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Fall 2006 Commencement - The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin, The University Of Texas Permian Basin
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UTPB Commencement Programs
Fall 2006 Commencement - December 9, 2006
Sagestep News, Fall/Winter 2006, No. 2, Sagestep
Sagestep News, Fall/Winter 2006, No. 2, Sagestep
Newsletters
Seasonal newsletter of SageSTEP.
Cs 601 Christian Ethics, James R. Thobaben
Cs 601 Christian Ethics, James R. Thobaben
Syllabi
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).
Cs 652 Ethics Of Hospitality And Contemporary Challenges, Christine Pohl
Cs 652 Ethics Of Hospitality And Contemporary Challenges, Christine Pohl
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Texts: Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Amy Oden, And You Welcomed Me. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. 1 Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994. Other readings will be accessed on the internet.
Cs 654 Morality At The End Of Modernity, James R. Thobaben
Cs 654 Morality At The End Of Modernity, James R. Thobaben
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Cs 682 Bioethics: Creation And The Environment, James R. Thobaben
Cs 682 Bioethics: Creation And The Environment, James R. Thobaben
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TEXTS: REQUIRED Barkey, M. (ed) Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition [a very short book, easy to read, more “liberty” oreinted] Bradie, M. The Secret Chain: Evolution and Ethics [a fairly difficult book; try to pick up arguments without excessive concern on exactly who said what; the major “players” will be discussed in class] Moreland, J.P. & Reynolds, J., editors Three Views on Creation and Evolution [an accessible book covering three Christian positions] Pojman, Louis P. , Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, 4th Edition [it is what its title suggests]
Mb 810 Advanced Missiological Anthropology, Michael A. Rynkiewich
Mb 810 Advanced Missiological Anthropology, Michael A. Rynkiewich
Syllabi
Texts: problems and to make and execute mission plans. COURSE REQUIREMENTS 1. Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues – Paul Hiebert (1994) 2. Anthropological Theory 2nd ed. (2000) - R. J. McGee and R. L. Warms (eds.) 3. The Church and Cultures: New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology (1988) – Louis J. Luzbetak 4. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Third Edition (paperback). 2002. –H. Russell Bernard. AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7591-0148-5
Mb 750 Mc 672 Values And Ethics In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Steven Ybarrola
Mb 750 Mc 672 Values And Ethics In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Steven Ybarrola
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Required Texts: Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart Adeney, Bernard, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World Ritchie, Mark Andrew, Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman’s Story Smith, Christian, Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture Wentzel Wolfe, Regina and Christine Gudorf, Ethics and World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies
Me 820 Seminar In Evangelization: Applied Historical Perspectives, George G. Hunter
Me 820 Seminar In Evangelization: Applied Historical Perspectives, George G. Hunter
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Course Readings Asbury’s bookstore has ordered the following sources for us: 1. Michael Green. Evangelism in the Early Church, rev. ed. (Eerdmans, 2003) 2. Rodney Stark. The Rise of Christianity (Harper-Collins p. b., 1997. 3 Richard Fletcher. The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (University of California Press, 1999). 4. Smith, Stout, and Minkema, Eds. A Jonathan Edwards Reader (Yale University Press p. b., 2003) 5. C. H. Spurgeon. The SoulWinner Whitaker House, 1995) 6. Alcoholics Anonymous, fourth edition.
Mb 770 The Indigenous Church, Steven Ybarrola
Mb 770 The Indigenous Church, Steven Ybarrola
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Required Texts: David Hesselgrave and Edward Rommen, Contextualization: Meanings, Methods, and Models Lalsangkima Pachuau, Ethnic Identity and Christianity Lamin Sanneh (1989) Translating the Message Robert Schreiter (1985) Constructing Local Theologies
Me 630 Planting New Churches, Ronald K. Crandall
Me 630 Planting New Churches, Ronald K. Crandall
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READING REQUIREMENTS (25% of Grade) The following are required texts and a 1 and 1/2 to 2 page single spaced reading report must be completed on each: 1. 2. 2. Stuart Murray, Church Planting: Laying Foundations, 2001 (250 pages). Reading report due on October 3rd. Tom Jones, ed., Church Planting from the Ground Up, 2004 (350 pages). Reading report due on October 24th. Ed Stetzer, Planting Missional Churches, 2006 (350 pages). Reading report due on November 7th.
Do 620 The Person And Work Of Christ, Stephen A. Seamands
Do 620 The Person And Work Of Christ, Stephen A. Seamands
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TEXTBOOKS Paul Beasley-Murray, The Message of the Resurrection David Bryant, Christ is All! Gerrit Dawson, Jesus Ascended Jurgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ Stephen Seamands, Wounds that Heal John Stott, The Cross of Christ Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
Do 501 Basic Christian Theology, Stephen A. Seamands
Do 501 Basic Christian Theology, Stephen A. Seamands
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TEXTS: Thomas Oden, The Living God The Word of Life Life in the Spirit Gregory Boyd & Paul Eddy, Across the Spectrum Stephen Seamands, Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service
Do 670 United Methodist Theology, Lawrence W. Wood
Do 670 United Methodist Theology, Lawrence W. Wood
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REQUIRED TEXTS 1. L. Wood,The Meaning of Pentecost in Early Methodism, Rediscovering John Fletcher As John Wesley’s Vindicator and Designated Successor (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002). Chapters 11-16, pp. 223-385. Pneumatology has been a central focus of Asbury Theological Seminary since its very beginning. This corresponds to its emphasis upon Christian perfection. This book shows that the baptism with the Spirit and Pentecostal terminology were widely used in 19th Century American Methodism. The last chapters of this book explore this theme in Methodist history since Wesley. The first half of this book is about John Fletcher “pentecostalizing” John Wesley’s theology …
Do 690 Theology Of John Wesley, Allan Coppedge
Do 690 Theology Of John Wesley, Allan Coppedge
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Textbooks A. Required: John Wesley, Wesley’s Fifty-two Standard Sermons, ed. N. Burwash. (other editions acceptable) __________, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Kenneth Collins, The Scripture Way of Salvation. Harold Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification. Kenneth Collins, A Theological Journey. B. Recommended: Allan Coppedge, Shaping The Wesleyan Message. Kenneth Collins, A Faithful Witness. C. Requested: The Holy Bible (English Standard Version recommended) in class.
Is 501 Kingdom, Church, And World, Michael Pasquerello
Is 501 Kingdom, Church, And World, Michael Pasquerello
Syllabi
Required Reading: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together. Rodney Clapp, A Peculiar People. Ralph Wood, Contending For the Faith. Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered. Dorothy Day, A Long Loneliness. IS501 Small Group Packet (Wesley Readings). Available at Cokesbury.
Do 750 Tutorial In Christian Doctrine: Theology Of Discipleship, Allan Coppedge
Do 750 Tutorial In Christian Doctrine: Theology Of Discipleship, Allan Coppedge
Syllabi
TEXTBOOKS 1. Required: Allan Coppedge, The Biblical Principles of Discipleship Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism Bill Hull, The Disciple Making Pastor Allan Coppedge, and William Ury, Following Jesus: A Guidebook for Mature Discipleship. 2. Recommended: Leroy Eims, The Lost Art of Disciplemaking Betty Lee Skinner, Daws. 3. Requested: Holy Bible in class. A standard translation should be used: RSV, NKJ, NASB or the English Standard Version.
Bt 750 Christian Theology And The Bible, Anthony Thiselton
Bt 750 Christian Theology And The Bible, Anthony Thiselton
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Required Textbooks: 1. Daniel Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology (Grand Rapids & Cambridge: Eerdmans, 1991, paperback) ISBN 0-8028-0601-5, 312 pages. 2. Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology (volume 2, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, and Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994) pp. 136-464 (=329 pages). 3. Colin Gunton (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), paperback, 307 pages 1 4. One of these three: Either: Stanley J. Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei (Louisville & London: Westminster John Knox, 2001), hardback, 344 pages; Or: Jürgen Moltmann, The Spirit …
Bs 502 Introduction To Biblical Studies - 3, Ruth Anne Reese
Bs 502 Introduction To Biblical Studies - 3, Ruth Anne Reese
Syllabi
Required Reading: The New Testament (RSV or NRSV or a similar translation) DeSilva, David An Introduction to the New Testament. Downers Grove: IVP, 2004. Willimon, William. Shaped by the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.
Bt 605 Old Testament Theology, Lawson G. Stone
Bt 605 Old Testament Theology, Lawson G. Stone
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READING B. W. Anderson. Contours of Old Testament Theology. Fortress. Greer, Rowan and J. Kugel. Early Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986. Childs, Brevard S. Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. A survey of the theology of the OT that procedes by topics rather than historically or in canonical order. Childs, Brevard S. Bibilcal Theology: A Proposal. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. A brief analysis of the current problems of OT and biblical theology combined with a fresh argument for a canonical approach. Hayes John H. & F. Prussner. Old Testament Theology: Its history and Development. Westminster/John Knox. Additional …
Cd 510 Foundations In Christian Discipleship, Ellen L. Marmon
Cd 510 Foundations 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
Bs 501 Introduction To Biblical Studies I, David Loren Thompson
Bs 501 Introduction To Biblical Studies I, David Loren Thompson
Syllabi
Required Texts Bauer, David R. An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry. Hendrickson, 2003. Drane, John Introducing the Old Testament. Completely revised and updated. Fortress Press, 2001. Abbreviated IOT in the syllabus. Revised Standard Version of the Bible or New American Standard Bible or some other contemporary, formal (vs. dynamic) equivalence translation with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. NRSV and NIV are also fine. Thompson, David L. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1994. Gives a brief, non-technical overview of approach to “inductive biblical studies” commended by the class. (= BSTW)
Ch 500 Turning Points In Church History, Meesaeng Lee Choi
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)
Ch 501 Church History I, Meesaeng Lee Choi
Ch 501 Church History I, Meesaeng Lee Choi
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REQUIRED BOOKS � Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement, vol. 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Orbis Books, 2001). � John W. Coakley and Andrea Sterk, Readings in World Christian History, vol. 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Orbis Books, 2004). � Roger E. Olson, The Story of Christian Theology (InterVarsity Press, 1999). � St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000). � St. Benedict, The Rule of St. Benedict (The Liturgical Press, 1982). One of Two � Brother Yun and Paul Hattaway, The Heavenly Man (Grand Rapids, MI: Monarch Books, 2002) or …
Cd 660 Ym 660 Teaching The Whole Bible To Youth And Adults, Ellen L. Marmon
Cd 660 Ym 660 Teaching The Whole Bible To Youth And Adults, Ellen L. Marmon
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Required Texts 1. Bartholomew, Craig & Goheen, Michael. (2004). The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story. Baker Academic: Grand Rapids, Michigan. ISBN: 0-8010-2746-2 2. Jones, Tony. (2003). read, think, pray, live. Colorado Springs: NAVPRESS. ISBN: 1-57683-453-0 3. McBride, Neal F. (1990). How To Lead Small Groups. Colorado Springs: NAVPRESS. ISBN: 08910-93036 4. McIntosh, Gary L. (2004). One Church, Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Brothers. ISBN: 0-8010-9137-3 5. Willimon, William H. (1990). Shaped By The Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press. ISBN: 0-687-12656-8 6. Yount, William R. (1999). Called to …
Ch 651 The Sacraments In History, J. Steven O'Malley
Ch 651 The Sacraments In History, J. Steven O'Malley
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Required text for purchase: Bettenson, H., ed., Documents of the Christian Church (Oxford) Course packet (contains the orthodox liturgy and four other texts) Dix, Gregory, The Shape of the Liturgy (A & C Black) Thompson, Bard, Liturgies of the Western Church (pap.) (Meridian-World Books). Wybrew, Hugh, The Orthodox Liturgy
Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn
Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn
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Texts Required texts: Kinghorn, Kenneth, The Heritage of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. Those students who have read either of these books can arrange to read alternate materials. Recommended for present and future reference: Rowe, Kenneth E., Editor, United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 3rd edition, 1992.
Cl 553 United Methodist Polity And Discipline, Randy Jessen
Cl 553 United Methodist Polity And Discipline, Randy Jessen
Syllabi
REQUIRED TEXTS BIBLIOGRAPHY The Book of Discipline 2004. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2004. Thomas Edward Frank, Polity, Practice, and the Mission of the United Methodist Church Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997 (or later).
Cl 651 Ms 651 Women In Ministry, Catherine Stonehouse
Cl 651 Ms 651 Women In Ministry, Catherine Stonehouse
Syllabi
Reading Equal to the Task: Men and Women in Partnership, Ruth Haley Barton Two Views on Women in Ministry, James R. Beck and Craig L. Blomberg, Eds., Part Two (175- 327). Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry, Stanley J. Grenz with Denise Muir Kjesbo Not Without a Struggle: Leadership Development for African American Women in Ministry, Vashti M. McKenzie Origins of Difference: The Gender Debate Revisited, Elaine Storkey.
Ch 502 Church History Ii, J. Steven O'Malley
Ch 502 Church History Ii, J. Steven O'Malley
Syllabi
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 …