Catalogue 2008 Book - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

DEPARTMENT OF THE CHURCH’S MINISTRY
reading, and presiding at the corporate celebration of the sacraments. Prerequisite: CM.122
or instructor’s permission. Three credits. Ms. Saldine
CM.285 WORKSHOP IN LITURGICAL MINISTRY: MUSIC AND RENEWAL OF
WORSHIP
Strategies for the renewal of common worship are at the heart of renewal of the life and mission
of the church in the contemporary setting in North America. Music is a central feature of
various strategies of renewal, including classic liturgical renewal, seeker worship, blended
worship, and contemporary worship. The workshop investigates the theological character
and rationale for each of several liturgical strategies, with emphasis on the role of music
in each. A variety of the musical forms of worship renewal, their employment in worship,
and theological implications of the use of music are explored with readings, recordings,
performance and conversation with practitioners of liturgical music. Prerequisite: CM.122
or instructor’s permission. Three credits.
CM.287 WORKSHOP IN LITURGICAL MINISTRY: THE PASTORAL CELEBRATIONS
This course helps students develop and enhance their understandings and skills for leading occasional
and special services of worship, including the rites of marriage, funerals, healing and ministry with
the sick, ordination, and reaffi rmation of baptism. Students also refl ect on the place of the sacraments
in pastoral ministry and develop pastoral skills for sacramental ministry with those who are unable
to attend public worship. Prerequisite: CM.122 or instructor’s permission. Three credits.
CM.289 WORSHIP AND JUSTICE
The relationship between the prayer of the gathered assembly and the work and life of
justice is an intimate but often neglected or undetected one. In this seminar we explore this
relationship, read the current literature and assess its value and application. Our goal is to
develop new insights and enrich pastoral imagination. Six credits. Mr. Adams
CM.291 WOMEN, VOICE, AND PREACHING
This course focuses on the history and present experience of women who are preachers. Using
current homiletical theory, we engage historical and contemporary discussions of vocation,
voice, authority, and purposes of preaching in relation to the experience of women in ministry.
Prerequisites: CM.122 and CM.126. Six credits. Ms. Lord
CM.293 NARRATIVE AND IMAGINATION IN PREACHING
Drawing on insights from homiletics and creative writing, this course explores the creative
process in preaching. Students consider how ideas are formed, how a sermon’s moves are
structured, and how the rational and emotional faculties are connected. Issues of narrative
line, image, and pace in sermons are explored. Course readings and class discussion inform
students’ crafting and preaching of sermons. Prerequisites: CM.122 and CM.126. Six
credits. Ms. Lord
CM.309 ISSUES IN REFORMATION AND MODERN LITURGY
This course studies a selected topic with a view to contributing to the defi nition and resolution
of a signifi cant issue in the life of the contemporary church. The course emphasizes reading
the primary texts of rites and the works of major fi gures. The seminar format stresses the
sharing of individual research within the framework of common readings in primary and
secondary texts. Six credits.
CM.311 LITURGICAL ARCHITECTURE: ENVIRONMENT, ART, AND THEOLOGY IN
WORSHIP
The course is directed to the practical-theological study of worship and the space of the
community in its liturgical ministry. The church’s liturgical environment—its design, use,
and renovation—is examined as a crucial part of the text that is available for a more full
and adequate understanding of the church. Lectures and readings introduce students to
an historical overview of Christian liturgical architecture, as well as signifi cant Jewish and
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