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Spiritual Themes in Counseling and Church Ministry Credits: 4 Doctoral Credits Class-Session 1 COURSE SYLLABUS Course No.: DC9024 Course Title: Spiritual themes in counseling and church ministry Credits: 4 doctoral credits Class-Session 1. July 10-12 (Mon to Wed) 9am to 5pm with one hour lunch Break Date: 2. Sept 4-6 (3D2N retreat camp) Schedule: The course takes place over a period of 3 months with classroom time and retreats. Due Dates: Post-Class-Session assignment is due sixty days after the Class-Session ends. Professor of Dr. Greg Johanson, Ph.D. Record Dr. Elsie Tung, Psy D Course This course will explore spirituality as a lived experience in different forms, and Description how pastoral staff can relate helpfully to different functional types of and Design spirituality within the context of their specific faith traditions. The spiritual themes will include how mindfulness practice is integrated in soul care and discernment. Practicing contemplative prayer as a way of listening to how spiritual formation and direction work in pastoral counseling and ministry will Be the foci of study in this course. Methodology Didactic, practices in contemplative prayers and retreats. This course will use a large amount of experiential learning. Lectures, class discussion, demonstrations, practice in prayers and retreats will Be employed to facilitate learning in Both affective and cognitive fashions. Learning Upon successful completion of this course, the doctorial students should: Outcome 1. Be more sensitive about spiritual needs and their practice. 2. Be able to exercise soul care and discernment. 3. Be able to facilitate prayer training, retreats and spiritual practice . Course The module consists of 3 parts. Outline I. Lectures on spirituality II. Personal reflections and retreat experience III. Field experience and research Lecture (1) July 10, morning Subjects • Theological principles of spiritual theology (Chan) • The practice of spiritual life (Chan) • Animal Quaerens: The quest as a dimension of human experience (Torrance) • What is soul care? (Benner) • Multiple definitions of spirituality • Organizing types of spirituality (Jones) • Spiritual worlds self-test inventory (Jones) (2) July 10, afternoon · Pastoral counseling and spiritual direction • States of consciousness/Focused meditations, awareness meditations, emptiness meditations (Gefen) • Mindfulness vs. ordinary consciousness as states of consciousness • Living into the image of God (Bondi) • Spiritual direction of types (Jones) • Three types of theology (Gonzalez) (3) July 11, morning • BiBlically-Based meditations for diverse congregants • "Reading the inarticulate": Mysticism, poetics, and the Unlanguageable (Burrows/Dreyer & Burrows) • Surprise and gratefulness (Steindle-Rast) • Spiritual But not religious (Fuller) • Finding center in pastoral care (Thornton/Borchert and Lester) • Spiritual Capital and the Turn to spirituality (Sullivan/Sullivan and Flanagan) (4) July 11, afternoon • Spirituality and science • Henri Nouwen and the heart as home (Callahan/Callahan) • Desire: addiction and human freedom (G. May) • Personal transformation: Perspectives from psychology and Christianity (Watts/Koss-Chioino and Hefner) • An ecologically sensitive spirituality (Berry/Dreyer & Burrows) • Healing Damaged Emotions (David Seamands) • Gregory Palamas (Dupre & Wiseman) (5) July 12, morning • Pastoral counseling and spiritual direction • Human Beings "in the image of God" (Howe) • The meaning and scope of spiritual gifts (Bryant) • Wu Wei and the care of the soul (Sorajjakool) • Reuniting Spirituality and work (Conger) • Praying our experience (Miller) (6) July 12, afternoon • The integration of religion, spirituality, and clinical practice (Kahle & RoBBins) • Entertaining angels unaware: the spirituality of hospitality (Thompson) • The mysticism of everyday (Carter) • Spirituality in/of the flesh (Fuller) • Education as spiritual formation (Palmer) • Retreat: A mystery of purification, illumination, and union (Philippe) Pre-Class 1. Pre-class reading: Students are required to read two Books (a total of 550 Session pages) marked * from the reference and a write a 1000 words review of Requirements each (including Both a summary of the Book and the student’s own evaluation). These reviews are to Be written in English and turned in at the Beginning of class (July 10, 2017). 2. Completed “A Theological Worlds Inventory: Discovery One’s Self and Congregation” (will receive By email after registration). Post-Class-session Assignments Journals This is your account of the course, day By day. It will require three levels of work: description, reflection and application (integration). (3- day lectures and retreat each 1000 words approximately) Due Date: one month after the lectures and one month after the retreat Course Paper Formative paper: On the ministry/service/discipleship you are presently engaged in where you are using spiritual practice to affect and minister to the needs of your congregation/community. The paper should Be included the integration of post-class reading around 450 pages and field experience /research. (4000 words) Due Date: one month after the completion of the course (OctoBer 6, 2017) HOMEWORK FORMAT Your post-class assignment can Be written in either Chinese or English But not a mixture of Both. Your paper must Be in One complete document that is presented in Turabian Format. Please suBmit all your homework to [email protected] Grading Book Reviews 30% Journals 30% Course Paper 40% Reference *Chan, Simon. Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998. *Jones, Paul W.. Theological Worlds. Nashville: ABingdon Press, 1989. __________________________________________________________________________ Barry, William A., Connolly, William J. The Practice of Spiritual Direction. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. Benner, David G. Care of Souls: Revisioning Christian Nurture and Counsel. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998. Benner, David G. Soulful Spirituality: Becoming Fully Alive and Deeply Human. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2011. Bondi, RoBerta C. To Pray & to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. Borchert, Gerald, L. and Lester, Andrew D. (Eds.). Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Witness to the Ministry of Wayne E. Oates. Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press, 1985. Bryant, Charles V. Rediscovering Our Spiritual Gifts: Building Up the Body of Christ Through the Gifts of the Spirit. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1991. Callahan, Annice, (Ed.). Spiritualities of the Heart: Approaches to Personal Wholeness in Christian Tradition. New York: Paulist Press. Carter, Edward. The Mysticism of Everyday. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1991. Clements, Ronald E. In Spirit and in Truth: Insight from Biblical Prayers. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1985. Conger, Jay A. & Associates. Spirit t Work: Discovering the Spirituality in Leadership. San Francisco: Jossy-Bass PuBlishers, 1994. Dreyer, Elizabeth and Burrows, Mark S. (Eds.). Minding the Spirit: The (Academic) Study of Christian Spirituality. London, England: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Dupre, Louis and Wiseman, James A. (Eds.). Light from Light: An Anthology of Christian Mysticism. New York: Paulist Press, 1988. Foster, Richard J. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. San Franciso: Harper & Row, PuBlishers, 1978. Fuller, RoBert C. Spirituality in the Flesh: Bodily Sources of Religious Experience. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Gefen, Nan Fink. Discovering Jewish Meditation: Instruction and Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights PuBlishing, 1999. Gonzalez, Justo L. Christian Thought Revisited. Nashville: ABingdon Press, 1989. Guenther, Margaret. Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction. Boston, MA: Cowley PuB., 1992. Howe, Leroy T. The Image of God: A Theology for Pastoral Care and Counseling. Nashville: Abingdon Press. Ignatius of Loyola, St. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Trans. A. Mottola. Garden City, NY: DouBleday Image, 1964. Jeffrey, David Lyle (Ed.). A Burning and a Shining Light: English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans PuBlishing. Jones, Paul W. The Art of Spiritual Direction: Giving and Receiving Spiritual Guidance. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 2002. Kahle, Peter A., and RoBBins, John M. The Power of Spirituality in Therapy: Integrating Spiritual and Religious Beliefs in Mental Health Practice. New York: Haworth Pastoral Press, 2004. Keating, Thomas. Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation. St. Benedict's Monastery,1992. Keating, Thomas. Intimacy with God: an introduction to centering prayer. New York: a crossroad book 2014. Koss-Chioino, Joan D. and Hefner, Philip. Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives. New York: Altamira Press, 2006. Leech, Kenneth. Soul Friend: The Practice of Christian Spirituality. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977 (Fall 1977) Lonsdale, David. Traditions of Spiritual Guidance, The Way, 32/4, 1992, 312-319. Macquarre, John. Paths in Spirituality, 2nd Ed. HarrisBurg, PA: Morehouse PuBlishing. Maloney, George A. Prayer of the Heart. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1981. May, Gerald G. Addiction and Grace. San Francisco: Harper & Row, PuBlishers, 1988. Mayo, Kelley Raab. Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Exploring Connections. Burlington, VT: Ashgate PuBlishing, 2009. McGrath, Allister. Christian Spirituality: An
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