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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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Mw 770 Contemporary Cults/ New Religious Movements, Steven Tsoukalas Jan 2005

Mw 770 Contemporary Cults/ New Religious Movements, Steven Tsoukalas

Syllabi

Required Texts: Hexham, Irving, Stephen Rost, and John W. Morehead II, eds. Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004. Sire, James. Scripture Twisting: Twenty Ways the Cults Misread the Bible. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1980. Stark, Rodney, and William Sims Bainbridge. The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Tsoukalas, Steven. Masonic Rites and Wrongs: An Examination of Freemasonry. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1995. Tucker, Ruth. Another Gospel: Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.

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Mw 775 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck Jan 2005

Mw 775 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck

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Required Texts: David Bosch. A Spirituality of the Road. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2000 (1979). Paul Hiebert. Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999. Richard Plantinga, ed. Christianity and Plurality: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Readings as assigned by instructor, including Wesleyan approach to pluralism.

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Mw 780 Comparative Missiology, Terry C. Muck Jan 2005

Mw 780 Comparative Missiology, Terry C. Muck

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Required Texts: Hitchcock, Susan. Geography of Religion. Washington: National Geographic, 2004. Montgomery, Robert. The Diffusion of Religions: A Sociological Perspective. NY: University Press of America, 1996. Park, Chris C. Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and Religion. London: Routledge, 1994. Smart, Ninian, ed. Atlas of the World’s Religions. Oxford, 1999. Readings as assigned by instructor

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Mw 775 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck Jan 2004

Mw 775 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck

Syllabi

Richard Plantinga, ed. Christianity and Plurality: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 379 pages. ISBN: 0-631-20915-8 (paperback) Wesley Pluralism Packet David Bosch. A Spirituality of the Road. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2000 (1979). 92 pages. ISBN: 1-57910-795-8 (paperback) Paul Hiebert. Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, International, 1999. 135 pages. ISBN: 1-56338-259-8 (paperback)

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Mw 725 Primal And Folk Religions, Eunice L. Irwin Jan 2004

Mw 725 Primal And Folk Religions, Eunice L. Irwin

Syllabi

Hefner, Robert, ed. 1993 Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on A Great Transformation. Berkeley, University of California Press. Hiebert, Paul G., Daniel Shaw & Tite Tienou 1999 Understanding Folk Religion: A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices. Grand Rapids: Baker Books. Kraft, Marguerite G. 1995 Understanding Spiritual Power: A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Stewart, Charles and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994 Syncretism/ Anti-Syncretism: The politics of religious synthesis. London and New York: Routledge. 5th Required Reading (Select ONE below or propose one to instructor) Ching, Julia 1993Chinese Religions. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis …

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Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder Jan 2004

Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder

Syllabi

The Community of the King, rev. ed. (2004), by Howard Snyder The Other Six Days, by R. Paul Stevens Natural Church Development, by Christian Schwarz Churches That Make a Difference, by Ronald Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh

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Mw 770 Contemporary Cults, Steven Tsoukalas Jan 2004

Mw 770 Contemporary Cults, Steven Tsoukalas

Syllabi

Hexham, Irving, and Karla Poewe. Understanding Cults and New Religions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986. Sire, James. Scripture Twisting: Twenty Ways the Cults Misread the Bible. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1980. Stark, Rodney, and William Sims Bainbridge. The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Tsoukalas, Steven. Masonic Rites and Wrongs: An Examination of Freemasonry. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1995. Tucker, Ruth. Another Gospel: Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.

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Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder Jan 2004

Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder

Syllabi

The Community of the King, rev. ed. (2004), by Howard Snyder The Other Six Days, by R. Paul Stevens Natural Church Development, by Christian Schwarz Churches That Make a Difference, by Ronald Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh

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Mw 725 Primal And Folk Religions, Eunice L. Irwin Jan 2003

Mw 725 Primal And Folk Religions, Eunice L. Irwin

Syllabi

Burnett, David 2000 World of the Spirits: A Christian Perspective on Traditional and Folk Religions. London: Monarch Books. Hiebert, Paul a., Daniel Shaw & TiteTienou 1999 Understanding Folk Religion: A Christian Response to Popular Beliefs and Practices. Grand Rapids: Baker Books. Kraft, Marguerite G. 1995 Understanding Spiritual Power: A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry. Maryknoll, N. Y .: Orbis Books. 4d1 ReQuired Reading (Select ONE below or propose one to instructor) Bediako, Kwame 1994 Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non- Western Religion. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Ching, Julia 1993 Chinese Religions. Marykno11, N. Y.: Orbis Books. …

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Mw 775 830 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck Jan 2003

Mw 775 830 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck

Syllabi

Readings Richard Plantinga, ed. Christianity and Plurality: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 379 pages. ISBN: 0-631-20915-8 (paperback) Wesley Pluralism Packet David Bosch. A Spirituality of the Road. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2000 (1979). 92 pages. ISBN: 1-57910-795-8 (paperback) Paul Hiebert. Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, International, 1999. 135 pages. ISBN: 1-56338-259-8 (paperback)

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Me 770 Ms 635 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder Jan 2003

Me 770 Ms 635 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder

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Decoding the Church: Mapping the DNA of Christ’s Body, by Howard Snyder The Other Six Days, by R. Paul Stevens Natural Church Development, by Christian Schwarz Churches That Make a Difference, by Ronald Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh

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Mi 725 Survey Of Renewal Movements, Howard A. Snyder Jan 2003

Mi 725 Survey Of Renewal Movements, Howard A. Snyder

Syllabi

Required Texts Orr, J. Edwin. Campus Aflame: A History of Evangelical Awakenings in Collegiate Communities. Wheaton, IL: International Awakenings Press, 1994. 286 pp. Rausch, Thomas P. Radical Christian Communities. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2002. 216 pp. Riss, Richard M. A Survey of Twentieth-Century Revival Movements in North America. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1997. 202 pp. Snyder, Howard A. Signs of the Spirit: How God Reshapes the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989; Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1997. 336 pp.

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Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder Jan 2002

Me 770 Renewing The Church For Mission, Howard A. Snyder

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(1) Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wineskins Today, by Howard Snyder (2) The New Reformation, by Greg Ogden (3) Natural Church Development, by Christian Schwarz (4) Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, by Jim Cymbala

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Mw 775 830 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck Jan 2001

Mw 775 830 Christian Witness And Other Faiths, Terry C. Muck

Syllabi

Wesley Pluralism Packet (on reserve in library—students may copy) Richard Plantinga, ed. Christianity and Plurality: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 379 pages. Christianity and the Religions: A Biblical Theology of World Religions. Edward Rommen and Harold Netland, editors. Pasadena: Wm Carey Library, 1995. 274 pages. S. Wesley Ariarajah. The Bible and People of Other Faiths. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1985.

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A Sufficiently Republican Church: George David Cummins And The Reformed Episcopalians In 1873, Allen C. Guelzo Apr 1995

A Sufficiently Republican Church: George David Cummins And The Reformed Episcopalians In 1873, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

In 1873 George David Cummins, the assistant bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Kentucky, rocked the complacency of the Protestant Episcopal Church by resigning his Kentucky episcopate and founding an entirely new Episcopal denomination, the Reformed Episcopal Church. Schismatic movements in American religion are hardly a novelty. Still, Cummins and his movement occupy a peculiar position in both the history of American religion and the cultural history of the Gilded Age. Unlike the wave of church schisms before the Civil War, the Reformed Episcopal schism of 1873 had no clear relation to sectional issues. And unlike the fundamentalist schisms of …

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