These courses and materials are available to students regardless of location.
- Teacher: Bo Crowe
- CH501offers a survey of Christian history from the first through the fifteenth centuries, emphasizing major events and personalities, pivotal schools of historical interpretation, significant Christian literature and doctrinal developments, and key stages in the evolution of ecclesiastical structures. Pod casts, readings, online discussions, written papers, internet resources, and electronic media are used to present the most significant persons, events, problems, and theological developments.
Leadership is a key issue for the 21st century church.As one might expect, there are any number of approaches to Christian leadership.A forum for such discussion is The Leadership Summit, an annual conference of the Willow Creek Association, which attracts leaders from the church, the marketplace, government, and academia.The main sessions are held at the South Barrington, Illinois, campus of Willow Creek Community Church and telecast live to a number of sites around the country. A student may participate at any satellite location and participate in this online course.
- course on Ecclesiology
Introduction to Homiletics is a course designed to serve as an orientation for the Student-Preacher to a general, but yet, critical understanding of the complicated task of preaching.This orientation focuses on four major areas of study that are intimately related to the conceptualization and performance of preaching.These areas include: (1) an examination of the interpretive history of preaching; (2) an investigation of preaching as a theological discipline; (3) an analysis of the major approaches to sermon preparation and delivery; and (4) an exploration of the issues and problems in contemporary studies of preaching.The goal of such a study is to better understand the practice of preaching.
