Academic Catalog 2022-2023

Christian Studies Minor

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Lower-Division Requirements
BIB 2040Reading Scripture Faithfully3
CMI 1055Christian Formation and Ministry3
PHL 2050God and Philosophy3
THE 2050Introduction to Christian Theology3
Upper-Division Requirements
Choose four (4) courses from the following:12
New Testament Books and Early Churches: Sermon, Letter, and Apocalypse
Old Testament Psalms and Wisdom Literature: Worship and Wisdom in a World of Suffering and Injustice
Jesus and the Gospels: Four Portraits of One Christ
The Letters of Paul: Faith, Hope, and Love Across Distance and Difference
Biblical Theology
Old Testament Torah and Israel's History: God's Story and God's People
Old Testament Prophets and the Holy Imagination: Power, Gender, Justice, and Economics
Special Studies in Bible
Seminar in Biblical Literature
Teaching and Preaching the Bible
Christian Care of Souls
Foundations for the Practice of Youth Ministry
Enacting Worship
Church as a Witness to the World
The Christian Gathering: Scripture, Baptism, and Eucharist
Leading in Ministry
The Church of the Nazarene: History and Polity
Compassionate Ministry in Local Context
Youth and Family Ministry
Special Studies in Christian Ministry
Logic
Plato and Aristotle
Descartes Through Hegel
Justice, Politics, and the Social World
Existential Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy and Art
Philosophy and the Sciences
Education and the Ethical Life
Alienation, Transformation, and Reconciliation in Film
Ethics, Responsibility, and Love
Christian Faith and the Natural Sciences (FE)
Christian and Religious Themes in Literature
The World's Faith Traditions
The Human Person and Theology and Psychology
Christ and the Church
Christian Ethics
The Ministry and Sermons of John Wesley
Three Traditions of Protestant Theology
Total Units24