Syllabus Assignments for Seminar of Ordained Ministry 2017 Instructor: The Rev. Kent Branstetter

Course Readings are given for the Date they are to be finished and ready to discuss. (All references listed first with Chapter and title are from Pastor – A Reader for Ordained Ministry).

Assignments are to be submitted on the Thursday before the class they are listed to be completed by (unless otherwise stated).

Full assignments are listed below the course schedule.

1. SEPT 9 – The Scope of the Field (Read & be ready to discuss: Chapter 1 – Ordination)

Assignment a> send me your Hopes and Expectations of the class.

2. SEPT 16 – Dispositions and Habits (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 12 – The Pastor as Character & Chapter 13 – The Pastor as Disciplined Christian) & Sarah Coakley, The Vicar at Prayer - An English reflection on ministry. Christian Century, July 1, 2008.

No Assignment due.

3. SEPT 23 – Community of Ministers (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 3 – Pastor as Priest; & Chapter 10 – Pastor as Prophet) Read the Baptismal Service & looking for aspects of community. Read also Community and Growth By Jean Vanier from https://books.google.com/books? id=fH7bDuYLQuwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false pages 13-24;

Due: Assignment #1 (due on the day: Sept 23)

4. SEPT 30 – Kenosis, Theosis, & Covenants (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 7 – Pastor as Counselor) and also Read & ready to discuss: ▪ 2 Peter 1:3–4 ▪ Philippians 2 ▪ A. M. Allchin. Participation in God: A Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition (Chapter one is only one I’m asking you to read, but chapter 2 is worth reading if you have the time!) No Assignment 5. OCT 7 – Drama, Silence and Glory (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 5 – Pastor as Interpreter of Scripture & Chapter 6 – Pastor as Preacher)

Due: Assignment #2

6. OCT 14 – Gratitude in the Trenches (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 8 – Pastor as Teacher)

Due: Assignment #3 – by the class date.

7. OCT 21 – Leadership and Ministry (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 11 – Pastor as Leader) Listen to One of the podcasts below and report highlights to class (how might it be used in ministry) (http://readtoleadpodcast.com) #EPISODE #028: DANIEL PINK, AUTHOR OF TO SELL IS HUMAN #EPISODE #043: SIMON SINEK, AUTHOR, LEADERS EAT LAST: WHY SOME TEAMS PULL TOGETHER AND OTHERS DON’T #EPISODE #066: SETH GODIN SHARES WISDOM FROM HIS NEW BOOK: WHAT TO DO WHEN IT’S YOUR TURN #EPISODE #108: CHOOSING A LIFE THAT MATTERS WITH JOHN MAXWELL #EPISODE #025: AUGUST TURAK, AUTHOR OF BUSINESS SECRETS OF THE TRAPPIST MONKS #EPISODE #062: ROOKIE SMARTS AUTHOR LIZ WISEMAN ON WHY LEARNING BEATS KNOWING #EPISODE #052: THE DISCIPLINED PURSUIT OF LESS WITH ESSENTIALISM AUTHOR GREG MCKEOWN #EPISODE #060: HOW TO SOLVE UNSOLVABLE PROBLEMS WITH DAVID NIVEN PHD #EPISODE #142: FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART Becoming a Heart-Led Leader with Tommy Spaulding

8. OCT 28 – Practicals: Vestry Read to discuss: Parsons, Vestries, and Parishes, A Manual, Lawrence, A. William (pp. 57-67)

Due: Assignment #4

9. NOV 04 – Collaboration of Bishop, Priests, and Deacons (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 9 – Pastor as Evangelist Essays & Sermons by Bhp B. Sims in Purple Ink – On the Meaning of a Strange Word; On the Ordination of Women; On Being a Priest.

Due: Assignment #5 – Sermon on being a priest by Julia Gatta

10. NOV 18 – Unnecessary Ministry? What’s Next? (Read & ready to discuss: Chapter 4 – Priest as Pastor) also: The Present future Six tough questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal

Due: Assignment #6 – Not required – Extra Credit (can replace any other assignment except #3 or #8) Final (#8) To be Handed out on this day:

11. DEC 2 – Mission Field Class discussion will be presented by the students, from the chapters below.

Due: Read and present (15 minutes) a synopsis to class: Assignment #11 (#7 Pick One from: Ancient Faith, Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Tradition. Steven Croft (Editor), Ian Mobsby (Editor), Stephanie Spellers (Editor), Katharine Jefferts Schori (Foreword). New York: Seabury Press, 2010. 1. Chapter 2, Brian McClaren, “One Holy Catholic and Fresh?” pp. 9-19. 2. Chapter 3, Ian Adams & Ian Mobsby, “New Monasticism” pp. 20-33. 3. Chapter 8, Phyllis Tickle, Anglicanism and the Great Emergence [or ? Liturgy and Cultural Engagement] 99-108. 4. Chapter 13, Spellers, Ashley, Harkey and Wesselhoeft, “Mission @ The Crossing: Where Real Church Meets Real Life” 144-156. Chapter 15, Karen Ward, “A Story of Anglimergence: Community, Covenant, Eucharist and Mission at Church of the Apostles,” p165-170

12. DEC 9 – A Future – Open for Imagination Read & Discuss Chapter 2 – Ministry for the 21st Century

Final due (on Saturday Dec 9)

All Assignments are due on the Thursday before they are listed unless otherwise stated

Assignment a> Expectations the week after the first class.

Assignment 1> Compare and Contrast the Ordinals in the 1928 & 1979 BCP due on the class date.

Assignment 2> Deacons Commemorated in the church

• SAINT STEPHEN, DEACON AND MARTYR • Philip, Deacon and Evangelist • Laurence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258 • Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304 • Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373 • , Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804 • Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637 • David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931 • Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary, 1969

Pick a deacon that is commemorated in the Church (above)– and then during class – each student will select one (1 per student), so no one has the same one. Write a 500 word biography. You may use bio in Holy Women and Holy Men, and the internet for research. Due: Thursday – send to everyone in class digitally and we will take 30 minutes (total) of class time to make comments on each others contributions.

Assignment 3> Write between 1000-1500 words on the GOE question below. Due: Thursday – send to me digitally.

Christian and Missiology LIMITED RESOURCES: A printed one-volume annotated Bible, a printed 1979 Book of Common Prayer and a printed Hymnal 1982 (and the following text). Theological anthropology is the discipline of examining the nature and meaning of being human in the context of relationship with the Triune God. One Christian doctrine of human being, dating from the time of , is the doctrine of theosis or deification. One of the most famous definitions of theosis comes to us from of Lyons by way of Athanasius, "God became man that man might become God." (De Incarnatione 54) In a four-page essay, using this doctrine as the starting point, sketch out the theological implications of theosis for a theology of ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church. The quotations below are provided to give you both theological and biblical texts which are the bases of the doctrine or which are theological expressions of the doctrine. The quotations are Biblical, Patristic, Anglican, and Orthodox. You are free to use these texts in whatever way(s) you choose. It is not expected that you say something about all of them. Key Patristic Biblical Texts Genesis 1:26a, 27a: Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness ... " So God created humankind in his image, in the image and likeness of God he created them; male and female he created them. Psalms 82:6-7: I say, "You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you; Nevertheless, you shall die like mortals, and fall like any prince." 2 Peter 1:4: "Thus he [Jesus] has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature." New Testament Texts John 17:20b: As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. John 17:26: I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. Patristic Texts Irenaeus of Lyons: Because of his infinite love he became what we are in order to make us what he himself is. (Against Heresies 5, Preface) Athanasius: God became man that man might become God. (De Incarnatione 54) : " ... the power of this reciprocal gift which deifies man for God through the love of God, and makes God man for man through his love for man, making through his noble exchange God to become man for the deification of man, and man to become God for the humanization of God. For the Word of God who is God wills always and in all things to work the mystery of his embodiment." (from Ambigua 10, cited in Allchin, p. 70) Anglican Texts Richard Hooker: "Participation is that mutuall inward hold which Christ hath of us and wee of him, in such sort that ech possesseth other by waie of speciall interest propertie and inherent copulation. For plainer explication whereof we may from that which hath bene before sufficientlie proved assume to our purpose these two principles, that everie originall cause imparteth it selfe unto those things which come of it, and Whatsoever taketh beinge from anie other the same is after a sort in that which giveth beinge. (Lawes. V.56.30) ... For wee have [on earth] onlie the beinge of the Sonnes of God, ... yeat touching this that all are sonnes they are all equales, some happelie better sonnes that the rest are, but none any more a sonne then another. Thus wee see how the father is in the Sonne and the Sonne in the father, how they both are in all things and all things in them, what communion Christ hath with his Church, how his Church and everie member thereof is in him by originall derivation, and he personallie in them by way of mysticall association wrought through the guift of the holie Ghost, which they that are his receive from him, and together with the same what benefit soever the vitall force of his bodie and blood may yield, yea by steppes and degrees they receave the complete measure of all such divine grace, as doth sanctifie and save throughout, till the daie of their finall exaltation to the state of fellowship in glorie, with him whose pertakers they are now in those things that tend to glorie." Lancelot Andrewes: God is "to make us that to God that he was this day [Christmas Day] to man. And this indeed was the chief end of his being 'With us'; to give us a posse fiery, a capacity, 'a power to be made the sons of God', by being born again of water and the Spirit; for Originem quam sunpsit ex utero Virgin's posuit in fonte Baptismatis, 'the same original that himself took in the womb of the Virgin to usward the same hath he placed in the fountain of Baptism to Godward' ... So his being conceived and born the Son of man doth conceive and bring forth (filiatio, filiationem) our being born, our being sons of God, his participation of our human, our participation of his divine nature." (Complete Works. Library of Anglo- (1841 - 54), vol. I, p. 122. A. M. Allchin: "Without the doctrine of our deification by grace, the doctrine of the incarnation in the end loses its meaning and finality. For how can God enter into man unless man is made from the beginning to enter into God?" (Participation in God: A Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition, p. 6) The Book of Common Prayer (1979) Eucharistic Prayer I, Rite I: "And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion, may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled with thy heavenly benediction, and made one body with him, that he may dwell in us and we in him." The Prayer of Humble Access: "Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us." Orthodox Text Norman Russell: "The fact that theosis encompasses the whole of the economy of salvation means that it is intended for all believers without exception. To live theosis, then, means to lead our life in an eschatological perspective within the ecclesial community, striving through prayer, participation in the Eucharist, and the practice of the moral life to attain the divine likeness, being conformed spiritually and corporeally to the body of Christ until we are brought into Christ's identity and arrive ultimately at union with the Father." (Fellow Workers with God: Orthodox Thinking on Theosis, p. 169) due on the class day.

Assignment 4> Look over Vestry Papers, (and write out 3-5 titles of those a new vestry member should read and in a sentence tell why) site: http://www.ecfvp.org/vestry-papers Assignment 5>

Read the following sermon: “Grace upon grace: on being a priest” By: Gatta, Julia. Source: Sewanee Theological Review, 53 no 2 Easter 2010, p 117-120.

Write: a 250 word synopsis of the article,

Assignment 6> NOT REQUIRED, Extra which may replace any other assignment except final and #3 READ: The theology of priesthood By: Sykes, Stephen W Bp. Source: Sewanee Theological Review, 43 no 2 Easter 2000, p 121-129.

Write: a 1000 word synopsis of the article.

Assignment 7> Read and present a (10-15) synopsis to class: #7 Pick One from: Ancient Faith, Future Mission: Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Tradition. Steven Croft (Editor), Ian Mobsby (Editor), Stephanie Spellers (Editor), Katharine Jefferts Schori (Foreword). New York: Seabury Press, 2010. ◦ Chapter 2, Brian McClaren, “One Holy Catholic and Fresh?” pp. 9-19. ◦ Chapter 3, Ian Adams & Ian Mobsby, “New Monasticism” pp. 20-33. ◦ Chapter 8, Phyllis Tickle, Anglicanism and the Great Emergence [or ? Liturgy and Cultural Engagement] 99-108. ◦ Chapter 13, Spellers, Ashley, Harkey and Wesselhoeft, “Mission @ The Crossing: Where Real Church Meets Real Life” 144-156. ◦ Chapter 15, Karen Ward, “A Story of Anglimergence: Community, Covenant, Eucharist and Mission at Church of the Apostles,” p165-170

Assignment #8> Final To be Handed out (given) on the day of the last class.