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Unintended Outcomes, Curious Inventions & Misshapen Creatures: Juxtapositions Of Religious Belief And Faith-Formed Practice & The Renewed Case For The Educational Mission Of The Church, Mark A. Lamport

The Asbury Journal

Christianity is fundamentally a peculiar way of life. Christian initiation is the process a person goes through within a Christian community of being formed and transformed into a new being, modeled after the likeness of Christ. Yet, two facts need faced. First, after almost two thousand years after the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the vast majority of the world's population has not accepted the Gospel. Second, after almost two thousand years of performing baptisms in the church, the lives of the baptized are not significantly different than the lives of the non-baptized. Fact two explains fact one, but …

Cd 616 Discipleship And Development In Young And Middle Adulthood, Chris Kiesling

Syllabi

Carol Hoare, Erikson on Development in Adulthood. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions. San Francisco: Harper, 1990. (217 pages) Jeffrey Arnett, Emerging Adulthood. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. Charles Shedd, Transitions through Adulthood. Madeline L’Engel’s A Live Coal in the Sea.San Francisco, Harper, 1951. Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rythms. Downers Grove, Intervarsity Press, 2006.

Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Communication, Psychology, and Sociology are three leading academic disciplines engaged in the social scientific study of prayer, the spiritual communication between a believer(s) and God, but rarely do these disciplines collaborate in interdisciplinary prayer scholarship. Possibilities for interdisciplinary prayer research in a health context are explored through a review of the literature and academic interviews. Interdisciplinary linkages in the prayer-health context are organized in an integral "all-quadrant" theoretical model, and an assessment of the viability of interdisciplinary prayer-health research is considered.

Co 603 Orientation To Christian Approaches To Diagnosis And Treatment Planning, Tapiwa N. Mucherera

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Course Description (This description applies to all the Treatment Planning Courses) In order to function as a competent clinician, one must develop competence in diagnosing and effectively treating a variety of problems with which they are confronted. In order to do this one must be thoroughly familiar with a variety of treatment modalities. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Students will have an opportunity to become acquainted with material relevant to treatment issues both from a Christian historical perspective and current knowledge

Cl 613 Equipping The Laity, Stephen L. Martyn

Syllabi

The Course Reading list.

Co 520 A Syllabus And General Guide For Narrative Pastoral Counseling, Burrell D. Dinkins

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Brandt, Kevin M. (1997) Story As A Way Of Knowing, Kansas City: Sheed & Ward Dinkins, Burrell D. (2005) Narrative Pastoral Counseling, Xulon Press. (You can purchase this book from the Cokesbury Bookstore, Amazon.com, or from Burrell Dinkins. Gretz, Stanley J. (1996) A Primer On Postmodernism Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Co. Monk, Winslade, Crocket and Epston: (1997) Narrative Therapy in Practice: The Archeology of Hope, San Francisco, California: Jossey Bass. White, Michael and David Epston. (1990) Narrative Means To Therapeutic Ends, New York: W.W. Norton & company.

Ym 632 The Life Of The Youth Pastor, James Hampton

Syllabi

Jones, Tony. Soul Shaper. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. 227 pages MacDonald, Gordon. Ordering Your Private World. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002. 231 pages Miller, Donald. Blue Like Jazz. Thomas Nelson, 2003. 256 pages Peterson, Eugene. Under the Unpredictable Plant. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. 197 pages Prime, Derek, and Beggs, Allistair. On Being a Pastor: Understanding Our Calling and Work. Moody Publishers, 2006. 320 pages. (This text only required if taking class for 3 hours) Trull, Joe E. and Carter, James E. Ministerial Ethics (second edition). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004. 214 pages.

Sf 502 The Spiritual Life Of The Minister, Stephen L. Martyn

Syllabi

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course proposes to help students delve into and apply Christian spirituality to their everyday lives and ministries. Over a span of four months, we will swim in seven major spiritual streams: 1. Holy Leisure (the conditions necessary for a God-centered life); 2. Ministry From The Overflow (service that does not deplete); 3. The Well Ordered Life (balance in all things); 4. The Big Rocks (first things first on a daily basis); 5. Turning From Pride (humility); 6. Speaking The Truth In Love (spiritual direction); 7. Leading From Within A Family (team). All of these areas are essential …

Cl 616 Xl Leading Change, Charlotte Bates

Syllabi

Change inevitably comes, particularly when an organization experiences healthy growth. This course addresses dynamics including change, transition, innovation, chaotic systems and conflict. Emphasis will be given to the leader’s roles as catalyst, coach and counselor at the individual, group and organizational levels.

Cm 510 Foundations Of Campus Ministry (Reading List), Chris Kiesling

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Students who are following a vocational calling into campus ministry are encouraged to pursue the Master’s of Divinity degree. This course serves as one of four core electives meeting the Servant Ministry requirement in the Mdiv degree. The four CD courses meeting this requirement focus on a students’ projected ministerial role: CD 510 for Christian Educators; CD 511 for Pastors; CM 510 for Campus Ministers; and YM 510 for Youth Ministers. Thus the catalogue description for this course reads: CM 510 provides orientation and immersion into research-based understandings of young adult development and spiritual formation, and explores effective ministry approaches …

Cl 613 Equipping The Laity, Stephen L. Martyn

Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The Three Dimensions Of Scriptures, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

This article proposes a new model for understanding the ways that scriptures function. Several big media stories of recent years, such as those surrounding controversies over Ten Commandments monuments in U.S. courthouses and Qur’ans desecrated at Guantánomo Bay, involve the iconic function of scriptures. Yet contemporary scholarship on Jewish, Christian or Muslim scriptures is ill-prepared to interpret these events because it has focused almost all its efforts on textual interpretation. Even the increased attention to the performative function of scripture by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his students does not provide resources for understanding the iconic roles of scriptures. This paper …

An Adventist Missiological Response To Traditional Beliefs In Kenya, Festus Felix Gumbo

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Seventh-day Adventist Christians in Kenya struggle to practice pure biblical teaching because many still practice African traditional beliefs. Many traditional beliefs are inconsistent with biblical teachings. This problem has contributed to syncretism that has weakened the Adventist message in Kenya. Many of the church members follow traditional beliefs because they fear to be condemned by members in society. The traditional belief that says a dead person continues to live and can communicate with the family is still strongly supported by many people in Kenya. This traditional belief contradicts biblical teaching concerning the dead. Other traditional issues church members struggle …

Men Mentoring Women : The Impact Of Male Leaders On Women Entering Vocational Christian Ministry In The Church Of God, Jesse S. Mclain

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Cl 615, Christina Tellechea Accornero

Syllabi

This course is designed to examine the role of culture and cultural dynamics in the selection/emergence and functioning of leadership. Primary attention will be given to leadership dynamics within the multicultural North American context. Consideration will also be given to American theories and models and their usefulness in other cultural contexts.

Co 603 Orientation To Christian Approaches To Diagnosis And Treatment Planning, Virginia Todd Holeman

Syllabi

Entwistle, D. (2004). Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity: An introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations, and models of integration. Wipf & Stock Pub. ISBN: 159-244-7996

The Impact Of A Spiritual Leadership Program Based On Spiritual Disciplines On Leadership Competencies, Shih-Minh Kow

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

2008 Usd Fact Book, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

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