FLORIDA CENTER FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDIES Miami & Orlando

"Students attending classes by WebEx IIIllst be pre-approved anti complete a technology orientation.

Miami Campus & Webe.r Dates: Mav 1/ -June 29 Times: Tuesdavs and TlllIrsdavs 4:00 - 7:00 pm

Miami Camplls & Webe.r Dates: Mav 10 - June 29 (I/O class May 31)

SUMMER 2010 Semester

Times: Mondars 5:00 - 9:00 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Miami Campus & Webex Dates: - Mar 15 -.- June 26 (no class May 29) Times:-§alurdavs 9:00 5:00 om

Supervised experience in a clinical setting

Dates: TBA Times: TBA (Advanced students only, requires prior approval of Associate Dean)

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ELECTIVE

REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN April 15 online at www.fcts.edu. A usemame and password are required. Courses may be taken for credit or, with the Dean's permission, for audit. Credit tuition is $360.00 per credit hour. Audit fee is $180.00 per credit hour. All students are required to pay a $100.00 registration fee regardless of the number of courses being taken for credit or audit. An application fee 0[$100.00 is required of first-time students (a one-time only charge) and an activities fee of $100 per year.

Florida Center for Theological Studies - Miami Campus-based Summer of2010 - Mondays, 5.00-9.00pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7.00-9.00pm M.Div. requirement GR 110 - 4 Credit Hours

Essentials of New Testament GR€€K Hellenistic Language & Culture for Transfornlative Ministry

Elias Gunsaulus Bouboutsis, Ph.D., Instructor Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 4.30-6.00pm dialogian@yahoo.com

Catalogue Description: An introduction to the Koine dialect which was commonly used in the Greek-speaking world from the time of Alexander the Great through the fifth century. Koine Greek is the language of the New Testament. This beginner's course will present the forms of the Greek language, including the fundamentals of Greek grammar, sentence structure and syntax, to help the student familiarize himself or herself with tools for exegesis. This course is normally offered in the summer term.

Special Emphases: While providing these necessary elements, this particular offering­by a native Greek speaker - will stress the historical, spiritual and socio-cultural world of the East Mediterranean basin in late antiquity, which finds expression in the denotative/non-literalist Hellenistic idiom of the Septuagint and New Testament. Linking this premodern culture-mix to our own, this offering will focus on pastoral application of biblical Greek language and culture, particularly as that application occurs in exegesis and homeletic exposition. Hence, appreciable time will be spent on working with original language texts, in preparation and direct application oflearning to communal worship. Finally, this course will use and foreground the native/period, rather than the 'ruling' Erasmian pronunciation typically imposed upon Hellenistic Greek in the western academy.

Requirements & Grading: Preparation, regular class attendance with participation, and demonstration of 'real ministry' application of learning will be focal. Participants will be graded as follows: 113 on prepared (including written. assignments), participatory class attendance; 113 on seven weekly quizzes; 113 on word study-based sermon course project, due at midterm, Monday, 7 June, 2010. Note that due to immanent transition to St. Thomas University, no incompletes will be offered this quarter. Academic integrity is presumed; presenting another' s work as one's own will not be tolerated. Any failure to cite quotation or substantial paraphrase will result in returned paper, one full grade-point deduction and required rewrite.

Alternative Modes of Attendance: It is strongly recommended that physical attendance, at the Miami be the rule. Attendance at the Miami campus class is expected for all tri­county (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach) residents, and strongly encouraged for exurban (Monroe, Collier, Lee and Martin) residents. Participants who feel that they are unable to be physically present at the Miami campus will need to negotiate this matter

with instructor. Regarding off-campus participation, these students will need to provide adequate technology for participation, including webcam, Skype and back-up phone, and a fax machine for timely submission of hand-written materials. The Seminary will make every effort to provide Webex connectivity and access, but it is the off-campus student's responsibility to have adequate technology to realize real-time attendance and participation.

Schedule & Content of Class Meeting/Units

10 May: Introduction. Alphabet and pronunciation. Erasmian and Indigenous language issues; Scribal Errors and Pronunciation. Epistemology and Methodology. Con (text) and Intercon(text). Greek Word Study-based Sermon Project.

11 May: Croy, Lesson 2. Introduction to Hellenistic language(s) and culture(s). The world of the 'Hellenistic Near East.'

13 May: Croy, Lesson 3. Indo-European and Afro-Semetic language families and linkages. Greek Language Ethos cf. Hebrew and Latin' Siblings. Quiz 1.

17 May: Croy, Lessons 4-5. ' The Septuagint as transcultural text.

18 May: Croy, Lesson 6. Cultural (Inter)Context continued.

20 May: Croy, Lesson 7. Quiz 2.

24 May: Croy, Lessons 8-9. Pre-Hellenic roots, Dorian, Attic and Demotic/Koine development.

25 May: Croy, Lesson 10. Original Language Word Study-based Sermon Workshop.

27 May: Croy, Lesson 11. Quiz 3.

1 June: Croy, Lesson 12. Cultural (Inter)Context continued.

3 June: Croy, Lesson 13. Quiz 4.

7 June: MIDTERM. Sermon Project due (in written format).

8 June: Croy, Lesson 14.

10 June: Croy, Lesson 15. Quiz 5.

14 June: Croy, Lessons 16-17. Neurolinguistic insights. Denotative and connotative languages. Constitutional non-literalism of Hellenistic idiom.

15 June: Croy, Lesson 18. Constitutional Non-literalism and Translation.

17 June: Croy, Lesson 19. Quiz 6.

21 June: Croy, Lessons 20-21. Post-Structural understandings - languages as thought systems. Linear and Spiral thought and language.

22 June: Croy, Lesson 22. Metaphysics, Poetics, Aesthetics. Translation, Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Hellenic cultural contexts.

24 June: Croy, Lesson 23. Quiz 7.

28 June: Croy, Lesson 24. Word-endings and idea categories. Exposition and Homiletics.

29 June: 'Greek Revival Day' - Preaching of Sermon Projects. Conclusions.

Required Texts & Materials

Kurt Aland et ai, eds., The Greek New Testament. New York: United Bible Societies, 1998.

Croy, N. Clayton. A Primer of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999 or later edition.

J oumal for weekly lectionary work and pastoral reflection.

Recommended - General Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards, Visual Education edition.

Recommended - Spanish-Speakers Lacueva, Francisco trans. Nuevo Testamento Interlineal Griego-Espano!. Barcelona: Editorial Clie, 1984.

Additional Resources

Aune, David, The New Testament in its Literary Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.

BalTett, C.K., ed., The New Testament Background: Writings from Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire that Illuminate Christian Origins. San Francisco: Harper, 1987.

Black, David, It's Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

Dana, H.A. and Mantey, Julius. Gramatica Griega del Nuevo Testamento. El Paso: Casa Bautista, 1997.

Ehrman, Bart, The New Testament: An Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. New York: Oxford, 2000.

Fee, Gordon, New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2002.

Hadjiantoniou, George, Leaming the Basics of New Testament Greek. Chattanooga: AMG,1998.

Jeffers, James, The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1999.

Kee, Howard, The New Testament in Context: Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall , 1984.

Koester, Helmut, History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995.

Lust, J. et aI, A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1992.

Metzger, Bruce, Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

Morrison, C. and Barnes, D., New Testament Word Lists for Rapid Reading of the Greek Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.

Moulton, J.H. and Milligan, G., Vocabulary ofthe Greek New Testament. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997.

Segall a, Giuseppe, Panoramas del Nuevo Testamento. Navarra: Editorial Verbo Divino, 1989.

Webb, Joseph and Kysar, Robert, Greek for Preachers. St. Louis: Chalice, 2002.

Collections/Journals

Ancient Christian Commentaries on Scripture. Journal of Biblical Archeology Semeia (SBL).

Ministry as Worship and Preaching Summer 2010 P. T.200

Dr. Laurie Kraus Office: 305666-8586 Home 305 365-9889

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Course Description

Our work this term will explore the ways in which ministry is expressed through preaching and worship, the heart of Christian life in community. It is not simply a "class on preaching," though the mechanics and practice of preaching will be an important part of what we do. Equally vital will be learning about liturgy-"the work of the people' in worship, and how the creation and flow of liturgy in worship serves an expressive, as well as a constitutive and prophetic role in the life of the congregation. The real world of ministry--including pulpit ministry-- is a multi-layered, dynamic place, a com;tantly changing process engaging the whole person of the minister, and the totality of the minister's communities. It involves the practitioner's integrity in relationships and personal conduct; it calls for a creative engagement with the inner world of spirituality as with the outer world of church and community; it challenges his/her skills, abilities, and imagination; engaging a soul-full connection with God, self, the human condition, and the Creation.

In our work together, we will honor the variety and diversity of the Christian community as it is represented in culture, gender, ethnicity, theology and denominational practice.

The course will be both theoretical and practical. In the service of worship, elements of prayer, music, bible and the word proclaimed make up the content of what we offer to God as our "reasonable service." We will examine the heritage and teaching of the church; explore and develop skills for preaching in both the pulpit and the larger rninistry context; and probe our own lives and the lives of others in seeking to hear, and faithfully communicate, a word from God in the preaching act. Liturgy is the expressive form that the elements of worship take on in their journey through the people toward the heart of God. Whether highly formal or entirely spontaneous, the liturgies of the church both express and shape the context in which we worship as well as the meaning of what we believe and practice. This course will explore theology of worship, the roots behind particular worship styles in a multicultural environment, and the forms and movements of varieties of liturgies. A significant portion of class time will be spent pursuing the "ways and means" of liturgy in a "workshop" environment, developing and demonstrating liturgies that may more fully express the unique faith and character of particular worshipping congregations.

Class sessions will be held on Satnrdays in May and June, beginning May 15 and concluding June 26. Saturday classes will be from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Since preaching and worship are practical disciplines, the physical attendance of all students is expectcd for all Saturday classes. Web x arrangements must be approved by the professor.

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Schedule

ADVANCE ASSIGNMENTS

Before you come to the first class, please read and write a 2-3 page reaction paper on Barbara Brown Taylor's book The Preaching Life. Bring the text and paper to class on 5115, and be prepared to discuss.

*prepare a five to seven mill ute sermon responding to the context of a national or significallt local disaster (imagine this disaster has just struck your community, and structure this message as if it is to be preached to a community still in shock or disarray.) Direct this sermon at a gathering centered in your local congregation, but open to the larger community. Use a Psalm as your textual base. We will present these homilies on Sept 19 in the colltext of discussion around the role of preaching and worship in general, and as a catalyst for community re-formation or engagement during a time of crisis or ca.tastrophe.

May 15, Saturday

Course Introduction

Housekeeping, the nature of The Preaching Life

Listening to Your Life: Show and Tell for Adults

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Resources for Communicating the Gospel: a life of study

*Sermons around an occasion of national/local catastrophe

*Communicating the Gospel in Chaos and Kairos (reflections on special and crisis events in common life)

Brueggemann reflections: Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation

Intersection: The Word and the word of life.

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Assignment for May 22

*Write: Listening to Your Life 3: write a one page reflection on a symbolic "sacred place" or "sacred object" from your past; or, a sacred event.

*draw and analyze worship space at two different style sanctuaries and building plans-how are these churches welcoming, or not? what does the organization of the building(s), lighting, sanctuary arrangement/appointments, design and use of art, color, sacred furnishings, say about what this congregation may be communicating about God, the people of God, the gospel.?

*Prepare a 10 minute sermon around a sacrament or sacramental moment: baptism, communion, marriage, funeral, to be preached 5/22

*Bring written outline/text, together with liturgy for communion, funeral, or wedding.

*Read: Central Things *Write a 2·3 page paper in dialogue with this text; describing and

articulating your practical theology of worship and sacrament

May 22, Saturday

*Principles of Sermon Preparation The Hermeneutic Circle *Interpretation: the Listeners *Interpretation: the Text

Due today; worship space analyses Due: Listening to Your Life 3 sacred event or sacred object/place Due: reaction paper on theology o/worship and sacrament

*Sacred Space: Embodying the Story: how space "preaches" the gospel

* The Sacraments: Mediating Mystery and Grace Short story (Annie Dillardfrom Holv the Firm)

* Listening to your Life 3

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Due: Sermons and Liturgies on Sacrament and Sacramental Events

Preaching & Liturgy Presentations

Following the "Story" Themes of the Lectionary

Communicating the Gospel Through Liturgy: framing the gospel Communication Through Liturgy and Seasons Telling the Story: Living by the Church Year

Assignment for June 5 *Read: Long, The Witness of Preaching 2 nd Edition

* for 6/5 write and be prepared to preach a sermon (15 minutes) derived from a lectionary text rooted in the liturgical calendar. * write a complete worship servicefliturgy for a liturgical year holy day (assigned) to frame your sermon.

Assignmentsfor June 5 and 12.

*Read: a book from the bibliography which explores preaching and worship from a particular cultural/ racial/ theological communal context. The text chosen must be approved by the professor. You will write an outline/ analysis of this text and be prepared to make a half hour oral presentation on your learnings for the class, on June 12.

Write a midrash based on or derived from a narrative scripture, to be presented on June 12.

Write a sermon, based on the midrash (but NOT the midrash itselO on the same narrative text. to be preached on June 12.

June 5, Saturday

Due: preach and tum in a written text and complete service of worship based upon a text from one of the seasons of the liturgical calendar.

The form of Midrash as proclamation and imagination

The Art of Midrash

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Communicating the gospel: storytelling and the bible

Preaching and Leading Worship with the Whole Self: Movement, Music and the Poetry of Worship

Dr. Kraus and Dr. Warren Broome

*Preaching on the Church Year

Juue 12 Saturday

Due: midrash, sermons, presentations on preaching texts.

Sermons We Preach Together: interactive preaching and worship

Student Presentations-book reviews

The Embodied Word-music, liturgical movement and congregational practice--- Dr. Broome

Present Midrash: imagination and the Word Made Flesh

Preaching: Narrative Sermons

June 19 Saturday

Guest Lecturer: the Rev. Dr. Missiouri McPhee

Preaching and Worship in the African American Tradition

June 26, Saturday

Guest Lecturer Dr. Elias Bouboutsis

Orthodox Worship Practice

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Requirements

Participation in all classes, and conscientious completion of all assignments. If your absence is necessary, please notify the professor prior to class time. Use of inclusive language about God and in general is expected of all participants.

Assigned Readings:

The texts for the Preaching and Worship Course are as follows:

Lathrop, Gordon W. Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament. Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, MN 2005. ISBN 0-8066-5163-6

Long, Thomas. The Witness of Preaching 2nd Edition Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY 2005

Taylor, Barbara Brown. The Preaching Life. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1993.

Requirements

Written/ Oral Assignments:

1. two one page "Listening to Your Life" reflections. 2. 2-3 page reaction papers to assigned textbooks.

3. Writing and presentation of a midrash. 4. Drawn/written presentations of "holy space" 5. 4 preached/written sermons in specified forms:

a sermon on crisis/catastrophe a communion, funeral or wedding meditation with liturgy a sermon from a liturgical season's text. a sermon from a narrative text based upon the midrash

6. Oral presentation on assigned book on preaching/liturgy. 7. Full participation in the final two classes on African American

worship/preaching, and Orthodox preaching/liturgical traditions.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Worldly preaching: lectures on homiletics. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1991.

BV 4214 B66132 5 1991

Brueggemann, Walter. Texts under negotiation: the Bible and postmodern imagination. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1 993.

BS 500 .B78 1993

Brueggemann, Walter. Finally comes the poet: daring speech for proclamation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.

BV 4211.2 .B75 1989

Brueggemann, Walter. Cadences of home: preaching among exiles. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.

BV 4211.2 .B745 1997

Buechner, Frederick. Telling the truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977.

Burghardt, Walter J. Preaching: the art and the craft. New York: Paulist Press, 1987. BV 4211.2 .B84 1987

Buttrick, David G. Homiletic: moves and structures. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1987. BV 4211.2 .B861987

Childers, Jana. Performing the Word. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 1998.

Clarke, Erskine, Exilic Preaching. Testimony for Christian Exiles in an Increasingly Hostile Culture. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Claypool, John R. The preaching event. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1980. BV 4222 .C54 1980

Craddock, Fred B. Overhearing the gospel. Nashville: Abingdon, 1978.

_____ ,. Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985. BV 4211.2 .C755 1985

Crafton, Barbara Cawthorne. The sewing room. Harrisburg, P A : Morehouse Publishing, 1997.

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Crawford, Evans E. The hum: call and response in African American preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995. BV 4208 .U6 en 1995

Dillard, Annie. For the Time Being. New York: Knopf, 1999.

_____ . Holy the Firm. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

_____ . Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.

_____ .Teaching a stone to talk: expeditions and encounters. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Duck, Ruth C. Finding words for worship: a guide for leaders. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. BV 10.2 .D83 1995

Duke, Robert W. The sermon as God's word: theologies for preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980. BV 4207 .D84 1980

Eck, Diana L. Encountering God: a spiritualjoumeyfrom Bozeman to Banaras. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Eslinger, Richard Laurence. Narrative imagination: preaching the worlds that shaped us. Minneapolis: Fortress Press,1995.

BV 4211.2 .E84 1995

Fanner, David Albert and Edwina Hunter, cds. And blessed is she: sermons by women. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.

BV 4241 .A685 1990

Hancock, Eugenia Lee. The Book of Women 's Sermons: Hearing God in Each Others' Voices. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Killinger, John, compo Experimental preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1973. BV 4241 .K48 1973

_____ , ed. The 11 o'clock news and other experimental sermons. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1975.

BV 4241 .E55 1975

Lamott, Anne. Traveling mercies: some thoughts onfai/h. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.

LaRue, Cleophus J. The Heart of Black Preaching. Louisville, KY: Westminister/John

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Knox, 2000.

Lee, Jung Young. Korean preaching: an interpretation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

BV 4208 .K6 L44 1997

Linn, Edmund Holt. Preaching as counseling: the unique method of Harry Emerson Fosdick. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1966.

BV 4211.2 .L52 1966

Long, Thomas G. and Edward Farley, cds. Preaching as a theological task: world, Gospel, Scripture: in honor o.fDavid Buttrick. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996

Lowry, Eugene, How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form.

McClure, John S. ed. Best Advicefor Preaching. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1998.

Otherwise Preaching a postmodern ethic for homiletics, St Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2001.

McGee, Lee; with Thomas H. Troeger. Wrestling with the patriarchs: retrieving women's voices in preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

BV 4211.2 .M35 1996

Meyers, Robin R. With ears to hear: preaching as self-persuasion. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1993.

BV 4211.2 .M42 1993

Mitchell, Ella Pearson. Those preach in , women: sermons by Black women preachers. Valley Forge, P A: Judson Press, 1985-1996. 3 v.

BV 4241 .T45 1985-1996

Nichols, J. Randall. The restoring word: preaching as pastoral communication. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Harper & Row, 1987.

BV 4211.2 .N49 1987

Noren, Carole Marie. The woman in the pulpit. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. BV 676 .N67 1992

Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: a spiritual geography. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.

_____ . The cloister walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

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Rice, Charles Lynvel. The embodied word: peaching as art and liturgy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.

BV 4211.2 .R47 1991

Smith, Christine M. Preaching as weeping, confession and resistance: radical responses to radical evil. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, I 992.

BV 4211.2 .S623 1992

_____ . Weaving the sermon: preaching in afeminist perspective. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1989.

BV 4235 .F44 S63 1989

Smith, J. Alfred. Outstanding Black sermons. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1976-1982.3 v.

Taylor, Barbara Brown. Bread of angels. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1997.

_____ . Gospel medicine. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1995 .

..._-___ --. The preaching life. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1993. BX 5995 .T26 A3 1993

_____ . God in pain: teaching sermons on suffering. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Tisdale, Leonara Tubbs Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art. Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress. Press, 1997.

Troeger, Thomas, Imagining a Sermon, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Note: Classification number with a title indicates that book is in the FCTS Library

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FLORIDA CENTER FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDIES Miami Campus/Web Conference Mode

ES301 Ministerial Ethics Summer 2010 Rev. Elias Gunsaulus Bouboutsis, Ph.D., Instructor dialogian@yahoo.com Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4.00-7.00pm.

Catalogue Description: A study of personal and congregational ethical issues facing loday's pastor, such as conflicts or interest, handling of money, sexual harassment and misconduct, the necessity for confidentiality, and legal issues pertaining to staff conduct. Prerequisite: ESI01.

In a changing and complex postmodem world, the ethical practice of ministry faces extraordinary challenges. Many of these challenges were anticipated in antiquity, and addressed in 'pastoral' texts by biblical and early Christian writers, as well as by medieval and reformation thinkers. Others, of a legal and counseling practice nature in a church-state separationist context are novel. In most cases, the guiding CPE-movement question, 'Whose needs are being met in this act of ministry?' is most illuminating. This course will introduce students to the classical and modem treatment of ethical issues in ministry, and orient them to the primary legal issues effecting pastors today. Cross­cultural and intercultural dynamics will also be explored, giving students a sense of the unique ethical strengths and challenges posed by diverse cultural contexts of ministry. Concrete case studies will give participants an opportunity to do the (trans)formative work of values clarification that often characterizes pastoral practice. While ministerial ethics 'information' will be an important component of this course, the most important piece will be to contribute to student formation in the ethos of professional ministry, an ethos grounded in the time-and-place transcendent foundation of biblical Christian ongms.

Required Texts Lebacqz K. and Driskill, J. Ethics and Spiritual Care: A Guide for Pastors, Chaplains & Spiritual Directors. Nashville: Abingdon, 2000.

Purves, Andrew. Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

Trull, J. and Carter, J. Ministerial Ethics: Moral Formation for Church Leaders. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.

Secondary Texts On reserve in FCTS library, and to be discussed during first meetings.

Course of Study

11 May: Introduction. Ethos: From a transformative vision to a transformative way of being. 13 May: Old Testament foundations - The eihos of Prophecy and Priesthood in ancient Israel. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 18 May: Introduction to final project, expectations and resources. New Testament foundations - Gospel and Apostolic ethos in ministry. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 20 May: Pastoral theology and pastoral practice in the Ecumenical first millennium. The emergence of Canon Law. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 25 May: Pastoral Theology and pastoral practice in the medieval West and the Reformation. Penitentiaries and Tribunals. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 27 May: Formation & Ethos in ministry I - Foundations. Ministerial and Public Leadership. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. I June: Formation & Ethos in ministry II - History, Development and Change. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 3 June: MIDTERM. Project Due. 8 June: Formation & Ethos in Ministry III - Confronting our own Narcissism and Exceptionalism - 'Above the Law?' Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 10 June: Conflicting Interests, Finances, Partisanship and' Church Politics.' Case work. Readings as assigned in class. IS June: Clergy Sexuality, Harassment and Misconduct. Addictions and the ministry. The ' Moral Hazards ' of power and privilege. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 17 June: Ethics and Law in Staff Oversight. Ethics and Pastoral Counseling. Partnering wiih other Helping Professionals. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 22 June: The Duty to Protect: Mandatory Reporting and Due Diligence. Case work. Readings as assigned in class. 24 June: Concluding Reflections: Toward a Transformative Pastoral Ethos. 29 June: Seminar in Ministerial Eihics - Final Project Presentations and Process.

Requirements & Grading Students are expected to attend and participate in all class meetings, being prepared as assigned in previous meeting (1/3 grade). Students will present 200-word cases (no longer), as assigned, and to be processed in class meetings (113 grade). Finally, students will prepare a IS-page paper (no longer) evaluating a particular topic or issue in ministerial ethics (due MidtelID, 3 June, 2010), and present such to peers (verbally) at the final class meeting (113 grade). Only one excused absence will be allowed without a grading consequence. Written work will be expected to follow Turabian format. Academic integrity is a piece of ministerial ethics - all work must be one's own, and all quotations cited appropliately and completely - failure to do so will result in returned paper and down-grading of one letter grade. No incompletes will be offered this term, due to immanent transition to St. Thomas University.

Notes: Students residing in the South Florida region are strongly advised to physically attend class meetings; exceptions locally must be negotiated with instructor. While the Center will do all possible to facilitate alternative modes of attendance, Webex learners are responsible for appropriate receptor technology, including high-speed internet, Skype and conventional telephone connections. Finally, instructor reserves the right to modify Syllabus guidelines and/or schedule in special circumstances, such as tropical storms.