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87 care skills and practical ministry application. Prerequisite: CF 513 The Practice of Soul Care. Offered fall semesters. Two hours. CF 604 Readings in Patristic Spirituality Engages the wisdom for formation and soul care as presented by leading patristic spiritual authorities in the Christian tradition. Emphasis is on readings from the original sources informed by their historical and biographical backgrounds. Offered fall semesters, odd years. Two hours. CF 606 Scripture, Formation, and Soul Care Explores the role of Scripture as the primary text for spiritual formation and soul care. The formative power of psalm-praying, lectio divina, and imaginative meditation on Scripture will be studied and experienced. The Lukan parables, as dynamic sources for understanding and offering soul care, are also examined. Offered spring semesters. Two hours. CF 607 Incarnational Spirituality: Knowing God through Jesus Provides an opportunity to explore their image of God and the sources from which that image comes, primarily from His revelation in Jesus Christ. Students are challenged to encounter the living Jesus through Gospel stories 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 609 Mystical Theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church A survey of the principal theological themes of the Eastern Orthodox Church and their relation to Christian spirituality. Emphasis is on the inner connection between the gospel and the spiritual life, as interpreted through the Greek church fathers and ecumenical councils from the second to the fourteenth centuries. Special attention is given to the desert fathers and mothers, and a classic collection of orthodox spiritual writings known as The Philokalia. 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 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. One hour.