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• MN426/SP7512 Hands of the Maker: Spiritual Creativity in Life and Ministry

  • Professor: Carla Waterman

  

  Underneath this familiar prayer from the Psalms lies a great, often unexplored, spiritual reality. How is it that we human beings are to engage life as "

  The format for retreat course will consist of discussion of assigned readings in the morning, space for creative reflection in the afternoons and communal sharing and worship in the evenings. By the end of the retreat, the student will have begun to develop a creative project to implement in their ministry context.Establish the work of our hands.

  Why is such a class important? Because it draws us away from our natural, fallen imbalances of headiness (living withdrawn in our ideas), activism (living exhausted in our activities) or emotionalism (living addicted to our experiences) and into a solid space where the ideas we receive from above, the activities that proceed from them, and the spiritual vitality that flows through them enable us to pray with confidence  '

  a medium for creation"and not just "a problem to be solved?"How do we live in such a way that "establish the work of our hands"is simply the next prayer in a whole life of grounded, prayerful creativity?
• NT499 The Sermon on The Mount

  • Professor: Jay Noh

  

  The "Sermon on the Mount" is probably the best known portion of Jesus' teaching, issuing a clarion call to his followers to an authentic discipleship (e.g., beatitudes, salt and light, Christ and the Law, loving one's enemies, fasting, the Lord's prayer, judging others, etc.). But there's a raging debate about its intended audience, modern applicability, presumed function as "a quintessence of Christianity." This course is an in-depth exegetical study of the Sermon in English in the light of its background, purpose and modern applications to foster a wholehearted discipleship in a shallow world.