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• A Short History of Pastoral Ethics
• Abandonment to the Will of God
• Abbah Isaiah of Scetis and Barsanuphius and John
• Abuse of Power in Ministry
• Advanced Seminars
• Advent
• Anger: The Deadliest Sin?
• Apophthegmata Patrum: The Desert Fathers on Prayer, Compunction and Spiritual Direction
• Athanasius and the Cappadocians on the Holy Spirit
• Athanasius on the Incarnation
• Augustine and Pelagius on Freedom and Grace
• Augustine and Pelagius on Human Freedom Sin and Grace
• Augustine and the Donatists on the Purity of the Church
• Augustine and the Manichaeans on Evil
• Augustine Confessions I-V
• Augustine Confessions VI-VII
• Augustine Confessions VIII-XIII
• Augustine Lectures 6-9
• Augustine on Faith Hope and Love
• Augustine on Faith Hope and Love
• Augustine on Lying
• Augustine on Pastoral Ministry
• Augustine on Suicide
• Augustine On the Trinity
• Augustine Seminar Lectures 1-5
• Augustine Syllabus
• Augustine's Moral and Pastoral Theology
• Background of the Pelagian Controversy
• Baptism
• Baptism in the New Testament
• Bernard of Clairvaux on Loving God
• Bernard of Clairvaux's Life and Works
• Bibliography of Readings for Use in the Training of Spiritual Directors
• C.V.
• Calvin on Church and Baptism
• Calvin on the Lord's Supper
• Case Studies on Conflict in the Church
• Case Studies on the Seven Deadly Sins
• Case Study on Confidentiality and Disclosure
• Case Study on Pastoral Sexual Misconduct
• Case Study on Pride and Vainglory
• Case Study on Telling the Truth and Deception
• Church and Church Order in Early Christian Teaching
• Clergy Sexual Misconduct
• Confession and Penance: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages
• Confession and Repentance: An Introduction
• Confidentiality and Mandatory Disclosure
• Conversion and Baptism in the Early Church
• Courses
• Covetousness: When Having Things Is the Most Important Thing
• Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory of Nyssa on the Lord's Prayer
• David Hume's Criticism of Miracles and Natural Religion
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Confessional Theology
• Differentiation from Judaism
• Discerning a Call to Ministry
• Divorce and Remarriage in Mark 10
• Dorotheos of Gaza
• Early Christian Biblical Interpretation: Typology and Allegory
• Early Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction
• Early Christians and Military Service
• Envy
• Evagrius Life and Summary of Eight Evil Reasonings
• Evagrius on Acedia (Akedia)
• Evagrius on Anger
• Evagrius on Anger Discussion of Principal Texts
• Evagrius on Avarice (Covetousness)
• Evagrius on Evil and Preexistence: The Origin and Fall of Rational Beings
• Evagrius on Gluttony
• Evagrius on Lust and Fornication
• Evagrius on Pride
• Evagrius on Sadness as a Deadly Sin
• Evagrius on Seeing God
• Evagrius on the Psychology of Action
• Evagrius on Vainglory
• Factors Contributing to the Compulsive Use of Pornography
• Factors Involved in Clergy Burnout
• Faith and Reason in Anselm's Proslogion
• Falling Out of Love: Acedia (Akedia) and Spiritual Apathy
• Fasting
• Final Exam for Prayer and Spirituality 2018
• Forced Exits
• Forgive Us Our Debts
• Friendship Morality and the Spiritual Life
• Further Development of the Liberal Political Tradition
• George Herbert: Poet and Pastor--The Country Parson
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
• Greco-Roman Religion and the Early Christian Apologists
• Hallowed Be Your Name
• Historical Theology I Final Exam
• Historical Theology I Lectures
• Historical Theology I Syllabus
• Historical Theology I: Doctrine and Spirituality of the Early Church
• Historical Theology II Final Exam
• Historical Theology II Final Exam Study Guide
• Historical Theology II Lectures 1-10
• Historical Theology II Syllabus
• Historical Theology II: Doctrine and Spirituality of the Medieval Church
• Historical Theology III Final Exam
• Historical Theology III Final Exam Review Sheet
• Historical Theology III Lectures 1-6
• Historical Theology III Lectures 12-16
• Historical Theology III Lectures 7-11
• Historical Theology III Syllabus
• Historical Theology III: Doctrine and Spirituality of the Reformation
• Historical Theology IV Lectures 1-6
• Historical Theology IV Lectures 7-11
• Historical Theology IV Syllabus
• Historical Theology IV: Secularization, Spirituality and Ministry in the Modern Period
• Historical Theology Lectures 11-20
• Historical Theology Lectures 17-20
• Holy Baptism: A Brief Introduction
• How to Plan a Spiritual Retreat
• Intro to Augustine's Life and Works
• Intro to European Society in the Middle Ages
• Introduction to Sahidic Coptic
• Introduction to Sahidic Coptic Syllabus
• J.S Mill On Liberty and Toleration
• Jean Gerson on Mystical Theology
• Jean Gerson on Spiritual Discernment (Discernment of Spirits)
• Johann Arndt as a Precursor of Lutheran Pietism
• Johann Arndt's True Christianity
• Johann Gerhard and Lutheran Devotional Literature
• Johann Gerhard's Devotional Works
• John and Charles Wesley
• John Cassian
• John Locke on Toleration
• Julian of Norwich
• Late Medieval Mystical Traditions
• Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Le Cantique spirituel de Jean-Joseph Surin
• Lead Us Not Into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil
• Lectures 1-10
• Lectures 11-20
• Lectures 12-15
• Legal Issues
• Legal Issues: Invasion of Privacy and Defamation
• Life of John Calvin
• Lord's Prayer Summary
• Ludwig Feuerbach and Sigmund Freud on Projection
• Lust and the Healing of Disordered Desire
• Luther on Baptism
• Luther on Justification
• Luther on Suffering and Spiritual Warfare
• Luther on the Lord's Supper
• Luther on the Pastoral Office and Confession
• Luther on Trials (Anfechtungen) and the Temptation to Despair
• Luther's Theology of the Cross
• Marital Infidelity: Risk Factors and Rebuilding the Marriage
• Marriage and Divorce Summary Outline
• Marriage Divorce and Remarriage
• Marriage Divorce and Remarriage Lecture
• Martyrdom-Reading the Stories of the Martyrs
• Meditating on the Psalms
• Moral and Legal Issues in Spiritual Direction
• Moral and Legal Issues in Spiritual Direction Bibliography
• Moral Issues Final Exam
• Moral Issues Final Exam
• Moral Issues Final Exam Review Sheet
• Moral Issues Lectures
• Moral Issues Syllabus
• New Age Religion and Secularization
• Origen on Prayer
• Our Father: What Fatherhood Really Means
• Pastoral Competences in the Anglican Tradition
• Pastoral Ethics
• Pastoral Ethics Case Studies
• Penance, Indulgences and Beginning of the Reformation
• Persecution Apostasy and the Controversy Over Restoring the Lapsed
• Prayer and Lectio Divina in the Benedictine Tradition
• Prayer and Pastoral Care in Gregory the Great's Pastoral Rule
• Prayer and Spirituality Final Exam 2011
• Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church Syllabus
• Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church: Spiritual Direction and Pastoral Care in the Greek Fathers
• Prayer and Spirituality Lectures 1-5
• Prayer and Spirituality Lectures 6-21
• Prayer in the Early Church
• Prayer in the Early Church
• Praying for Sanctification and Greater Love of God
• Pride
• Puritan Conceptions of the Church
• Puritanism and Social and Religious Fragmentation
• Radical Pietism: Gerhard Tersteegen and Gottfried Arnold
• Religious Disaffiliation: The Rise of the Nones
• Repentance
• Responding to Conflict in the Church
• Review for Prayer and Spirituality Final Exam 2011
• Review for Prayer and Spirituality Final Exam 2018
• Review of Repentance and Confidentiality
• Richard Baxter on Self Examination and Christian Marriage
• Romans 6: Baptism into the Death of Christ
• Rules for the Discerning of Spirits
• Secuarlization and Evangelical Christian Response
• Secularization and Its Implications for the Ministry of the Church
• Seeking Peace: Biblical Teaching on Peace
• Self-Examination (The Examen)
• Sexual Misconduct in Ministry Supplemental Handout
• Sexual Misconduct in Pastoral Ministry
• Speaking Peace: Meditating on Ps 122
• Spener Francke and Lutheran Pietism
• Spiritual Discernment
• Spiritual Gifts New Testament passages
• Stress and Burnout in Pastoral Ministry
• Stress in Pastoral Ministry
• Summary of Clergy Health and Clergy Stress Research
• Summary of Steve Bruce on Secularization
• Survey Courses
• Synopsis of Anselm Why God Became Man
• Synopsis of Basil on the Holy Spirit
• Taking a Closer Look At Personal Stressors: The Pie Plate Chart
• Telling the Truth
• Tertullian and Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer
• The Arian Crisis
• The Baptism of Children in the Early Church
• The Cloud of Unknowing
• The Development of the New Testament Canon
• The Divinity of the Holy Spirit
• The Effects of Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Perspectives from the Abused
• The English Reformation
• The Heart Chart: How We Respond to Temptation
• The Lord's Prayer
• The Lord's Supper
• The Morality of Forgiveness
• The Nature and Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
• The Rise of Asceticism
• The Roots of Christology
• The Rule of St. Benedict
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• The Transition from Scholasticism to Rationalism
• Themes in Christian Spirituality
• Thomas Aquinas on the Atonement
• Thomas Aquinas on Transubstantiation
• Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways
• Toward Uniformity: Charismatic and Institutional Authority in the Early Church
• Training Spiritual Directors: Content and Competencies
• Training the Next Generation of Spiritual Directors
• Undue Influence and Legal Responsibility for Employees
• Vainglory
• Vocational Discernment: Testing a Call from God
• Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection
• What It Means to Be a Seminary Professor
• Whose Orthodoxy? Docetism, Encratism, Gnosticism
• Women and Ministry in the Early Church
• Writing the Life of a Saint: Spiritual Biographies and the Life of Pachomius
• Your Kingdom Come Your Will Be Done
• Zinzendorf and the Moravians