Spring 2017/Sacramento
IS501
Oden
IS501: PRACTICES OF WORSHIP (4 Units: 160 hours). Patrick Oden.
DESCRIPTION: Christian practices constitute the Christian life. The combined Christian practices of vocational formation, worship, community, and mission facilitate the integration of personal, spiritual, academic, and global formation into the vocational coherence of a Christian leader through reflection, relationships, and practices. IS501 is an integrative course that explores the identity and practices of Christian worship and prayer as a people called, gathered, and sent by God. Together, professor and students study and enact historic Christian disciplines necessitated by this distinctive identity (Sabbath-keeping, confession, praise, communion, enacting the prophetic, gathering & sending, prayer, and reading & proclaiming the Word) in order to form students who demonstrate capacities to cultivate a theologically reflective practice of Christian discipleship.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: (1) Students will have demonstrated capacities to critically reflect on their current and past experiences of Christian practices of worship and prayer. (2) Students will have demonstrated through participation in local contexts the capacity to engage in activities and exercises related to Christian spiritual disciplines and practices of worship and prayer. (3) Students will have demonstrated capacities to engage scripture, tradition, and contemporary resources to reflect theologically on historic and personal practices of worship and prayer. (4) Students will have articulated how practices of worship and prayer impact their response to the Central Integration Question (CIQ) and will identify exercises, habits, and disciplines to embody these practices within their sociocultural context.
COURSE FORMAT: This is a hybrid+ course, meaning that it is a ten-week course with nine weeks of online instruction (with at least 12 instructional hours) and one week of classroom instruction during week six of the quarter (28 hours which includes 8 hours of required synchronous and/or asynchronous participation in vocation and formation groups) for a total of 40 instructional hours. The week of classroom instruction will include four hours daily of lecture and discussion, as well as additional lunch meetings and evening sessions (required in hybrid+ courses).
REQUIRED READING/VIEWING: 1100 pp. of required reading and/or the equivalent in viewing.
Caccamo, James F., and Todd Johnson, and Lester Ruth. Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource for Students and Leaders. Brazos Press, 2006. ASIN: 1587432951, Pub. Price $27.99 [10 hours of viewing assigned]. (available to purchase online at the Archives bookstore).
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices. Eerdmans, 2007. ISBN: 978-0802828538, Pub. Price $24.00 [200 pp.]. [10 hours]
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Living God and the Fullness of Life. WJK, 2015. ISBN: 978-0664261610, Pub. Price $30.00 [200 pp.]. [10 hours].
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory. Kregel, 2006. ISBN: 978-0825435782, Pub. Price: $35.99 [200 pp. of reading]. [10 hours].
The Holy Bible. CEB, NRSV, and TNIV translations are acceptable [50 pp.]. [3 hours].
Additional readings drawn from contemporary and historical resources accessible through online links or provided through e-reserve. [7 hours].
CORE PRACTICES:
Sabbath-Keeping
Moltmann, Jürgen, The Living God
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Selected texts from the Philokalia, v. 2
Confession
Moltmann, Jürgen, The Living God
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Praise
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Living God
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource
Gathering & Sending
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource
Reading & Proclaiming the Word
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource
Prayer
Coakley, Sarah “Living into the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: The Trinity, Prayer, and Sexuality”
Moltmann, Jürgen, The Living God
Cassian, John. Conferences 9-10
Communion
Moltmann, Jürgen, The Living God
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource
Enacting the Prophetic.
Moltmann, Jürgen, The Living God
Ross, Allen. Recalling the Hope of Glory.
Farhadian, Charles E. ed. Christian Worship Worldwide.
Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource
RECOMMENDED READING:
Beck, T. David. Luminous : Living the Presence and Power of Jesus. IVP, 2013. ISBN: 978-0830835805, Pub. Price $16.00.
Bolsinger, Tod E. It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives. Brazos, 2004. ISBN: 978-1587430893, Pub. Price $22.00.
Coakley, Sarah. The New Asceticism. Bloomsbury, 2015. ISBN: 978-1441103222, Pub. Price $24.95.
Jennings, Theodore W. The Liturgy of Liberation: The Confession and Forgiveness of Sins. Exploration Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0913552735, Pub. Price $10.00.
Maynard-Reid, Pedrito U. Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean & Hispanic Perspectives. InterVarsity Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0830815791, Pub. Price $20.00.
Pierson, Mark. The Art of Curating Worship : Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader. Sparkhouse, 2010. ISBN: 978-1451400847, Pub. Price $16.99.
Van Opstal, Sandra Maria. The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World. IVP, 2016. ISBN: 978-0830841295, Pub. Price $18.00.
White, James F. Introduction to Christian Worship. 3rd ed. Abingdon, 2000. ISBN: 978-0687091096, Pub. Price $33.99.
Yee, Russell. Worship on the Way : Exploring Asian North American Christian Experience. Judson Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0817017071, Pub. Price $17.99.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
1100 pages reading and videos, including at least 50 pages of biblical text [This assignment is related to learning outcome #3]. [52 hours].
Online, Classroom and Vocation Formation Group (VFG) Participation: Students will participate in active learning to foster understanding of and capacity for engaging in theologically-informed reflection in the classroom and through participation in Vocation Formation Groups. (10%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, #2, #3]. [12 hours+20 hours+8 hours].
Online Forum Interaction: for each practice, students will post weekly 250+ word reading integration posts and responses (30% of final grade). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, #2, #3]. [15 hours].
Directed Exercises and Integrative Reflection: Student will participate in disciplines and exercises outside of the classroom over the course of the quarter related to the core practices of the course and reflect on these experiences in a way that integrates experience with course content. (20%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #2 and #3] [25 hours].
Autobiography: Students will create an autobiography related to practices of worship and prayer (5%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1]. [2 hours].
Presentation: With partners, prepare a one hour interactive expression of a course discipline for one week’s topic discipline posted online. (15%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #3]. [6 hours preparation and development].
Final Integrative Assignment: Integration paper that reflects theologically on the practices of this course and their implications for the student’s response to the CIQ and the exercises, habits, and disciplines in their current Rule of Life. (20%). [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1, #3, and #4]. [20 hours].
PREREQUISITES: None. Recommended in first year of study.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets a core integrative requirement in the 120 MDiv Program and the 80 MAT, 80 MATM, 80 MAICS Programs (Fall 2015).
FINAL EXAMINATION: None