Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) Courses

ETHNIC IMMIGRANT INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY (EIIT) COURSES

EIIT courses are listed in the sequence of the curriculum.

Pastoral ministry

PRA441 Introduction to Pastoral Ministry

This is an introductory course on the Lutheran way of pastoral ministry introducing students to the Lutheran conception of ordained pastoral ministry and its basic tasks and responsibilities in using the Word of God in preaching, teaching, administration of the sacraments and worship; evangelism; and spiritual care. The course emphasizes the importance of faithful practice in responding to the needs of people and gives students the opportunity to acquire and/or refine basic skills needed in ministry. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisite: none

EXE441 Reading the Bible Faithfully

This is an introductory course on faithfully reading and using the Bible in pastoral or diaconal ministry. Students learn the basic biblical story and how the Bible is used in the preaching and/or teaching ministry (as applicable) of the church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisite: PRA441

PRA455 Lutheran Worship [Short Course]

This course focuses on introducing, explaining and participating in basic tasks of Lutheran worship services. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

EXE442 Faithfully Reading the Gospels

This is a course on faithfully reading the New Testament Gospels as the story of the saving work of Jesus Christ told in four different ways by four different Gospel-writer-theologians. The course demonstrates how faithful reading of the Gospels leads to faithful preaching and/or teaching of the Gospel. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA442 Pastor as Preacher

This is a course on the preaching ministry of the pastor that emphasizes the pastor’s role in preaching the Word of God. Basic models of sermon design are considered. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA443 Care in the Congregation

This is a course emphasizing that leadership in the congregation is directly related to the congregation’s perception of the spiritual care for its people. Various kinds of situations when spiritual care is needed and the pastor’s or deaconess’, role in these situations are considered. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

EXE443 Faithfully Reading the Epistles of Paul

This is a course on faithfully reading the Pauline Epistles as God-given guides to the faith and life of the Christian church. Using the letters to the Romans and to the Galatians, the course demonstrates how the messages of the Pauline Epistles are taught faithfully today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

SYS441 The Christian Faith

This is a course on the Christian faith as summarized by the Ecumenical Creeds and the Augsburg Confession focusing on what a confession of faith is; how a confession of faith is essential to the life of the church; how the confessions of faith in the Ecumenical Creeds and the Augsburg Confession are faithful to the witness of the Scriptures; and how the Ecumenical Creeds and Augsburg Confession serve to summarize what is believed and to offer guidance for faithful life and witness (normative function). Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

HIS455 Missouri Synod Fellowship [Short Course]

This is a short course on church fellowship as it has been practiced by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the past and as it is practiced today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA444 Teaching the Christian Faith

This is a course on teaching the Christian faith as summarized and confessed in the Small Catechism. Students learn about the catechisms as handbooks for Christian faith and life based on the Scriptures and how to relevantly teach the Small Catechism to a wide variety of people in diverse contexts. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA445 Witness and Evangelism

This is a course in evangelism as witness to Jesus Christ. Students learn how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is both the reason for and the content of Christian witness and how to witness to Christ faithfully and authentically in their cultural context. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA446 Servant Leadership

This is a course emphasizing pastoral and diaconal roles in helping a congregation manage its affairs as good stewards in the context of its local community, particularly emphasizing their respective roles as the congregation faces change and addresses opportunities for service. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

SYS442 Confessing the Faith Today

This is a course on the Christian faith giving explicit attention to the role of the Lutheran Confessions in the life and work of the Lutheran church today. The confessions are discussed in their original historical-cultural context and applied as living documents to challenges confronting the 21st-century church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

HIS441 Christians Engage the World

This is a course in church history emphasizing how God has led the church from its beginning to find convincing and creative solutions to questions and challenges as it has entered new cultural contexts and faced both periods of persecution and periods of acceptance. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA456 Witness and Evangelism Practicum [Short Course]

This is a short course on the practice of evangelism, focusing on recognizing opportunities and challenges, in witness and preparing the congregation and its members for witness in its community. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

EXE444 Faithfully Reading the Old Testament

This is a course on using the Old Testament in a Christian congregation, emphasizing the continuity between the Testaments as the story of the God who saves His people and sends them out to be a blessing for others. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

SYS443 Means of Grace

This is a course on the Means of Grace that connects Lutheran doctrine and practice with the teachings of the Scriptures and emphasizes clear explanation of the doctrine and the faithful use of the Means of Grace in the congregation. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA447 Worship and the Word

This is a course that brings together preaching, teaching and worship emphasizing the pastor’s role in leading the congregation’s worship life. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA448 Contextualized Counseling

A course focusing on the need to provide contextually appropriate counsel to congregation members and possibly other members of the community. Theoretical and practical consideration of contextually appropriate counseling foundations, basic techniques and practices as these pertain to parish and community ministries will be covered, with a view toward developing a personal methodology approach to pastoral/

diaconal care for individuals and families integrating Law and Gospel. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

EXE445 Basic New Testament Theology

This is a course enabling students to identify and summarize the basic teachings of the New Testament and use them in communicating the Good News of Jesus to the congregation and the world. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA457 Church Administration [Short Course]

This is a short course on administrative practices, planning and organization in the congregation. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

HIS442 The Lutheran Church: Then and Now

This is a course on the history of the Lutheran church from its beginning with Luther in Wittenberg to the global movement in Christendom that it is today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

HIS443 Lutherans and Other Denominations

This is a course dealing with other churches and sects that have their roots in the Lutheran Reformation but have developed their doctrine and practice in other ways. Attention is also given to the 21st-century Roman Catholic Church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

PRA449 The Lutheran Pastor

This is a capstone course on the Lutheran way of pastoral ministry. This summary course prepares students for their certification interview and to responsibly affirm the ordination oath. The course ascertains that the connection between the disciplines and the actual practice of ministry has been made. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

ETHNIC IMMIGRANT INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY (EIIT) COURSES

Diaconal ministry

PRA4412 Introduction to Diaconal Ministry

This course introduces students to the Lutheran concept of consecrated diaconal ministry and its attendant basic tasks and responsibilities in using the Word of God in teaching, scriptural study, evangelism, outreach, lay-role facilitation, acts of mercy and spiritual care. The course emphasizes the importance of faithful practice in responding to people’s needs and gives students the opportunity to acquire and refine basic skills of ministry. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisite: none

EXE441 Reading the Bible Faithfully

This is an introductory course on faithfully reading and using the Bible in pastoral or diaconal ministry. Students learn the basic biblical story and how the Bible is used in the preaching and/or teaching ministry (as applicable) of the church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisite: PRA4412

PRA455 Lutheran Worship [Short Course]

This is a course focusing on introducing, explaining and participating in basic tasks of Lutheran worship services. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

EXE442 Faithfully Reading the Gospels

This is a course on faithfully reading the New Testament Gospels as the story of the saving work of Jesus Christ told in four different ways by four different Gospel-writer-theologians. The course demonstrates how faithful reading of the Gospels leads to faithful preaching and/or teaching of the Gospel. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA4421 Diaconal Care in Times of Distress

This is a course examining various ways in which members of the congregation or community may suffer distress, and the role of the deaconess both in providing spiritual care in those situations and in facilitating appropriate support for the member from the laity. Practical guidelines and the deaconess’ Scripture-based teaching will be considered in the context of situations in which diaconal care is needed. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA443 Care in the Congregation

This is a course emphasizing that leadership in the congregation is directly related to the congregation’s perception of the spiritual care for its people. Various kinds of situations when spiritual care is needed and the pastor’s or deaconess’, role in these situations are considered. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

EXE443 Faithfully Reading the Epistles of Paul

This is a course on faithfully reading the Pauline Epistles as God-given guides to the faith and life of the Christian church. Using the letters to the Romans and to the Galatians, the course demonstrates how the messages of the Pauline Epistles are taught faithfully today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

SYS441 The Christian Faith

This is a course on the Christian faith as summarized by the Ecumenical Creeds and the Augsburg Confession focusing on what a confession of faith is; how a confession of faith is essential to the life of the church; how the confessions of faith in the Ecumenical Creeds and the Augsburg Confession are faithful to the witness of the Scriptures; and how the Ecumenical Creeds and Augsburg Confession serve to summarize what is believed and to offer guidance for faithful life and witness (normative function). Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

HIS455 Missouri Synod Fellowship [Short Course]

This is a short course on church fellowship as it has been practiced by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the past and as it is practiced today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA444 Teaching the Christian Faith

This is a course on teaching the Christian faith as summarized and confessed in the Small Catechism. Students learn about the catechisms as handbooks for Christian faith and life based on the Scriptures and how to relevantly teach the Small Catechism to a wide variety of people in diverse contexts. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA445 Witness and Evangelism

This is a course in evangelism as witness to Jesus Christ. Students learn how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is both the reason for and the content of Christian witness and how to witness to Christ faithfully and authentically in their cultural context. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA446 Servant Leadership

This is a course emphasizing pastoral and diaconal roles in helping a congregation manage its affairs as good stewards in the context of its local community, particularly emphasizing their respective roles as the congregation faces change and addresses opportunities for service. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

SYS442 Confessing the Faith Today

This is a course on the Christian faith giving explicit attention to the role of the Lutheran Confessions in the life and work of the Lutheran church today. The Confessions are discussed in their original historical-cultural context and applied as living documents to challenges confronting the 21st-century church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

HIS441 Christians Engage the World

This is a course in church history emphasizing how God has led the church from its beginning to find convincing and creative solutions to questions and challenges as it has entered new cultural contexts and faced both periods of persecution and periods of acceptance. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA456 Witness and Evangelism Practicum [Short Course]

This is a short course on the practice of evangelism focusing on recognizing opportunities and challenges in witness and preparing the congregation and its members for witness in its community. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

EXE444 Faithfully Reading the Old Testament

This is a course on using the Old Testament in a Christian congregation, emphasizing the continuity between the Testaments as the story of the God who saves His people and sends them out to be a blessing for others. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

SYS443 Means of Grace

This is a course on the Means of Grace that connects Lutheran doctrine and practice with the teachings of the Scriptures and emphasizes clear explanation of the doctrine and the faithful use of the Means of Grace in the congregation. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA4471 Deaconess as Bible Teacher

This is a course on the teaching ministry of the deaconess that emphasizes the deaconess, role in teaching the Word of God to adult (particularly women’s) Bible study groups. Basic teaching models are considered. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA448 Contextualized Counseling

This is a course focusing on the need to provide contextually appropriate counsel to congregation members and possibly other members of the community. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA441 and EXE441

EXE445 Basic New Testament Theology

This is a course enabling the student to identify and summarize the basic teachings of the New Testament and use them in communicating the Good News of Jesus to the congregation and the world. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA457 Church Administration [Short Course]

This is a short course on administrative practices, planning and organization in the congregation. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

HIS442 The Lutheran Church: Then and Now

This is a course on the history of the Lutheran church from its beginning with Luther in Wittenberg to the global movement in Christendom that it is today. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

HIS443 Lutherans and Other Denominations

This is a course dealing with other churches and sects that have their roots in the Lutheran Reformation but have developed their doctrine and practice in other ways. Attention is also given to the 21st-century Roman Catholic Church. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441

PRA4491 The Lutheran Deaconess

This is a capstone course on the Lutheran way of diaconal ministry. This summary course prepares students for their certification interview and responsible affirmation of the deaconess oath. The course ascertains the extent to which the connection between the disciplines and the actual practice of diaconal ministry has been made. Credits: 0.00 Prerequisites: PRA4412 and EXE441