- Teacher: Matt Boersma
Bethany Theological Seminary's Moodle-X
Available courses
This course will focus on
the history of Christianity from the 1500s up to the present day
- Teacher: Josh Brockway
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.
- Teacher: Craig Gandy
During this course, we will not be using a single textbook. Instead, readings have been provided in Moodle from a variety of sources. Rather than speed reading through the entire Hebrew Bible, we will instead closely read specific sections of the Hebrew Bible. We will use the textbook A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by John J. Collins as a starting place to explore the Hebrew Bible. While time will not allow a full reading of the Hebrew Bible, we will read some from most of the books and discuss them, the textbook, and other readings. At the end of the course, you will turn in a project, though the form of the project is up to you, the student. It can be a sermon, an adult lesson plan, a traditional research paper, or another project.
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
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.”
- Teacher: Torin Eikler
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the broad scope of Brethren history. Students should become able to identify key terms, persons, themes, and events within Brethren history.
- Teacher: Denise Kettering
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.
- Teacher: Tara Hornbacker
- Teacher: Audrey Hollenberg-Duffey
The practice course is designed to give you a brief understanding of Moodle.
This course will explore different ways in which people learn.
- Teacher: Gene Hollenberg
- Teacher: Josh Brockway
- Teacher: Dan Poole
- Teacher: Richard Wehrle
- Teacher: Denise Kettering
Este curso es una oportunidad para conocer los papeles que ayudan pastores con su administración y práctica como líderes en la Iglesia de los Hermanos. Leeremos los textos que nos guían de la Biblia y entenderemos los principales que nos ayudan tener una comunidad que enfoque en la misión que Dios nos ha dado. Discutiremos maneras de funcionar que levanta la vida de la congregación y son saludable para los pastores también. Reflexionemos en los característicos de un líder en la iglesia y planificamos ideas por el servicio que viene en cómo podemos mejorar nuestro ministério. Todos van a participar por medio de Moodle donde semanalmente van a recibir enseñanza y tarea, videoconferencias por Zoom y conversaciones con los estudiantes y profesora durante la semana.
- Teacher: Aida Sanchez
- Teacher: Ramon Torres
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
- Teacher: John Fillmore
- Teacher: Matt Boersma
- Teacher: Gene Hollenberg
- Teacher: Lexi Aligarbes
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Karen Duhai
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Carolyn Hiatt
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Doug Macias
- Teacher: Terri McDonough
- Teacher: Terri Moses
- Teacher: Derek Parker
- Teacher: Kevin Poole
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
- Teacher: Maya Ballard
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Carolyn Hiatt
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Terri McDonough
- Teacher: Lisa Mola
- Teacher: Kevin Poole
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Karen Duhai
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Carolyn Hiatt
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Doug Macias
- Teacher: Terri McDonough
- Teacher: Kevin Poole
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
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- Teacher: Julia Allen
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Terri McDonough
- Teacher: Kevin Poole
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
- Teacher: Maggie Elwell
- Teacher: Joelle Hathaway
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.
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: April Vanlonden
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Jonathan Graham
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Julia Allen
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Erika Clary
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Karen Duhai
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Courtney Hess
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Terri McDonough
- Teacher: Kevin Poole
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
Faculty and Staff resources and conversations, including
* Teaching Faculty Addendum to the Employee Handbook (for Teaching Faculty)
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Elena Jones
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Paul Shaver
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Anthony Price
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Jeff Carter
- Teacher: Lori Current
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Tammy Glenn
- Teacher: Denise Kettering
- Teacher: Karen Schroeder
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
- Teacher: Pamela Fenner
- Teacher: Steven Schweitzer
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