Bethany Theological Seminary's Moodle-X

Here you can review all syllabi for courses offered at Bethany for the upcoming semester, as available. We hope that you will feel free to peruse this information to assist you in selecting courses that you wish to take.

Additionally, while these syllabi are subject to final revision by faculty prior to the course beginning, book lists, preliminary assignments, and the like are dependable for these syllabi unless otherwise noted, so that you may use this information to begin to prepare ahead for courses in which you have chosen to enroll.

Faculty and Staff resources and conversations, including
* Teaching Faculty Addendum to the Employee Handbook (for Teaching Faculty)

We often take for granted that corporate worship is a foundational element of our Christian faith. But why do we worship together? How does worship build up the body of Christ and strengthen individual faith? We will explore these questions together, as well as how to create meaningful and vibrant worship experiences.

This course will focus on the history of Christianity from the 1500s up to the present day

Church of the Brethren History offered through SVMC.

This course will help students understand the origins of the denomination, including its Anabaptist and Radical Pietist roots, as well as changes to the denomination over the past 300 years. Emphasis will be placed on Brethren theological understandings and how these have impacted its history.  

To speak about polity is to explore how groups are organized and governed. In the Church of the Brethren, our polity grows out of our history, our practices, and our ecclesiology (who we are as a church). Talking about polity as ministers and members of the Church of the Brethren naturally uncovers who we are, what we do, and how we shape our lives together.  In this course, we will engage the current and past polity of the Church of the Brethren in order to understand how it has, and continues to, shape “another way of living.”

A practical exploration of the gifts and challenges specific to Interim/Transitional Ministry. It is designed to explore the necessary tasks for successful Interim/Transitional Ministry and the personality characteristics most helpful to develop for the practice of this specialized area of congregational leadership. We will examine the unique calling of persons to walk with congregations in both simple interim and long term intentional ministry situations.

The practice course is designed to give you a brief understanding of Moodle.