10 May 2010

Movie List - rel262 Intro to Christian Theology

3:10 to Yuma (Redemption)
A Beautiful Mind (Christology)
An Education (sin, redemption)
Almost Famous (community)
American Beauty (sin)
Atonement (atonement, duh!)
Avatar (creation, redemption)
Babel (sin)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (redemption)
Blade Runner (humanity)
Blue Like Jazz (community, redemption)
Changing Lanes (sin)
Children of Men (redemption)
Chocolat (Christology)
Constant Gardener (sin, redemption)
Donnie Darco (Christology, atonement)
Driving Lessons (salvation)
Easy A (redemption/redemptive suffering)
Elizabethtown (Christology, Restoration, Atonement)
Erin Brockovich (Christology, incarnation)
Everything is Illuminated (salvation)
Four Feathers (salvation, atonement)
Gattaca (humanity)
Gran Torino (Atonement)
Green Street Hooligans (sin, redemption)
High Fidelity (humanity, sin, salvation)
Jet Li’s Fearless (redemption, salvation)
Land Before Time (community)
Les Miserables (redemption)
Life as a House (salvation/atonement)
Mean Girls (work of Christ, pelagianism)
Millions (redemption)
North Country (redemption, salvation, liberation theology)
Once (Christology, redemption)
Prometheus (talk to me, this is only for the brave/crazy)
Sandlot (community)
School of Rock (Christology, community) Seven Pounds (Christology)
Smoke Signals (community, salvation)
Son of Rambow (Christology, salvation)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (incarnation, atonement)
The Descendants (salvation, redemption)
The Flowers of War (redemption)
The Hurricane (Christology)
The 5th Element (Christology, salvation)
The Big Kahuna (sin)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Community, Salvation)
The Tree of Life (sin, redemption, only for the brave/crazy)
The Walking Dead (sin, salvation, atonement)
The Wrestler (Christology, redemption)
V for Vendetta (sin, salvation)
Whale Rider (Christology)

14 March 2010

FALL 2010 REQUIRED TEXTS

REL262 Intro to Christian Theology
Bell, Rob. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006. ISBN: 0310273080 (pbk.) (Hardback is identical if you have or buy that edition).

Hanson, Bradley. Introduction to Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997. ISBN: 0800629841

McLaren, Brian D; Campolo, Anthony. Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2006, 2003. ISBN: 0310267137 (pbk.) 9780310267133 (pbk.)


REL382 Religion in America
Albanese, Catherine, America: Religions and Religion. 4th edition. 2007. (4th edition only!)

Balmer, Randall, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, an Evangelical's Lament. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2006.

Sweeny, Douglas. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005

CEY212 Foundational Issues in Youth Ministry
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 1999.

Tony Jones, Postmodern Youth Ministry. 2001

Walt Mueller, Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Bridging Teen Worldviews And Christian Truth, 2006.

Mark Oestreicher, Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We've Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go. 2008.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. (1951) 2001.

Pete Ward, God at the Mall. 1997.

13 December 2009

CEY315 Philosophy of Adolescent Ministry - Spring 2010 Texts

Here are the required texts:

Folmsbee, Chris. A New Kind of Youth Ministry. Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006. ISBN 031026989X

Griffiths, Steve. A Christlike Ministry. YTC Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781847993571

Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. ISBN:034543594X.

Jones, Tony. Postmodern Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001. ISBN: 031023817X.

Perkins, John; Claiborne, Shane. Follow Me to Freedom: Leading As an Ordinary Radical. Regal, 2009 ISBN: 0830751203

Oestreicher, Mark. Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We've Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go. 2008. ISBN: 0310668662

Smith, Christian. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 019518095X.

Turpin, Katherine. Branded: Adolescents Converting from Consumer Faith. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2006. ISBN: 0829817387.

02 November 2009

REL262 Intro to Christian Theology - Texts for Spr '10 & Spr '11

Here are the 3 required texts:

Bell, Rob. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006. ISBN: 0310273080 (pbk.) (Hardback is identical if you have or buy that edition).

Hanson, Bradley. Introduction to Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997. ISBN: 0800629841

McLaren, Brian D; Campolo, Anthony. Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2006, 2003. ISBN: 0310267137 (pbk.) 9780310267133 (pbk.)

27 July 2009

Fall '09 - REL382 Religion in America

3 required texts.

Albanese, Catherine,
America: Religions and Religion. 4th edition. 2007. (4th edition only!)

Balmer, Randall, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, an Evangelical's Lament. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2006.

Sweeny, Douglas. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005

23 June 2009

REL110 Fall '09 - Intro to Biblical Studies

Required Texts:
  • Hauer & Young, Introduction to the Bible: A Journey into Three Worlds, 7th edition. 2007. ISBN 0136155308;ISBN-13: 978-0136155300 (Don't buy an older edition, there is enough new material that it won't work.)
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, College Edition. 3rd Augmented edition. 2007. (Again, the changes from previous editions are sufficient. Do NOT buy the non-Augmented 3rd edition from 2001. And even if you already have an NRSV version, there are extra articles you will be required to read that only appear in this edition.)