Course Syllabus
Instructor: Jeffrey Mahan, M.Div, Ph.D. and Valerie Jackson, M.Div, D.Min
E-mail: jmahan@iliff.edu, vjackson@iliff.edu
Course Synopsis
A praxis course is designed to provide experiential education in the practices of ministry that students at Iliff are likely to engage in their professional lives. They are an occasion to work on the integration of theory and practice in a specific area of ministry, in this case ministry at the end of life. In this praxis we hope to engage actual practices of ministry involved in accompanying the dying and bereaved, such as meeting with the family, planning a service, providing pastoral care, conducting the funeral using the ritual of your tradition, etc.
In this course, we will be making use of a variety of learning styles including reading and discussion, field research and role play in order to allow participants to have embodied experience with various ministry encounters that may arise at the time of death. It will be important for all the participants to engage in the full range of learning styles. Please note that there are three advanced assignments that you need to complete between now and our gathering on February 19 and 20th. There is not a post seminar paper to write, so your successful completion of this Ministry Praxis depends on your engaged participation and completing the advanced assignments.
Jackson and Mahan.Funerals Ministry Praxis.BV2200.Winter.2016-1.docx (click to download revised introductory letter.
Books for the Course:
The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and a Community of Care, Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2013. ISBN 10: 066423853X or ISBN 13: 978-0664238537 (Please read Chapters 1,3,4, 7 and 8). Purchase or access through a library.
And,
Wherry, Peter M. 2013. Preaching Funerals in the Black Church: Bringing Perspective to Pain. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. Selected chapters posted below at the "One Additional Reading," no need to purchase.
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