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86 CF 607 Incarnational Spirituality: Knowing God through Jesus This course provides an opportunity to explore one's image of God and the sources from which that image comes, primarily from God's personal revelation in Jesus Christ. Students are challenged to encounter the living Jesus through Gospel stories, film, and assigned readings and to guide others into this experience. Offered fall semester, even years. Two hours. CF 608 Redemptive Suffering Explores the universal phenomenon of human suffering with attention to God's purposes for suffering in the lives of committed Christians. God-honoring responses and the transformational outcomes of suffering are explored. Offered summer session, odd years. Two hours. CF 610 Readings in Evangelical Spirituality This course engages the wisdom for formation and soul care as presented by leading Christian spiritual authorities in the Christian tradition from the Reformation to the present, with an emphasis on reading the original sources informed by their respective historical and biographical backgrounds. Offered fall semester, even years. Two hours. CF 611 Christian Formation and Soul Care Intensive This study provides live engagement with and participation in formational exercises and appropriate academic reading. Reflections, discussion, and interactions with the retreat director nurture life and ministry integration. Additional fees for food and lodging. Offered intersession, odd year. Two hours. CF 612 Supervised Project in Christian Formation This course allows students to practice what they have learned about Christian formation by designing and implementing a ministry project under the supervision of faculty. It is structured in a learning plan format, which requires independent and self-directed learning, in which the student identifies appropriate resources to carry out the project in an approved ministry setting. Offered summer sessions. One hour. CF 613 Christian Formation Retreat Experience This course provides an immersion in a personal formation experience during a 3-day residential retreat. The praxis is undergirded with appropriate academic reading and guided by a spiritual director with the goal of deeper knowledge of God and self. Additional fees apply for food and lodging. Offered summer sessions. One hour. CF 630 Theological Tensions and Spiritual Formation: Historical Studies Examines several core theological conflicts in Christian history that are of particular relevance to Christian spirituality. The historical contexts of the questions, the key thinkers and leaders, and the discourse and resolutions will be explored. Each development is then considered in light of the spiritual formation that issued out of the different positions in the conflict. These positions will be viewed as voices that shape spiritual formation, with a view toward better understanding directors' and directees' spiritual assumptions and positions. Offered spring semester, odd years. Two hours. CF 640 Following Christ in the Monastic Tradition Encourages students to develop deeper patterns and disciplines of spiritual formation by learning from the history and practices of Christian monasticism. Students will be invited to consider how an understanding of the religious life can inform, inspire, and reshape their own life of discipleship. There will be a focus on engaging with original monastic writers and sources, especially the Conferences of John Cassian. Offered intersession, even years. Two hours.