September 14, 2020 – September 14, 2021 Offered by Vancouver School Of Theology https://vst.edu/programs/isp-dts/ VST is called to educate and form thoughtful, engaged and generous Christian leaders for the church and the world in the 21st century.  This Diploma is designed primarily to provide and/or augment local training for ordained ministry, but it would also provide …
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September 14, 2020 – September 14, 2021 Offered by Vancouver School Of Theology   https://vst.edu/programs/gdts/ VST is called to educate and form thoughtful, engaged and generous Christian leaders for the church and the world in the 21st century.  The Graduate Diploma in Theological Studies is a post-graduate diploma designed to provide opportunities for interested persons to …
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Code: HOM500 Dates: September 14, 2020 – December 4, 2020 on Thursdays Time: 2:00 pm for 3 hours At least once a week the preacher stands to address the congregation. What does the preacher say? How? On what sources do they draw—whether ancient or contemporary, sacred or secular, communal or personal? What’s the goal here? …
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Code: PT611 Dates: September 16, 2020, September 30, 2020, October 14, 2020, November 4, 2020, and November 25, 2020 Time: 2 – 5pm Purpose The purpose of this course is to provide students with concrete and theologically-grounded tools for project development. With their Capstone Projects as their primary vehicle, PT 611 students will learn to …
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Extended and full-time units. CPE students only. Classes at hospital with CPE supervisor. Program Description: Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is training designed to help develop the skills required to provide care which is centered around issues of faith, meaning, values and connection.  Learning occurs through direct clinical experience, use of reflective tools, didactic input, conversations …
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Code: PT610 Dates: September 21, 2020, October 5, 2020, October 19, 2020, November 9, 2020, and November 23, 2020 Time: 9am – 12pm Situated on the threshold of professional ministry, at the crossroads of theory and practice, the purpose of this senior integrative seminar is to deepen the student’s capacity for leadership in faith communities …
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THEO 602 This course is a reflection in faith on the realities of Christian doctrine.  Under the general heading of “salvation,” we will explore four major areas of Christian doctrine: last things (eschatology), the work of Christ and our appropriation of it (soteriology), the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), and the church (ecclesiology).  We will do so …
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HIST 502 (A) (Pre-recorded Distance Education Option Available) History of Christianity II is designed as a survey of the history of Christianity from the end of the Sixteenth Century through to the present day.  The title History of Christianity, rather than Church History, is designed to suggest that the course is concerned not just with …
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BIBL 610 (A) (Pre-recorded Distance Education Option Available) What kind of texts are we dealing with in Genesis, and what difference should this make to our interpretation of them? Are they myth, or history, or both/neither? Have Christians been right to see what they have seen in these books over the centuries? What are the …
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BIBL 561 This course is also offered as THEO 561 (A) (Pre-recorded Distance Education Option Available) A guess worth exploring is that Paul’s letter to the Ephesians was a circular letter to churches in Asia Minor, written after Colossians was composed, and that the letter to the Laodiceans which the Colossians were to acquire and …
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