Spring 2017/Pasadena
IS502
Cho
IS502: PRACTICES OF
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY (4 Units: 165 hours).
Euiwan Cho.
DESCRIPTION: Christian
practices constitute the Christian life.
The combined Christian practices of vocational formation, worship,
community, and mission facilitate the integration of personal, spiritual,
academic, and global formation into the vocation coherence of a Christian
leader through reflection, relationships, and practices. IS502 is an
integrative course that explores the identity and practices of Christian
community as a people called, gathered, and sent by God. Together, professor
and students study and enact historic Christian disciplines necessitated by
this distinctive identity (hospitality,
forgiveness, promise-keeping, truth-telling, gratitude, and testimony) in order
to form students who demonstrate capacities to cultivate a theologically
reflective practice of Christian discipleship.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
(1) Students will have demonstrated
capacities to critically reflect on their current and past experiences
of Christian practices of community. (2) Students will have demonstrated through participation in local contexts the
capacity to engage in activities and exercises related to Christian spiritual
disciplines and practices of community. (3) Students will have demonstrated
capacities to engage scripture, tradition, and contemporary resources to reflect
theologically on historic and personal practices of community. (4) Students
will have articulated how community practices impact their response to the
Central Integration Question (CIQ) and will identify exercises, habits, and
disciplines to embody these practices within their sociocultural context. COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for 3.5 hour
sessions for a total of 35 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and
discussion (which includes required synchronous
and/or asynchronous participation in vocation and formation groups) plus
5 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours. REQUIRED READING: 950 pp. of required reading and/or the
equivalent time in viewing. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Korean translation of Life Together (신도의 공동생활) The Christian Literature Society,
1989. ISBN: 9788951113062. Pub. Price $28.00 [200 pp. assigned] Lohfink, Gerhard. Korean translation of Jesus and Community (예수는 어떤 공동체를 원했나?). Bundo, 1984. ISBN: 9788941985242,
Pub. Price $19.00 [200 pp. assigned] Pohl, Christine. Korean translation of Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us (공동체로 산다는 것). JoyMission, 2014. ISBN: 978-8942103553.
Pub. Price $30.00 [250 pp. assigned] Sittzer, Gerald. Korean
translation of The Will of God as a Way
of Life: Finding and Following the Will of God (하나님의 뜻). BibleUnion, 2004. ISBN: 9788932550152. Pub.
Price $ 34.00 [100pp] Smith, C. Christopher & John Pattison. Korean translation
of Slow Church (슬로처치). InterVarsity, 2014. ISBN: 978-0830841141, Pub.
Price $16.00 [100 pp. assigned]. PRACTICES 1. Christian Formation Smith,
James K.A. “The Power of Habit and the Gift of Practices.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSFN3630Rs
(English caption is available) Ted Talk: The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMbsGBlpP30
(Eng. caption
is available) 2. Hospitality/Inclusion Smith, Slow Church (슬로처치), chapter 4, 10 (required text). 3. Truth-Telling Ted
Talk: The Danger of Silence. http://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_the_danger_of_silence
(Korean caption is available) Pohl, Christine, Living into Community, chapter 3
(required text). 4. Testimony/Story-telling Peace, Richard. “dialog”
Ministry and Theology (목회와 신학), May 2000. http://www.duranno.com/moksin/detail.asp?CTS_YER=2000&CTS_MON=5&CTS_ID=22032&CTS_CTG_COD=8 Sunil Kim. “The Evangelism in a Religiously Pluralistic Society”(종교다원주의 사회에서의 전도-레슬리 뉴비긴을 중심으로), Gospel and Mission (복음과 선교), vol. 24 (2013), pp. 9-43. 5. Forgiveness Film: Dead Man Walking Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, "Confession and Communion" in
Life Together (신도의 공동생활) (required text). 6. Gratitude Pohl, Christine. Living into Community. (공동체로 산다는 것) (required text). Smith, Slow Church (슬로처치), chapter 9 (required text). 7.
Promise Pohl, Christine. Living into Community. (공동체로 산다는 것) (required text). Smith, Slow Church (슬로처치), chapter 3 (required text). Website related to keeping promises: http://becauseisaidiwould.com 8. Group Spiritual Direction Sittzer, The Will of
God (하나님의 뜻) (required
text). BIBLICAL TEXTS: Deuteronomy (50pp equivalent), Matthew (50pp equivalent) ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT: PREREQUISITES: Korean. Recommended in first year of
study. RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets a core integrative
requirement in the 120 MDiv and the 80 MAT, 80 MATM, 80 MAICS Programs (Fall
2015) FINAL EXAMINATION:
None.