Evening School Winter 2008

Mondays

John Sutherland
BCom (Hon), MBA, (Queen’s University), MA, (Trinity Divinity School)

Business Ethics

APPL/INDS 559: 3 graduate credit hours

This course will examine various frameworks for ethical analysis and how they can be applied to business ethical dilemmas.

Bruce Marchfelder
Writer, Director, Producer. Head of the Directors’ Program, Vancouver Film School.
BA (Haverford College), MA (Yale University).

EXPLORATIONS OF FAITH IN FILM IN WORLD CINEMA

INDS 508: 2 or 3 graduate credit hours

In this course, we explore the revelatory kinship of theology and film. Our approach will be historical, studying representative works of international filmmakers whose accomplished use of the language of film—its grammar of light, sound, setting, and montage—result in motion pictures that have the power to evoke the transcendent, to inspire faith and create occasions for divine encounter.

Tuesdays

Mark Davies
Pastoral Studies, Regent College; Erb/Gullison Professor of Family Ministries, Carey Theological College; BA (Guelph), MDiv (North American Baptist Divinity School, PhD (Alberta)

SOUL OF MINISTRY I

APPL 301/APPL 500: 2 graduate credit hours

This course is designed to help students explore some of the critical dynamics of ministry. The over-arching goal is to help in the life-long process of identity, giftedness and of candidate ministry. challenges challenges identity church of effective spirituality. our vocational discernment, giving students a framework for the rest of their program at Regent. Students will explore issues concerning their call to ministry, their sense of identity, their ability to relate to others and their own spiritual journey with Christ. This will be achieved through a combination of forums, lectures, interviews, and small group work.

N.B. Soul of Ministry is intended exclusively for those students seriously considering entry into the Master of Divinity program. It is a prerequisite for entrance into the candidacy stage of the MDiv program and APPL 690 Supervised Ministry.

Wednesdays

Ross Hastings
Associate Professor, Mission Studies. Senior Pastor, Peace Portal Alliance. BSc (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), MCS (Regent College), Phd (Chemistry – Queen’s), Phd candidate (University of St. Andrews)

EMPOWERING THE CHURCH FOR
FIRST WORLD RE-EVANGELIZATION

APPL 610: 3 graduate credit hours

This course has in mind the empowerment of the church in urban centers for mission and ministry. It recognizes the cultural, ethnic and social diversity of contemporary cities and the challenges this holds for effective witness and service. It is also cognizant of the internal challenges facing the church with its religious consumer mentality, its lack of a corporate missional identity and its cultural captivity. This course presents the fundamental missional identity of the church and its call to be the servant of God’s kingdom purposes. It will ground this missional identity and kingdom vision in the doctrine of the triune God. From this starting point, in the context of expositions from the book of Acts, the course explores models of the church, strategies for effective witness and service, themes in holistic mission and the contours of a missional spirituality. These themes are explored within the setting of the challenges, problems and possibilities of our urban environments.

Loren Wilkinson
Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy. BA (Wheaton), MA (Johns Hopkins), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Syracuse)

THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION

INDS 560: 2 or 3 graduate credit hours or 2 audit hours

Our intention in this class is to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the Christian Gospel and the human imagination: that is, all of those ways of expression and communication which depend primarily on images. “Images” do not refer only to the visual, but to any meaning-ful appeal to the senses. So another name for the course might be “Christian aesthetics”. We are concerned not only with “the arts”, but also with the life of the senses generally, and how it relates to our life in Christ. The opposite of “aesthetic” is not “rational” or “logical”: it is rather “an-aesthetic”. And we are often guilty of making our faith both anaesthetic and antiseptic: uncomfortable with the body, with the senses, and with all of those works which address our humanity through the senses. Any Christian who lives in and through a body is encouraged to take the course.

PAUL WILLIAMS
David J. Brown Family Associate Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership. MA, MSc (Oxford), MCS (Regent College)

R. Paul Stevens
Professor Emeritus, Marketplace Theology and Leadership, Regent College.

Gray Poehnell
Sessional Lecturer, Marketplace Theology. Partner, Ergon Communications. Consultant, Vocationall Resources. BSc, MA NT (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School).

VOCATION , WORK & MINISTRY

APPL/INDS 573: 2 or 3 graduate credit hours

This course is a reflective experience in discernment of the way you have been made and the path to which the Creator and Shepherd of your life is leading. While some of the application will concern finding or remaining in suitable employed work, the emphasis will be larger and deeper than finding the right job. In today’s world most people are in fairly continuous vocational transition. But the approach to the weekend will take the largest understanding of calling or vocation: the invitation of God to live and work wholeheartedly and fruitfully. There will be a balance of teaching, small group interaction. Handouts, inventories and work sheets will be provided.

Thursdays

Donald J. Curry

CROSS-CULTURAL MISSION & ISLAM

APPL 595: 3 graduate credit hours

This course will introduce the student to the origins, growth and worldwide influence of the religion of Islam. Source texts including the Qur’an (English translation by Yousuf ‘Ali) and Hadith (sayings) will be studied as well as the practice of Muslim piety, the varied cultural expressions of the Muslim faith and implications for Christian witness and worship. The format of the evening sessions will include worship, prayer, small group discussion and lectures as well as visits to both Sunni and Shia mosques.