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FALL 2008 Courses
SMCLX 611A Pastoral Care: Ministry to Persons Throughout the Life Cycle
This course explores a ministry of care throughout the life of individuals and the congregation in normal movements and in times of stress or crisis. Attention is given to creating a vision for shepherding a congregation, developing care skills and identifying a biblical/theological foundation for this ministry. The course will focus on both theory and practice using an action-reflection mode of learning. Participants will need a context in which to participate in care giving (congregation, chaplaincy, school, etc.).
Instructor: Marcus Smucker
Credits: 3 SH
Dates: Introduction: Tuesday, September 2, 6-9 p.m. Monthly: Friday evening, 5-9 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. September 12 & 13; October 10 & 11; November 7 & 8; December 5 & 6
Cost: For credit – $1032; For non-credit – $195
Location: Lancaster, Pa.
CMX 511A Active Nonviolence: Nurturing Peaceful Transformation
This course will explore the use of active nonviolence as a means of personal and social transformation consistent with the Anabaptist understanding of the Gospel’s call to liberation, justice and peace. The course materials will cover the theology, theory, capacities and practice of nonviolence. The class will be participatory, drawing on multimedia resources to stimulate discussion.
Instructor: Jon Rudy
Credits: 3
Cost: For credit – $1032; For non-credit – $195
Location 1 and Dates: Biblical Seminary, Hatfield, Pa.Weekly on Monday evenings, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Sept. 8, 15, 22, 29; Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17; Dec. 1, 8, 15
Location 2 and Dates: Lancaster, Pa. Weekly on Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14, 22, 28; Nov. 4, 11, 18; Dec. 2, 9, 16
CMX 631A Congregational Revitalization
How can a congregation that has plateaued or declined turnaround so it becomes missional? The course focuses on Biblical principles as well as contemporary congregations that are experiencing revitalization. Time will be given for the students to relate this study to their own congregational context.
Instructor: David Eshleman
Credits: 3 SH
Dates: Weekly on Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Sept. 11, 18, 25; Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Nov. 6, 13, 20; Dec. 4, 11, 18
Cost: For credit – $1032; For non-credit – $195
Location: Lancaster, Pa.
Coming in Spring 2009
- Women and Men in the Bible and Church (3 credits)
- Systematic Theology I (3 credits)
- Good News, Culture and Anabaptism (3 credits)
- Church Planting: Layinng Foundations (1 credit)
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EMS Distance Learning
Tuition: Course tuition Distance Learning is $432 per credit hour.
Fall 2008
Ethics and Nonviolence: Sermon on the Mount
This new course in Christian Ethics takes a deep look at Jesus' teaching and the ethics of the New Testament through the lens of the Sermon on the Mount. Jewish backgrounds of that teaching, resonance in the rest of the Gospels and other parts of the New Testament, and the heritage of its understanding down through the centuries of the Christian church are focal themes of the course. Current applications in understandings of peacemaking at different levels conclude this study. Students will do inductive study of the Gospel texts, some review of Old Testament backgrounds, research on thinkers in Christian history who advanced our understanding of the message, and some evaluation and responses to current practices of peacemaking. The course emphasizes group interaction and direct approaches to the English text of the Scriptures.
- Professor: N Gerald Shenk
- Cost: $1296
- Credit Hours: 3
- Aug 26- Dec 14
New Testament: Text in Context
The New Testament: Text in Context course is a basic introduction to the New Testament. The first part of the course will focus on the world of the New Testament period noting the historical, political, social and cultural setting into which Christ came and the New Testament scriptures were written. The second part of the course is a study of the New Testament itself. Students will read and do inductive study of the various NT books.
- Professor: Dorothy Jean Weaver
- Cost: $1296
- Credit Hours: 3
- Aug 26- Dec 14
Spring and Summer 2009 Distance Courses
