To grasp the normative historical expressions of the church that defined its community and mission. 3. To acquire basic factual knowledge of the persons, places, dates, events, and movements that shaped the history of the Christian Church. 4. To comprehend the issues that motivated the Church to develop its beliefs, practices, and structures and to grasp why, from time to time, the Church modified them. 5. To understand the evolution …


Co 725 Research Seminar: Theory And Design, Janet B. Dean Jan 2006

Co 725 Research Seminar: Theory And Design, Janet B. Dean

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Required Texts: • Kumar, R. (1996). Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. • Locke, L. F., Silverman, S. J., & Spirduso, W. W. (2004). Reading and understanding research (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. • Course articles, available through library. • Course lecture outlines, available on ATS intranet (go to: Firstclass, Wilmore Campus, Student Info, Lecture Power Points, Dean, CO725) • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.).


Co 730 Advanced Issues In Cross-Cultural Counseling, Tapiwa N. Mucherera Jan 2006

Co 730 Advanced Issues In Cross-Cultural Counseling, Tapiwa N. Mucherera

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Readings: Required Dwairy, Marwan Adeeb, Cross-cultural Counseling: the Arab-Palestinian case, New York: Haworth Press, 1998 Pedersen, Paul et al. Counseling Across Cultures. California: Sage Publications, 2001 Sue and Sue, Counseling the Culturally Diverse New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Mucherera, Tapiwa N. Pastoral Care From a Third World Perspective: A Pastoral Theology of Care from an Urban Contemporary Shona in Zimbabwe New York: Peter Lang, 2001


Cs 625 Black History, Theology And Mission, Richard Gray Jan 2006

Cs 625 Black History, Theology And Mission, Richard Gray

Syllabi

REQUIRED READING: Bennett, Lerone., Before the Mayflower. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Moses, Wilson Jeremiah., The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Wilmore, Gayraud S., Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1986. Robinson, Randall., The Debt. New York: Dutton Books, 2000.


Cs 601 Christian Ethics, James R. Thobaben Jan 2006

Cs 601 Christian Ethics, James R. Thobaben

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Texts: Boulton, Wayne G., Thomas D.Kennedy, and Allen Verhey, eds., From Christ to the World: Introductory Readings in Christian Ethics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994). Dayton, Donald W., Discovering an Evangelical Heritage (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1988).