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110 CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS This department equips Christians to better defend and apply their Christian worldview in order to extend the mission of God in building up the church and reaching the lost through apologetics, evangelism, and cultural discernment. Courses develop a coherent Christian worldview by which to live and minister authentically. CA 500 Apologetics and Ethics This course helps students develop a Christian worldview that can be defended as objectively true, rational, and pertinent to all of life, and develop a Christian moral philosophy that can meet the challenges of the day. Three hours. CA 550 Religious Pluralism Explores claims of Christian uniqueness and exclusivity relating to theories of comparative religion. Other world religions will be compared with Christianity. Includes fieldwork with adherents to other faiths. Three hours. CA 591, 691 Individualized Study in Christian Apologetics These course numbers are reserved for courses that are designed to free the student for independent investigation in Christian Apologetics under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours. HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY Building upon the biblical foundation of the faith, this department acquaints students with the development of Christianity from its inception to the present. By studying the past, prospective ministers understand in depth both the message they are to preach and the mission they are to fulfill. By using guided readings in original sources, doing assigned research, and integrating lectures and discussions, students gain an overview of Christianity's expansion, teachings and witness, learn to formulate Christian doctrine accurately, and deepen their appreciation for historic Christianity. CH 500 History of the Christian Movement Provides an overview of the expansion of the Christian faith from its origins in first century Jerusalem to its global influence in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Major events, ideas, people, and forces are introduced that have facilitated as well as hindered the growth of Christianity through the centuries. By developing a historical, theological, and apologetic foundation, subsequent seminary courses are undergirded, and a context as well as motivation for both personal and corporate ministry is provided. Three hours. CH 551 Anglican History and Theology I: Foundations This course will explore the unfolding of the English Reformation and the formularies it produced. Beginning with the medieval English affective tradition, moving through the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1571, and ending with Richard Hooker, we will explore the evolving self-understanding of a church that described itself as both catholic and reformed. The course provides an introduction to Anglican tradition, as both a survey of the foundations of Anglican identity and a rich set of resources for contemporary Christian life and ministry. Three hours. CH 552 Anglican History and Theology II: Development of the Tradition This course surveys the key characters, crises, and developments which shaped the Anglican tradition from the career of Richard Hooker to the rise of global Anglicanism. Attention is given to key controversies of the late sixteenth- through the early eighteenth-centuries over ecclesiastical divisions,

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