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BIBLICAL AND MINISTRY STUDIES MINOR
Required Courses Department
Course Number
Credits
BMS 105 3 106 3 201 3 202 3 ___ 12 ___ ___ ___ 24
Course Title
Recommended Sequence Year/Semester
Introduction to the Old Testament ............... 1F Introduction to the New Testament .............. 1S Historical Theology.......................................... 2F Constructive Theology..................................... 2S Four courses to be selected from BMS..........................................1, 2, 3 or 4 Credits required for this minor
BIBLICAL AND MINISTRY STUDIES COURSE OFFERINGS
BMS 105. Introduction to the Old Testament 3 credits This course introduces students to the Old Testament as history, literature, and sacred story. An introduction to each book of the canon and Apocrypha/deuterocanon will be given in the course. BMS 106. Introduction to the New Testament 3 credits This course introduces students to the New Testament as history, literature, and sacred story. An introduction to each book of the canon will be given in the course. BMS 107. Religion in Human Experience 3 credits This course introduces students to various academic definitions of religion, the dimensions of religion, and the many scholarly methods used to study religion. The course also gives students opportunities to explore the nature of the sacred, the meaning of life, the possibility of life after death, and to give thought to other such personal questions and the answers to those questions. (Fall 2014 and alternate years) BMS 201. Historical Theology 3 credits Students will trace the historical development of Christian dogma, rooted in the writing of the Early Church “Fathers”; Medieval and Scholastic divines; Reformation thinkers, Counter-Reformation theologians, and Radical Reformers; and Recent Western Theological Movements (Liberal Protestantism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Political Theology, Modern and Post-modern influences). Prerequisites: BMS 105 and 106, or by permission of the instructor. (Fall 2014 and alternate years) BMS 202. Constructive Theology (formerly BMS 305 – 2010 WU Catalog) 3 credits Students will construct statements of faith (credos) as they contrast the main doctrines of different historically Christian traditions: Trinity, Creation/Fall/ Providence, Christology, Pneumatology, Christian Theological Anthropology, Ecclesiology, Soteriology, Eschatology/Consummation, General and Special Revelation. Prerequisite: BMS 201. (Spring 2015 and alternate years) BMS 205. Hebrew Prophets 3 credits This course will survey the background, context, and issues relevant to each of the books of the Old Testament prophetic literature. Students will research the primary resources and explore various issues of biblical scholarship within the limits of the English Bible. Prerequisite: BMS 105 or 106. (Spring 2014 and alternate years) BMS 206. The Historical Jesus 3 credits The course will provide students an opportunity to investigate original source material on the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth. Students will also evaluate current scholarly works that debate the reliability of the New Testament era