BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY (3 YEAR PROGRAMME)

COMPONENTS AND DISTRIBUTION OF CREDIT HOURS

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EIGTH SEMESTER

BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY (3 YEAR PROGRAMME)

COMPONENTS AND DISTRIBUTION OF CREDIT HOURS

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FOURTH SEMESTER

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SIXTH SEMESTER

Course Description:

Information Communications Technology-TSP 211                    3 Credits

Aim: This course is intended to help student learn the basics of computer use and simple operations of information communications technology needed to function in the 21^st century world.

Objective: Upon completion of this course students should understand the basic concepts of Word and perform other activities using different operating system that enable them to use the computer efficiently.

Content

Topics include: computer terminology, fundamental concepts and operations necessary to use computers, basic functions and familiarity with computer use, introduction to the windows, networking, word processing, spreadsheets, and databases; keyboarding skills and basic skills in file management utilities, word processing, spreadsheets, and graphical presentations in the Windows environment and basic essentials of PowerPoint use.

Reading List

Anderson, B and Horn, R. (2012). Community colleges in the information age: gain associated with students' use of computer technology. Journal of Educational Computing Research. 47(1), p. 56-65.

Greenhow, C and Gleason, B. (2012).Twitteracy: tweeting as new literacy practice. The Educational Forum. 76(4), 464-478 DOI: 10.1080/00131725.2012.709032

Lea, M and Jones, S. (2011). Digital literacies in higher education: exploring textual and technological practice. Studies in Higher Education, 36(4), 377-393. DOI: 10.1080/0307507100366402

Messineo, M. and DeOllos, I. (2005). Are we assuming too much? exploring students' perceptions of their computer competence. College Teaching. 53(2), p. 50-55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27559220

Moura, I. and Van Hattum-Janssen, N. (2011). Teaching a CS introductory course: a hands on approach. Computers and Education.56, p.475-483.

English for Tertiary Education(TSP 212)                                                              3 Credits

Course Description

Objective: By the end of this course, the students should have improved their paragraph-writing ability in English, developed the ability to construct paragraphs on the basis of topic, unity, coherence and cohesion, and developed the ability to recognize incorrect grammar and word choice in sentences and paragraphs.

Content: Composition in English, the introduction, the body-paragraph construction (topic, unity, coherence and cohesion)-, the conclusion, writing of summaries and reviews.

Reading List

Alam, QaiserZoha (1999). English Language Teaching in India: Problems and Issues. Delhi: Atlantic.

Dash, Santosh (2009).English Education and the Question of Indian Nationalism: A Perspective on the Vernacular. Delhi: Aakar.

Krishnaswamy, N. and LalithaKrishnaswamy (2006). The Story of English in India. Delhi: Foundation. 

Owusu-Ansah, A. (2010). English for Schools and Colleges. Vol. 2, 3rd ed. Tema: Adventist Press.

Rifai, N. (2010). “Attitude, Motivation and Difficulties Involved in Learning the English Language and Factors that Affect Motivation in Learning It”. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2, 5216-5227

TSP 305          Church Management                                               3 Credit hours

The objective is that at the end of the course students will be able to learn and apply simple management principles, such as Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling in a church setting.

Reading List

Berkley, James D., ed. Leadership Handbook of Management and Administration: Practical

Insight from a Cross Section of Ministry Leaders. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Co., 1994.

Chaffee, Paul. Accountable Leadership, A Resource Guide for Sustaining Legal, Financial, and Ethical Integrity in Today's Congregations revised and expanded. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

Heller, Anne Odin.Churchworks: A Well-Body Book for Congregations. Boston, MA: Skinner House Books, 1999.

James F., Jr., ed. Church Secretary's Communiqué; The Newsletter for Church Office Professionals. Cobble, Matthews, North Carolina: Christian Ministry Resources. Published monthly.

Shearn, Carol R. Wilton, The Church Office Handbook; A Basic Guide to Keeping Order.

TSP 418: Law for Pastoral Ministry                                              3 Credit hours

Objective: By the end of this course students will have a basic knowledge of the laws that relate to Christian ministry in Ghana so that they will be in a better position to guide those they lead to avoid trouble with the law.

Content

The course will examine the constitutional implications of the pastoral ministry; Human Rights and Freedoms; Church and state; Family Law-Types of marriage in Ghana, “Samansiw”, the Intestate Succession Law; Explain the Matrimonial Causes Act; the Wills Act; Labour Law; Contract Law; Land acquisition and registration procedures; Law and the pastoral ministry-Church legal liability-the concept of negligence, and its application, legal defenses to negligence; defamation-explanation, application and differences, liabilities, limitations, and restrictions; invasion of privacy, and their relevance to pastoral ministry; “undue influence”, and “Fiduciary duty” and its relevance to churches.

Reading List

Company Code (Act 175), Criminal Code (Act 29)

The 1992 Ghana Constitution

Contract Law

Intestate Succession Law (PNDCL111)

Land Title Registration (Act 152)

The Wills Act

CAP 127 – Marriage under the Ordinance

Research and Academic Writing (TSP 312)                                  3 Credit hours

Objective: Upon completion students will be able to read and critique a variety of academic essays in their areas of study.

Content

Topics to be treated include basic grammar and composition, reading and writing skills, referencing skills and avoiding plagiarism. The course will also involve training students to write from multiple sources as a preparation for doing research-based writing, synthesis essay writing for assessment and writing for academic presentation.

Reading List

Sarah Moore. The Handbook of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach. Open University Press,

2006

Stephen Bailey. Academic Writing: A Practical Guide for Students. Routledge Falmer, 2003.

Linda L. McCabe & Edward R. B. McCabe. University of California Press, 2010 (2nd edition)

By Kami Day; Michele Eodice.Librarian's tips. Utah State University Press, 2001.

Rowena Murray. Writing for Academic Journals. Open University Press, 2005

Communication Studies(TSP 221)                                                              3 Credit hours

Objective

By the end of this course, the student should have acquired the skills for special demands of academic writing, developed a good understanding of the application of various rhetorical functions in English, including description, definition, exemplification and classification, be better able to produce coherently written paragraphs, and be exposed to a variety of samples of academic writing.

Content

Topics to be discussed will include introduction to Academic Writing skills, definition, description, exemplification and classification as well as coherent paragraph writing and different samples of Academic Writing.

Reading List

Ury, William.Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations. New York: Bantam Books,

2007.

McKay, Matthew, Martha Davis, and Patrick Fanning.Messages: The Communication Skills

Book. Oakland, Calif: New Harbinger Publications, 2008.

Nichols, Michael P. The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve

Relationships. New York: Guilford Press, 2009. Internet resource.

Greene J.O. &, Burleson B. R; Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills.

Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

 Asante, Clement E. Press Freedom and Development: A Research Guide and Selected

Bibliography. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997.

TSP 325: Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking                            3 Credit hours

Objective

Students will recognise the contrast between inductive and deductive reasoning and the different types of support yielded by each and evaluate the quality of evidence confirming an empirical hypothesis about human conduct to maintain individual professional and scholarly discretion in the face of peer pressure and mob mentality.

Content

Inductive and deductive reasoning, evidence and the confirmation of hypotheses, deductive validity, inductive force, the difference between truth, knowledge and belief; rhetorical ploys and fallacies, and the construction, identification and assessment of arguments.

Reading List

Matthew Allen. Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Dan Ariely. Perfectly Irrational: The Unexpected Ways We Defy Logic at Work and at Home. Harper, 2010.

Mark Battersby. Enhancing Rationality: Heuristics, Biases, and the Critical Thinking Project. Guillaume Beaulac &Serge Robert, 2016.

Elliot D. Cohen (2009). Critical Thinking Unleashed.Rowman& Littlefield Publishers.

Martin Davies (2012). Computer-Aided Mapping and the Teaching of Critical Thinking.Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 27 (2):15-30.

Ghanaian Language (TSP 311)                                                                   3 Credits

Aim:

This course is aimed at helping students to learn the principles and rules governing the writing systems of the various Ghanaian Languages (i.e Akan, Ewe, Ga).

Objective

Upon completion students will be able to read, speak and write their particular Ghanaian Languages creditably to enhance their comprehension and articulation of the Bible message in the mother tongue.

Course Outline/Description

Special attention will be given to orthography and the use of appropriate registers and word collocation for these languages. Reading and comprehension exercises will also constitute a major part of this course. Language and culture, grammar and translation exercises will also be included in the course.

Bibliography

Akan

EWE

Akuetey, Caesar. 1995. "Are `le' and `li' dialectal variants in the Ewe language?."

Akuetey, Caesar. 1998/1999. "A preliminary of Yeegbe: Animist cult language in Eweland."

Callow, John C. 1973. "Two approaches to the analysis of meaning."

Duthie, Alan S. 1993. "Semantic diversity in Ewe words."

Dzameshie, Alex K. 1998/1999."Structures of coordination in Ewe."

Neeley, Paul. 1997. Review of African Rhythm: A northern Ewe perspective, by Agawu, Kofi.

Ring,  J.  Andrew. 1981. Ewe as a second language: A sociolinguistic survey of Ghana's central Volta region.

Ring, J. Andrew. 1991. "Three case studies involving dialect standardization strategies in northern Ghana."

Ansre, Gilbert. 1961. The tonal structure of Ewe. Hartford studies in linguistics, 1. Hartford: Hartford Seminary Foundation.

Duthie, A. S. 1996. Introducing Ewe linguistic patterns: a textbook of phonology, grammar, and semantics. Accra : Ghana Universities Press.

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Editor). 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth Edition. Dallas: SIL International.

Schneeberg, Nan and Prosper Kpotufe. 1966. Ewe Basic course. Bloomington.
Schneeberg, Nan and Prosper Kpotufe. Ewe pronunciation. Bloomington: Intensive Language Training Center, Indiana University.

Schneeberg, Nan and Prosper Kpotufe. Spoken Ewe. Bloomington: Intensive Language Training Center, Indiana University.

GA

M. E. KroppDakubu (1999). Ga-English dictionary with English-Ga Index. Accra: Black Mask Ltd. ISBN 9964-960-50-6.

M. E. KroppDakubu (2002). Ga Phonology.Legon: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

Bureau of Ghana Languages (1995).GaWiemɔKɛŊmaa.Accra:Bureau of Ghana Languages. ISBN 9964-2-0276-8.

Amartey, A. A. (1989). Beginners' Ga. Ga Society.

Introduction to Psychology(TSP 417)                                                                     3 credits

Aim

This course is intended to provide a broad overview of the concepts, theories and research in the exciting science of psychology.

Objectives

By the end of the course students will be able to explain human behaviour and discover the processes of how the human mind works.

Course Outline/Description

The course will treat the language, methods and tools of Psychology learning. Where does intelligence come from? How do people remember things? How does one person influence another? Human behaviours and the functioning of the human mind will also be treated.

Reading List

American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington DC: Author.

Forgas, J. P. (1992). Mood and the perception of unusual people: Affective asymmetry in memory and social judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 22, 531-547.

Kliegel, R. &Lindberger, U. (1993).Modeling intrusions and correct recall in episodic memory: Adult age differences in encoding of list context. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 617-637.

Kohlberg, L. (1973). Continuities in childhood and adult moral development revisited. In P. Baltes& K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Life-span development psychology: Personality and socialization. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Sternberg, R. J., Wagner, R. K., Williams, W. M., & Horvath, J. A. (1995).Testing common sense. American Psychologist, 50, 912-927.

Zajonc, R. B. &McIntosh, D. N. (1992). Emotions research: Some promising questions and some questionable promises. Psychological Science, 3, 70-74.                                     

TSP 421: Long Essay                                                                        6 Credit hours

BIBLE AND BIBLICAL LANGUAGE COURSES (9 REQUIRED)

TSB 101: Introduction to the Old Testament                                            3 credit hours

Aim

The aim of this course is to provide a brief background for the study of the Old Testament and a survey of the books of the Old Testament (OT).

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to use their knowledge of the background of the Old Testament to appreciate the theological nuances of the entire Bible.

Course Outline & Description

It covers the political and socio-religious setting of the Bible World, and a survey of the Old Testament in order to have a grasp of the leading themes and events such as lives of the Patriarchs, the Exodus and settlement in Canaan, the Monarchy in Israel and Judah, the exile and the Return. The Intertestamental period and its relevance to events in the New Testament are also discussed.

Reading List

Archer, Jr., Gleason A Survey of Old Testament Introduction.Revised edition.Moody, 1994.

Birch, Bruce C., Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen.  A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament.  Second edition.Abingdon, 2005. 

Broyles, Craig C. ed. Interpreting the Old Testament.A Guide for Exegesis.Baker, 2001. Evangelical scholars discuss methods of Old Testament exegesis and criticism for interpreting the text.

Collins, John J.  Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.  Fortress, 2004.  A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.  Fortress, 2007.

Dillard, Raymond and Tremper Longman III.An Introduction to the Old Testament.Zondervan, 1994.

Eissfeldt, O. The Old Testament: An Introduction. trans. P.R. Ackroyd. Harper and Row, 1965.The classic liberal Protestant introduction.

Harrison, R. K. An Old Testament Introduction.Eerdmans, 1979; Hendrickson, 2004.

Hill, Andrew E. and John H. Walton.A Survey of the Old Testament.Third edition.Zondervan, 2009.

Sweeney, Marvin A.  Tanak: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible.  Fortress, 2011. 

TSB 102: Introduction to the New Testament                                           3 Credit hours

Aim: To introduce the student to the New Testament documents and take them through a survey of the books in the New Testament.

Course Objective: By the end of the course, students should be able to answer questions related to the authorship, purpose, style of writing and message of some books in the New Testament.

Mode of Instruction: Direct lecture and student presentations.

Outline

Topics to be discussed included the New Testament World, the New Testament Canon, the Gospel according to Matthew, the Gospel according to Mark, the Gospel according to Luke, the Gospel according to John, Acts of the Apostles, Romans, 1 Corinthians and Galatians as well as 1 John, Jude and the Apocalypse

Reading List

Achtemeier, Paul J., Joel B. Green and Marianne Meyer Thompson.Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.

Bailey, Mark and Tom Constable.Nelson’s New Testament Survey, Discover the Background, Theology,  and Meaning of Every Book in the New Testament. Ed. Charles R. Swindoll and Roy B. Zuck.  Nashville Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1999.

Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the New Testament.New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Carter, Warreen. Seven Events that Shaped the New Testament World. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.

Drane, John. Introducing the New Testament.Oxford: Lion Hudson Plc, 1999.

Ekem, J.D.K. New Testament Concepts of Atonement in an African Pluralistic Setting.Accra: SonLife Press, 2005.

Powell, Mark Allan. Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey.Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2009.

Roetzel, Calvil J.. The World that shaped the New Testament. Rev. ed. Louisvill.e, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.

TSB 210: Beginners Biblical Hebrew         3 Credit hours

Aim

This course introduces students to the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of Old Testament Hebrew.

Objective

Upon completion of the course students will be in the position to read simple sentences in Biblical Hebrew and also do translations of simple Hebrew texts into other languages.

Content

Topics to be covered include the alphabet, vowels, dagesh, shevas, syllables, definite article, prepositions, gender and number of nouns, attributive and predicative usage of adjective, subject and demonstrative pronouns, segholates, noun construct, and pronominal suffixes on prepositions, particles and nouns. Basic vocabulary to enhance the reading of simple sentences in Hebrew is also covered.

Reading List

Futato, Mark. Beginning Biblical Hebrew. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003.

Katz, Eliezer and Even-Shoshan, Avraham.(1992). A New Classified Concordance of the             Bible.Kiryat-Sepher.

Kelley, P. H. (1992). Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar. Grand   Rapids,            Eerdmans.

Pratico, Gary and Miles van Pelt.Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar. Grand Rapids:       Zondervan, 2001.

Sagarin, James L. (1987). Hebrew Noun Patterns (Mishqalim): Morphology, Semantics, and Lexicon. Atlanta, Scholars.

Scott, William R. (1987). A Simplified Guide to BHS: Critical Apparatus, Masora,           Unusual Letters, & Other Markings. Berkeley, Bibal.

Seow, C. L. (1987). A Grammar for Bilical Hebrew. Nashville, Abingdon.

Simon, E., Resnikoff, I., and Motzkin, L. (1992).The First Hebrew Primer. Oakland, EKS.           Third edition.

Smith, Mark S. (1991). The Origins and Development of the Waw-Consecutive. Atlanta, Scholars.

Beginners’ Biblical Greek TSB 211: Beginners’ Biblical Greek             3 Credit hours

Aim: To introduce the student to Biblical Greek grammar and vocabulary.

Objective: By the end of the course, students should be able to do exercises on inflections in the tenses and declensions of nouns taught and do some simple translations from Greek to English.

Mode of Instruction: Direct lecture and pear group teaching.

Course Outline

1.     Introduction to B. Greek language/Alphabet/Syllabification etc.

2.     Present Indicative Active/Passive of Omega/Epsilon Omega ending verbs

3.     Imperfect Indicative Active/Passive of Omega/Epsilon Omega ending verbs

4.     First Declension Feminine Nouns

5.     First Declension Masculine Nouns

6.     Second Declension Masculine Nouns

7.     Second Declension Neuter Nouns

8.     Personal Pronouns

9.     Subject-Verb Agreement

10.  Prepositions

11.  Second Declension Adjectives

12.  Third Declension Nouns

13.  Present Imperative Active and Passive

Reading List

Aland, Barbara & Kurt Aland (eds). Nestle-Aland Greek-English New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1981.

Arndt, William, F. and Gingrich F. Wilbur.Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Cory, N.C. A Primer of Biblical Greek.Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Ekem, John D. & Seth Kissi. Essentials of Biblical Greek Morphology. Accra: SonLife Press, 2010.

Hadjiantoniou.Learning the Basics of New Testament Greek.Chattanooga: AMG Publishing, 1998.

Moule, C.F.D. An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.

Mounce, William D. The Analytical Greek Lexicon.  New York: Harper & Brothers publishers, 1993.

TSB 201: Old Testament and African Life and Thought             3 Credit hours

Aim:

This course is intended to help students to appreciate the relevance of certain African practices that find parallels in the Bible and how they made be modified to honour God.

Objective

Successful completion of this call will enable the student to make a comparison of some Old Testament practices such as marriage ceremonies, funerals, festivals, kingship, naming of children, worship with the African life and thought to help them appreciate the relevance of the African life and thought to the study of the Old Testament and be able to apply the Old Testament life and thoughts to the African context.

Outline

Topics to be treated include Old Testament practices such as marriage, funerals, festivals, kingship, naming of children and worship. From the African perspective there will be a discussion of African life and thought to help students appreciate the relevance of the African life and thought to the study of the Old Testament.

TSB 306: Intermediate Biblical Hebrew                                                    3 Credit hours

Aim

Being a continuation of the study undertaken in the Beginners Biblical Hebrew course, Intermediate Biblical Hebrew is intended to introduce students to the Perfect and Imperfect forms of the Qal, Nif’al, Pi’el, Pu’al, Hitpa’el, Hif’il, Hof’al stems of the strong verbs in Hebrew grammar.

Objective

By the end of the course students will improve upon their Hebrew vocabulary, to be able to do basic translations of texts in the Hebrew Bible with the aid of lexicons, and read short paragraphs of the Old Testament text.

Outline

The Perfect and Imperfect forms of the Qal, Nif’al, Pi’el, Pu’al, Hitpa’el, Hif’il, Hof’al stems of the strong verbs in Hebrew grammar; the Imperative, Infinitive construct and absolute, participles, jussive and Cohortative, He-directive nouns and also enable students add to their vocabulary to enable them do basic translations of texts in the Hebrew Bible with the aid of lexicons, and read short paragraphs of the Old Testament text.

Other areas to be covered are the Imperative, Infinitive construct and absolute, participles, jussive and Cohortative.

Reading List

Aland, Barbara & Kurt Aland (eds). Nestle-Aland Greek-English New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1981.

Arndt, William, F. and Gingrich F. Wilbur. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Cory, N.C. A Primer of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Ekem, John D. & Seth Kissi. Essentials of Biblical Greek Morphology. Accra: SonLife Press, 2010.

Hadjiantoniou. Learning the Basics of New Testament Greek. Chattanooga: AMG Publishing, 1998..

Moule, C.F.D. An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.

Mounce, William D. The Analytical Greek Lexicon.  New York: Harper & Brothers publishers, 1993.

Thayer, Joseph, H. Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Massachusettes: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2005.

Wenham, J.W. The Elements of New Testament Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Intermediate Biblical Greek (TSB 301)                                          3 Credit hours

Course Aim: To acquaint students with the basics of Biblical Greek morphology and syntax in preparation for the translation of the biblical text.

Course Objective: By the end of the course, students should be able to demonstrate their familiarity with some basic Greek morphology and syntax and translate some texts from the New Testament.

Mode of Instruction:

Direct lecture and pear group teaching.

Course Outline

1.     The Future Indicative Active

2.     The Middle verb, /future Passive with irregular Future Forms

3.     Future of Liquids, Nasals and Compound Verbs

4.     The Demonstratives

5.     First and Second Aorist Active

6.     Aorist Indicative Middle and Passive

7.     The Infinitive

8.     The Perfect Indicative Active, Middle and Passive Tenses and Pluperfect

9.     Participles

10.  The Subjunctive Mood

11.  Alpha-Omega, Omicron-Omega, and Mu-Iota verbs

12.  Translation of Greek New Testament Texts

13.  Translation of Greek New Testament Texts

Reading List

Aland, Barbara & Kurt Aland (eds). Nestle-Aland Greek-English New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1981.

Arndt, William, F. and Gingrich F. Wilbur.Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Cory, N.C. A Primer of Biblical Greek.Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Ekem, John D. & Seth Kissi. Essentials of Biblical Greek Morphology. Accra: SonLife Press, 2010.

Hadjiantoniou. Learning the Basics of New Testament Greek. Chattanooga: AMG Publishing, 1998.

Hudson, D.F. New Testament Greek: A Practical and Lively introduction to Koine, the Popular Greek Language of the First Century AD in which the New Testament was written, 9th ed. London: The English Universities Press Ltd., 1980.

Hudson, D.F. Teach Yourself New Testament Greek. London: The English Universities Press Ltd., 1960.

Jay, E.G.New Testament Greek - An Introductory Grammar. London: SPCK, 1958.

Moule, C.F.D. An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.

Mounce, William D. The Analytical Greek Lexicon.  New York: Harper & Brothers publishers, 1993.

TSB 326: Biblical Exegesis                                                                          3 Credits

Aim

The course is aimed at introduction students to the skill of exposition of the texts of the Bible. Considering that there are many genres in the Bible, only a survey of the major ones is possible in the present course.

Objective:

By the end of the course students will be able to recognize and handle appropriately by way of explanation, the major genres of the Bible.

Outline

Topics to be treated include the major genres of the Bible such as the Law, Prophecy, Historical Narrative, Gospel, Parables, Apologetic History, Epistles/Letters as well as the apocalypse. Also to be discussed is exegesis in historical perspective, historical-critical exegesis, structuralism, postmodernist exegesis, along with the philosophical presuppositions and cultural conditions, the methods and the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches and an  integrated  approach, to contextual exegesis.

Reading List

Gordon D. Fee, New Testament Exegesis: A handbook for students and pastors. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993

Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding the Bible. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.

Northrop Frye, Words With Power: Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature." New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovitch, 1990.

Robert M. Grant, Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.

John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay, Biblical Exegesis: a Beginner's Handbook. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987. An introduction to the different types of historical-critical methods used in the study of the Old and New Testaments.

Elliott E. Johnson, Expository Hermeneutics: An Introduction. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.

Ron Julian, David Crabtree and Jack Crabtree, The Language of God: A Common Sense Approach to Understanding and Applying the Bible. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002.

HISTORY, MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM COURSES (6 COURSES REQUIRED)

TSC 103: General Church History                                                             3 Credit hours

Aim

This is a course designed to give students a comprehensive view of the history of the Christian Church from its very beginnings.

Objective

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to draw lessons from Christian history to illuminate present Christian conduct in order to improve upon the future.

Course outline/Description

It begins with a study of the activities of the church as narrated in the Acts of the Apostles and other New Testament Books and moves on to consider the post apostolic period stretching to the Constantinian era and beyond. Particular attention is paid to the period of the persecutions, the role of the Church Fathers and other outstanding personalities of the period. The various controversies and their impact on the church are also examined in the light of the various Church councils that sought to give direction to the church.

Reading List

Benedetto, Robert.  The new Westminster dictionary of church history.  Louisville, Ky. ; London,

UK : Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: ancient, medieval, and modern. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 3rd. ed. 2007.

Cameron, Euan. Interpreting Christian history: the challenge of the churches' past. Malden, MA:

Blackwell, 2005.

Cross, F. L, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2005.

Feldmeth, Nathan P.  Pocket dictionary of church history.  Downers Grove, Ill. :InterVarsity

Press, 2008.

Ferguson, Everett, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. New York: Garland, 1990.

Heath, Gordon L. Doing church history : a user-friendly introduction to researching the history

of Christianity. Toronto: Clements Pub., 2008.

Koschorke, Klaus et. al. A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990:

a documentary sourcebook. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

TSC 407: The Reformation                                                             3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to introduce the student to the historical events that culminated in the Protestant Reformation of the 16^th Century as well as the events that followed this revolution.

Objective: The objective is help students examine the onset and aftermath of the Reformation in various European countries at the time and offer opportunity for a general study of the main personalities associated with the Reformation. At the end of the course the student should be able to explain the place of the Reformation in the history of the Church.

Mode of Instruction: Lectures, discussions and student presentations

Outline and Description

1. Introduction to Reformation studies
2. Background to the Reformation
3. The advent of the Reformation
4. Main personalities of the Reformation
5. The Reformation in various European countries
6. The Catholic Counter Reformation
7. The different faces of the Reformation
8. The Reformation and modern Christianity

Reading List

Bainton, Roland. The Reformation of the 16^th Century, Boston, Beacon Press, 1959.

Beard, Charles. The Reformation of the 16^th Century, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1962.

Cameron, E.The European Reformation, London, Oxford Press, 1991

Chadwick, Owen. The Reformation, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1968.

Elton, G.R., ed., Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648, N.Y. Macmillan, 1963.

Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity, Vol.2, San Francisco, Harper Collins Publishers, 1985.

McLelland, John. The Reformation and its significance today, Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1978.

DOCTRINE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS COURSE (6 COURSES)

Basic Christian Beliefs

Aim: To help beginning students in ministry understand the basics of the Christian Faith.

Objective: By the end of the course students will be able to give a general survey of the basics of the Protestant faith to in order to help others understand the basics of the Christian Faith.

Mode of Instruction: Lectures and student group work and presentations 

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Course
2. Knowledge of God: General Revelation and Special Revelation 
3. Doctrine of God: Name and Names of God
4. Doctrine of God: The Attributes of God
5. Doctrine of God: The Attributes of God continued 
6. Doctrine of God: The Trinity
7. Doctrine of Creation: Creator of Heaven and Earth
8. Introduction to Christology: The Chirstological Titles
9. Introduction to Christology: The Two Natures of Jesus Christ
10. Introduction to Soteriology: The Atonement and Victory over Evil
11. Introduction to Pneumatology
12. Introduction to Ecclesiology: The Marks of the Church
13. Introduction to Ecclesiology continued: The Sacraments 
14. Introduction to Eschatology: The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting 

Bibliography 

Kunhiyop, Samuel. African Christian Theology (Toledo, OH: Hippo Books, 2012)

Bediako, Kwame. Jesus in Africa (England: Regnum Books, 2000)

Guthrie, Shirley. Christian Doctrine (Louisville, KY: Westminster JohnKnox, 1994)

McGrath, Alistair. Christian Theology: An Introduction (England: Wiley-Blacwell, 2011)

Erickson, Milliard. Christian Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing, 2013)

Grudem, Wayne. Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Zndervan, 1994)

The Person and Works of Christ

Aim

This course is intended to provide a general biblical and theological background to the study of  person (Christology) and the works (Soteriology) of Jesus the Christ.

Objective: By the end of the course students will understand and be able to explain to others the identity of Jesus as both the Suffering Servant of God and the Son of Man.

Outline and Description

Topics to be treated include the meaning the identity of Jesus in the Bible and in the history of the Church, Christological titles in the New Testament, the eschatological event of salvation associated with the advent of Christ, interpretations of the Christ Event in various epochs of Christian history, including the 21^st century rise of Liberation Theology and African Christian theological articulations respecting the person and works of Christ.

Reading List

Asante, E. Jesus the Christ. A Survey of the Christological Quest.Kumasi: Wilas Press, 2009.

Aulen, Gustaf, Christus Victor. New York: Macmillan 1966.

Akrong, Abraham Ako, ‘Salvation in African Christianity’ in: Legon Journal of the Humanities. Vol. 12, 1999-2001.

Akrong, A.A, ‘Christology from an African Perspective’ in: J.S Pobee (ed), Exploring Afro-Christology. Franfurt: Peter Lang

Akrong, A.A, ‘Symposium: Towards a Theological perspective on Culture and Tradition-Towards a Theology of Evil Spirits and Witches’ in: Journal of African Christian Thought. Vol.4. No. 1, June 2000.

Ekem, John David Kwamena, New Testament Concepts of Atonement in an African Pluralistic Setting. Accra: Sonlife, 2005.

Ekem, John David Kwamena, Priesthood in Context: A Study of Priesthood in Some Christian and Primal Communities of Ghana and its Relevance for Mother Tongue Biblical Interpretation. Accra: Sonlife, 2009. Pp 39-41; 140-143; 153; 159-172.

Larbi, Emmanuel Kingsley, Pentecostalism: The Eddies of Ghanaian Christianity. Accra: SAPC, 2001.

McGrath, A. E. Christian Theology. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994

Stanton, G. The Gospels and Jesus.Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

TSD 106:        Introduction to Christian Ethics

Aim: To introduce students to methods and approaches to moral reasoning appropriate to Christian ministry.

Objectives:

By the end of this course, students should have begun to develop a method of moral reasoning which is theological, critical and reflective; to appreciate the complexity and ambiguity of moral decision-making; began to develop a method for dealing with moral casework in a ministerial context; to give a bird’s eye view of the ethical positions of some of the major figures of the Christian Church, thus enabling students to be able to identify their own ethical positions.

Course Outline

General Introduction; Introduction to morality and ethics; Divisions of Ethics; Sources of Ethical Norms; Introduction to Christian Ethics; Characteristics of Christian Ethics; Christian Liberty; Some Issues in Christian Ethics-Sexuality/ Homosexuality, Wealth and Poverty, Bribery and Corruption, War, Capital Punishment, Abortion

Reading List

Aboagye-Mensah, Robert &Kudadjie, Joshua N, The Christian Social Conduct:

         Christian Social Ethics for Everyone, Vol. 2 (Accra: Asempa Publishers, 1992)

Appiah, Kwame A., Experiments in Ethics (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Odozor, Paulinus I., Morality Truly Christian Truly African: Foundational, Methodological, and Theological Considerations (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014)

Kudadjie, Joshua N, Moral Renewal in Ghana: Ideals and Possibilities (Accra: AsempaPublisher, 1995).

Kuhse, Helga and Peter Singer, Bioethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)

Kunhiyop, Samuel W., African Christian Ethics (Nairobi: Hippo Books, 2008)

Niebuhr, R., An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2013).

_________Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, 2^nd Edition (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2013).

Nolland, Lisa, Chris Sugden& Sarah Finch (eds.), God, Gays and the Church: Human Sexuality and Experience in Christian Thinking (The Latimer Trust, 2008)

Ockham, William, The Basis of Morality According to William Ockham (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1988).

Omoregbe, Joseph, Ethics: A Systematic and Historical Study (Global Educational Services, England)

Stott, John, Issues Facing Christians Today (Basingstoke: Marshalls, 1984)

Schweiker, W. (ed.), The Blacwell Companion to Religious Ethics (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005)

Thiroux, Jacques P., Ethics: Theory and Practice, 6^th Edition (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998)

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY                                                            (9 COURSES)

TSF 110:        Preaching 1 (Theory)                                               3 credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to offer the student an understanding of the art of preaching and the craft of the preparation of sermons.

Objective: At the end of the course students will exhibit effective communication skills in their preaching of the Gospel.

Course outline and description: The importance of preaching in the ministry is discussed. Emphasis is placed on preaching as the exposition of the Word of God so the proper interpretation of the Bible is discussed. Other sources for sermon ideas as well as different types of sermons are explored. Students are exposed to a step-by-step method of deriving a message from the Word of God and applying it to the context of the hearers. Communication skills and the art of delivery of sermons are also discussed.

Reading List

Adams, J. E. Preaching with Purpose: The Urgent Task of Homiletics. Grand Rapids: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1986.

Adams, J. E. Truth Applied: Application in Preaching. Grand Rapids: Ministry Resources Library, 1990.

Akin, D. L., D. L. Allen and N. L. Mathews. Text-Driven Preaching: God’s Word at the Heart of Every Sermon. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2010.

Anyabwile, T. M. The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2006.

Azurdia, A. G. Spirit Empowered Preaching: The Vitality of the Holy Spirit in Preaching. Fearn, Ross-shire, Great Britain: Mentor, 2006.

Beeke, J. R. How to Evaluate Sermons. Darlington, UK: Evangelical Press, 2012.

TSF 207: The Practice of Preaching                                               3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to practice the art of preaching and receive class evaluation of student sermon.

Objective: Those who participate in this course will be able to gain insight into the preparation, experience the practice of preaching.

Course outline/description: This is a practical course which offers opportunities to students to grow in the art of preaching and communication of the gospel, as well as listening with fairness to the viewpoints of others. It will afford students the chance to receive feedback from their colleagues when they preach, so that they can improve upon their own performances on the basis of that.

Bibliography

Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Creative Preaching. Abingdon Preacher's Library Series. Nashville: Abingdon, 1980.

_______. Preaching As Theology & Art. Nashville: Abingdon, 1984.

Allen, Ronald J. Preaching the Topical Sermon. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Allen, O. Wesley, Jr. (ed.). The Renewed Homiletic. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

Allen, Ronald J. “A Code of Ethics for Preachers.” Encounter 66 (Autumn 2005): 343-348.

_____. Contemporary Biblical Interpretation for Preaching.

_____. Hearing the Sermon: Relationship / Content / Feeling. St. Louis: Chalice, 2004.

Bailey, Raymond. Hermeneutics for Preaching: Approaches to Contemporary Interpretations of Scripture. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992.

Holbert, John C. Preaching Old Testament: Proclamation and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.

O' Day, Gail R. and Long, Thomas G. Listening to the Word: Studies in Honor of Fred B. Craddock. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.

TSF 204:        Pastoral Care and Counselling                                            3 Credit hours

Aim: The course is intended to assist students acquire a better understanding of the nature and practice of pastoral care and counselling.

Objective: The course will equip students with the requisite skills needed to handle issues related to pastoral care and counselling in specific contexts of life and ministry.

Course outline and description

Introduction to Pastoral Care: Definitions, descriptions, ideas, concepts and limitations; The Imagery of Shepherding; Understanding Humans; Functions of Pastoral Care; Resources for Pastoral Care; Understanding Pastoral Counselling; Characteristics for Effective Counselling; Stages of Counselling

Reading List

Augsburger, David W., Pastoral Counselling Across Cultures (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986)

Collins, G. R., Christian Counselling: A Comprehensive Guide (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007)

Lartey, Emmanuel, Pastoral Counselling in Inter-Cultural Perspective: A Study of Some African (Ghanaian) and Anglo-American Views of Human Existence and Counselling (Frankfurt am Main/ Bern/New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1987)

Lartey, Emmanuel, In Living Colour: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counselling (London: Cassell, 1997)

Oden Thomas C., Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1983)

TSF 304:  Christian Marriage and Family Counselling               3 Credit hours

Aim: The course is designed to help students have a good understanding of what Christian Marriage is. Such an understanding is brought to bear on what the nature of Christian Marriage should be in the Ghanaian context.

Objective

By the end of the course students will learn the types of legal marriages in Ghana, how to contract them and how to deal with legal and theological pitfalls related to the institution. They will also learn how to prepare prospective couple for marriage.

Outline

Specific topics to be treated in the course include:

1. What is Marriage
2. Types of Marriage in Ghana
3. What is Christian Marriage
4. The Minister as a key Person in Marriage Counselling
5. An Overview of Counselling
6. Marriage Counselling in General
7. Premarital Counselling
8. Marriage Counselling
9. Family Counselling
10. Group Marriage Counselling
11. Family Life Education in the Church

References

All African Conference of Churches, Report of the All Africa Seminar on the Christian Home

and Family Life (Geneva: WCC/AACC, 1963)

Amevenku, Frederick M.(Ed), Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana: A Handbook for

Presbyters, Gavoss Educational Plc, Ltd. (Accra, 2016) Pages 125 to 134

Bruce, Daniel Yao, Marriage Guidance and Counselling: A Handbook for Marriage Counsellors

and Pastors, Akrong Publications Limited (Accra, 2014)

Clinebell, Howard, Basic Types in Pastoral Counselling: New Resources for Ministering to the Troubled (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966)

Dominian, Jack, Marriage, Faith and Love (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981)

Mack, Dana &Blankenhorn, David (eds) The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the

Toughest Questions (Grand Rapids/ Cambridge: W. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001

Nyomi, Setri (Ed), African Christian Families in the 21^st Century: A Guide, All Africa Conference of Churches, (Nairobi, 2000)

Nyomi, Setri, Happily Married? Yes, it is possible, Sonlife Press (Accra, 2010)

TSF 209 Introduction to Christian Education                                           3 credit hours

Aim: The course is designed to introduce students to the skills and strategies for the teaching and education of Christians for discipleship.

Objective

By the end of the course students would have acquired skills needed for planning and execution of teaching, training and education programmes for the Church’s mission and evangelization.

Course outline and Description: The course will discuss topics such as the meaning and scope of Christian Education, patters and processes of Christian teaching and roles in Christian Education.

Bibliography

Kenneth O Gangel and Howard Hendrick, The Christian Educators handbook on

Teaching, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1971.

Richard Osmer, Teaching for Faith, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992.

Robert Clark, Lin Johnson and AllynSloat -Christian Education, Foundations for the future

TSF 303: Youth Ministry                                                                                         3 credit hours

Aim

Subsequent to the general introduction of students to the skill of teaching Christians, this specialized course is intended to help church leaders teach and educate the youth in particular, for the purpose of harnessing their gifts and energies to the advantage of God’s mission.

OBJECTIVE

Students who successfully go through this course will demonstrate the skill and expertise required to effectively manage the enormous energy and undue curiosity associated with ministry to the youth, thereby helping to equip the youth themselves to channel their energies and gifts in the right direction for mission.

Course Outline and Description

Topics to be treated include the definition, classification and characterization of youth, teaching and learning goals in youth education, with emphasis on the theological bases (Trinity, Ecclesiology, worship, missions and character, conduct & citizenship). It will also examine the characteristics of a successful youth programme.

Reading List

Josh McDowell & Bob Hostetler, Handbook on Counseling Youth. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc. 1993.

William L. Coleman, Ten Things Your Youth will Thank you for. Mineapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1992.

Fernando Arzola Jr.-Towards a Prophetic Youth Ministry, Theory and Praxis in Urban context.

Mark Yaconelli- Contemplative Youth Ministry.

Josh McDowell’s & Bob Hostetler –Hand book on Counseling Youth.

TSF 107          Liturgics                                                                    3 credit hours

Aim: The course will introduce the students to the interdisciplinary field known as liturgical studies.

Objective: By the end of the course, students would have explored the meaning and nature of liturgics, have an overview of the history and theology of Christian worship, developed skills in identifying pastoral issues in liturgical praxis and investigated how the liturgy of the Word and the Eucharist developed with reference to classical liturgies, the Reformation adaptations, contemporary liturgical revivals in the churches and the history and meaning of liturgical symbols and vestments.

Course Outline and Description

Week 1: The meaning and nature of Liturgy and Worship

Week2: The Nature and History of Liturgical Symbols

Week 3 & 4: Liturgical Colours and History of Liturgical Vestments

Week 5: Theology of Worship in the Old and New Testaments

Week 6: The Historical Development of Worship in the Old and New Testaments

Week 7: Liturgy of the Word and Sacraments of the Church

Week 8: The Evolution of the Christian Eucharist 

Week 9: Christian Festivals

Week 10-11: Indigenization of Liturgy and Worship in the African Context

Week 12: Liturgy of Funeral

Week 13: Recapitulation

Reading List

Arbuckle, G. A., Earthing the Gospel: An inculturation handbook for pastoral workers

(Geoffrey Chapman, 1990)

Juliette Day and Benjamin Gordon-Taylor (eds.), The Study of Liturgy and Worship (A

                        Pueblo Book Liturgical Press: Collegeville, Minnesota, 2013).

Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Understanding the Mass: Historical, Biblical, Theological, and

                        Liturgical Perspectives (Paulist Press, Ghana edition, 2015).

Klause, T., A Short History of the Western Liturgy (Oxford University Press, 1979)

Klein, P. S., Worship without Words: The sign and symbols of our faith (AmanzaLtd.l, 2000)

Lukken, G., Rituals in Abundance (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2005).

Old, H.O., Worship. Reformed According to Scripture ( Louisville, KY: WJK, 2002).

Saldanha, J., Inculturation (Bombay: St. Paul Press, 1987)

Stringer, M.D., A Sociological History of Christian Worship. Cambridge: Cambridge

                        University Press, 2005).

Vischer, L. (red.). Christian Worship in Reformed Churches Past and Present (Grand Rapids/Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company).

Wainwright, G. & K.B. Westerfield Tucker. (reds.), The Oxford History of Christian

Worship ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Weil, L., A Theology of Worship (Massachusetts: Cowley Publications, 2002)

White, J.F., Introduction to Christian Worship. Third Edition Revised and Expanded

STUDY OF RELIGIONS COURSES (7 COURSES)

World Religions

TSG 115:  Introduction to Islamic Studies                                                 3 credit hours

Aim

The course is designed to expose seminary students to basic beliefs of Islam in order that they may understand Muslims better.

Objective: By the end of the course students will gain sufficient understanding of the Islamic faith to be able to relate well with Moslems and engage in healthy conversations towards their conversion.

Course outline/description

Introduction to Arabia in the 6th Century, life of Prophet, the spread of Islam, Islamic Sacred

Texts, beliefs and practices (Articles of Faith and Pillars of Islam), Islamic groups i.e. Sunnis,

Shites, Ahmadiyya, Ahlus Sunna, Tijaniyyaetc. Aspects of Islam in Ghana, Misconceptions about Islam e.g. jihad, women, Shariahetc.

Reading List

Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, revised ed., 2002.

Awde, Nicholas, trans. and ed. Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qur’an and Hadīths. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair.Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.

Bowker, John. What Muslims Believe. Oxford, UK: Onewworld, 1999.

Cook, Michael. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Daniel, Norman. Islam and the West: The Making of an Image. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 2000 (reprint ed.).

Denny, Frederick Mathewson.An Introduction to Islam. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

Elias, Jamal J. Islam. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Endress, Gerhard. Islam: An Historical Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2^nd ed., 2002.

Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path. New York: Oxford University Press, 3^rd ed., 1998.

Esposito, John L. and John ObertVoll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001

Keller, Nuh Ha Mim, trans. Al-Nawawi’s Manual of Islam. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1996.

Lewis, Bernard, ed. The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

TSG 208: African Traditional Religions                                        3 Credit hours

Aim:This course is intended to introduce students to the study of African religion from the point of view of its practitioners themselves.

Objective:Upon completion of the course students will be familiar with rites, rituals and other forms of worship pertaining to African indigenous religions and how they can engage the Christian Gospel.

Content

It seeks to examine what religious ideas, practices and institutions that are peculiar to Africa mean to her peoples. This course will cover the main features of the African Traditional religions, the concept of God in African belief, the ancestors, divinities, spirits, African conception of the human and moral values.

Reading List

Amankulor, J. N.1972."Ekpe Festivals as Religious Ritual and Dance Drama," Ikenga 1: 2, 37-47.

Awolalu, J. O. and P. A. Dopamu. 1979. West African Traditional Religion, Ibadan.

Blakely, Thomas D., Walter E. A. van Beek, and Dennis L. Thomson, eds. Religion in Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.

Olupona, Jacob K., ed. African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings and Expressions. New York: Crossroad, 2000

Olupona, Jakob K., and Sulayman S. Nyang, eds. Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

TSG 313:        Philosophy of Religion                                             3 Credit hours

Course Aim:             

The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the philosophy of the study of religion and expose her/him to some of the basic issues involved in the Philosophical study of religion.

Course Objectives: When they have completed the course, students should have a clear understanding of several central religious concepts. They should have overcome the simplistic understanding of religion on offer in many popular accounts of the science/religion dichotomy; they should have a sophisticated grasp of the role of evidence and proof in religion, and its limits; and they should have a clear understanding of the status of the ‘religious’ in human life.

Course Outline and Description

1. Introduction to the Course/Assignments

2. The Definition and Scope of the Philosophy of Religion

3. Concepts of God

4. Philosophy of the Enlightenment

6. Arguments for the Existence of God

7. Faith and Reason

9. The Philosophy of Prayer and Miracles

10. Science and Religion

11. Philosophy of Language

12. Some Relevant Philosophical Thinkers

13. Recapitulation

Reading List

Clark, K.J., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Broadview Press, 2008)

Davies, B., An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion 2^nd ed. (Oxford University Press 2004)

____________Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Ontology (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000)

____________(ed.) Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject (London: Cassell, Wellingto House, 1998)

Evans, C. Stephen, Philosophy of Religion (Inter Varsity Press, USA, 1982)

Flew &Maclintyre, New Essays in Philosophical Theology (CMS Press Ltd., 1972)

Hick, John, Philosophy of Religion (Prentice Hall, 1990)

_____________(ed) The Existence of God (Macmillan Press, 1964)

_____________Evil and the God of Love (Macmillan Press, 1966)

Mante, J. O. Y., Essays in Philosophical Theology (SonLife Press, 2011)

MacGregor, G., Introduction to Religious Philosophy (Macmillan, London, 1960)

McDermott, T. (Ed.), Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation

(Christian Classics, 1991)

McPherson, T.  Philosophy of Religion (Van Nostrand, London, 1965)

Moreland, J. P., William L. G., Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

(InterVarsity Press, 2003)

Phillips, D. Z., The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God (SCM Press, 2004)

Swinburne, R., Faith and Reason (Clarendon Press, 2005)

TSG 314:        Phenomenology of Religion                                                 3 Credit hours

Aim:This course aims at exposing the students to the examination of the relevance of phenomenological considerations for the concept of God and the question of what sort of rational sense is implied in the adoption of a religious point of view.

Objective: Those who benefit from the course will have an appreciation of 'phenomenology of religion' as a central proof of an understanding of what is involved practically, cognitively and affectively in a religious way of life.

Content

The discussion distinguishes various perspectives on the subjective character of religious experience, and examines the relation between religious experience and experience of the material world. It also considers the interaction between experience, conceptual framework (including religious doctrine) and practice, and the contribution, if any, of emotional feelings to the epistemic significance of religious experience.

Bibliography

Bunt, Gary R. (2003). Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments, Critical Studies in Islam. London: Pluto Press.

Dawson, Lorne L. & Cowan, Douglas E. (2004). Religion online: Finding faith on the internet. Eds. NY: Routledge.

Hendershot, Heather. (2004). Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hoover, Stewart M. & Clark, Lynn Schofield. (2002). Practicing religion in the age of the media., Eds. NY: Columbia University Press.
Horsfield, Peter. (2003). Electronic Media and the Past-Future of Christianity. Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, 275-276.

Stolow, Jeremy. (2005). Religion and/as Media. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(4), 119.

Taylor, Jim. (2003). Cyber-Buddhism and changing urban space in Thailand. Space and Culture, 6(3), 292.

vanBinsbergen, Wim M. J. (2004). Challenges for the sociology of religion in the African context: prospects for the next 50 years. Social compass, 51(1), 85.

TSG 315         Sociology of Religion                                    3 Credit hours

Aim

This course aims at introducing students to the on-going debate on the role of religion in human societies. It focuses on religious perspectives on social issues and discusses the way religion impacts social and political structures such as leadership and the family, as well as the environment.

Objective

Students will in the end appreciate the synergy between socio-cultural interactions and religion in providing the wellbeing of people.

Content

Topics to be treated in the course include: Nature of the field sociology of religion; Sociological, anthropological and psychological perspectives in religious phenomena; Mutual interaction of religion and other social institutions; Theories of religious behavior; Comte, Tylor, Frazer, Durkhein, Malinowski, Marx and Max Weber; Types of religious activity and modes of expression and organization in historical and comparative situations; religion in simple societies: totemism; ancestral veneration, magic, sorcery and witchcraft, myths and rituals; Religion in complex societies; Religious pluralism; Sectarianism, religious conflicts and accommodation;

Bibliography

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion By Bryan S. Turner Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

A Handbook of the Sociology of Religion By Michele Dillon Cambridge University Press, 2003

Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion By Courtney Bender; Wendy Cadge; Peggy Levitt; David Smilde Oxford University Press, 2013

The Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives By Malcolm Hamilton Routledge, 2001 (2nd edition)

The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers By Eduardo Mendieta Routledge, 2004

Religion, Theology, and the Human Sciences By Richard H. Roberts Cambridge University Press, 2002

More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion By Manuel A. Vásquez Oxford University Press, 2011

Globalizing the Sacred: Religion across the Americas By Manuel A. Vásquez; Marie Friedmann Marquardt Rutgers University Press, 2003

Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives By Nancy T. Ammerman Oxford University Press, 2007

TSG 316:        Religion and Media                                      3 Credit hours

Aim:This course aims at scrutinizing the interface between religion and media in Africa.

Objective: At the end of the course students will be able to scrutinise media use by a few major religions of the world such as Christianity and Islam.

TOPICS

1. Religion and Media as a field of Religious/Theological Enquiry
2. Pentecostalism and Media
3. Islam and Media
4. Print Media: Books from Contemporary religious leaders on spirituality, money and protection.
5. Religious media and worship

Bibliography

Bunt, Gary R. (2003). Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments, Critical Studies in Islam. London: Pluto Press.
Dawson, Lorne L. & Cowan, Douglas E. (2004). Religion online: Finding faith on the internet. Eds. NY: Routledge.
Hendershot, Heather. (2004). Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hoover, Stewart M. & Clark, Lynn Schofield. (2002). Practicing religion in the age of the media., Eds. NY: Columbia University Press.
Horsfield, Peter. (2003). Electronic Media and the Past-Future of Christianity. Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, 275-276.
Stolow, Jeremy. (2005). Religion and/as Media. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(4), 119.
Taylor, Jim. (2003). Cyber-Buddhism and changing urban space in Thailand. Space and Culture, 6(3), 292.
vanBinsbergen, Wim M. J. (2004). Challenges for the sociology of religion in the African context: prospects for the next 50 years. Social compass, 51(1), 85.

TSG 317:        Psychology of Religion                                 3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to help student understand psychological understandings of religious experience.

Objective: By the end of the course students will gain a good understanding from psychological perspective why worshippers behave the way they we find it.

Outline and description: Among the topics to be treated are religion as pathological and as therapeutic, religion and stress, religion and personal values, the religious individual and society and religious experience in the Ghanaian context.

Bibliography

Brown, David, 2004, God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cox, James L., 2006, A Guide to Phenomenology: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates, London: Continuum.

Jones, Lindsay, 2000, The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume II: Hermeneutical Calisthenics: A Morphology of Ritual-Architectural Priorities, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Plantinga, Alvin, 2000, Warranted Christian Belief, New York: Oxford University Press.

Pugmire, David, 1998, Rediscovering Emotion, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Roberts, Robert C., 2003, Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wynn, Mark, 2004, “McDowell, Value Recognition, and Affectively Toned Theistic Experience,” ArsDisputandi, 4(1): 20-39.

2005, Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2009, Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press

PHILOSOPHY COURSES (3 COURSES)

TSG 318: Death and Immortality                                                               3 Credits

Aim:This class provides an in-depth introduction to the philosophical problems surrounding death and immortality. 

Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to discuss, describe and explain multiplicity of arguments concerning death and immortality.

Method of Instruction

This course uses the doctrines and arguments of a number of prominent philosophers concerning death and immortality as a means to investigate these and other questions. Lectures 

Content

The course will discuss the philosophical issues connected with death; Describe the multiplicity of cultural, religious, and philosophical views about death and the soul. Discuss major philosophical arguments for and against the immortality of the soul. Articulate major theories of personal identity, and provide reasoned criticisms of these major theories of personal identity. Explain and evaluate the view of death presented in literary works such as Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Discuss in a philosophical way certain value-theoretic questions about death and immortality, which present us with obligations to live our lives in a certain way, and whether it is permissible to end life prematurely.

Bibliography

Barrett, William. Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1987.

Beauregard, Mario, and Denyse O’Leary. The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. New York: HarperOne, 2007.

Beck, James R. and Bruce Demarest. The Human Person in Theology and Psychology: A Biblical Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2005.

Boyd, Jeffrey H. Reclaiming the Soul: The Search for Meaning in a Self-Centered Culture. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1996.

Brown, Warren S. et al., eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1998.

Cooper, John. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003, 1989.

Corcoran, Kevin. Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.

Cullmann, Oscar. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament. London: Epworth Press, 1958.

Introduction to Philosophy

Aims

The aim of this course is to expose students to the subject matter of philosophy. It is basically an attempt to understand philosophy for the purpose of understanding theology.

Objectives

At the end of the course students will appreciate and be able to evaluate the importance of philosophy for the study of theology; discuss some aspects of the historical development and evolution of philosophy; recognize and apply logic and apply their skills and abilities in their specific ministries.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1                The meaning and importance of Philosophy for ministerial training

Week 2 & 3         Plato on the Ideas and Politics

Week 4 & 5         Aristotle on why and how things Change, and the Uncaused Cause

Week 6 &7          Epistemology 

Week 8 & 9         Metaphysics 

Week 10              Romanticism and its relevance for today

Week 11              The significance of Existentialism for today

Week 12 & 13     Some Relevant philosophical Thinkers

Week 14              Recapitulation

READING LIST:

Allen, D. and Eric O. Springsted, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, 2^nd Edition (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007)

1.     Geisler, N. L. & Paul D. F., Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective (Baker Books, 2005)

2.     Moore, B. N. & Kenneth Bruder, Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 6^th Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2005)

3.     Moser, P. K., Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

4.     Plato, Republic (Penguin Books, 2003)

5.      Rand, Ayn, Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Signet, 1984).

6.     Rosen, S., (ed.), The Philosopher’s Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant (New York: Random House, 2000)

7.     Sinha, J. N., Introduction to Philosophy (Kolkata: New Central Books Ltd., 2006)

8.     Stump, S. E., Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy, 6^th Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1999)

9.     Sullivan, D. J., An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition (Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1992)

10.  Tarnas, R., The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that shaped our world view (London: Pimlico, 2010)

CATEGORY B – BIBLE, LANGUAGES AND APPLIED HERMENEUTICS

TSB 202: Pauline Studies                                                     3 Credit hours

The course covers an in-depth study of Paul’s life and work with particular emphasis on the major theological themes in his writings, his missionary strategy and pastoral traits.  Emphasis will be placed on the influence of Paul in shaping the direction of the Early Church.  The objective is to help students to understand Paul in his environment and appreciate his relevance to contemporary church life and work.

Course Title: Pauline Studies (TSB 202)

Course Aim: To introduce students to the background of Paul and the contingent nature of his writings, as well as to some themes and current developments in Pauline studies.

Course objective: By the end of the course students should be able to address issues in Pauline studies within their right contexts and apply them appropriately to our current situation.

Course outline

1.     Who is Paul?

2.     The Conversion of Paul

3.     Paul as an Apostle

4.     Paul’s apostleship contested

5.     Paul’s missionary strategy

6.     The New Perspective on Paul’s teaching on Justification by faith

7.     Paul’s teaching on Participation in Christ

8.     Paul’s use of the Indicative and the Imperative

9.     The supremacy of Christ as a response to the Colossian heresy

10.  The attributes of love as a corrective to the unacceptable conduct of the Corinthian Christians

11.  Paul and James on Justification by faith

Bibliography

Beker J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.

Bonkamm, Gϋnther. Paul, translated by D.M.G. Stalker. London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.

Bruce, F.F. Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.

Dunn, James D.G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, 1998.

Ekem, J.D.K. New Testament Concepts of Atonement. Accra: Sonlife Press, 2005.

Hawhorne, Gerald F., Martin, Ralph P., Reid, Daniel G. Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Leicester. England: InterVarsity Press, 1993.

Powell, Mark Allan, Introducing the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic,2009.

Roetzel, Calvin. Paul.Mineapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.

-------------------. The Letters of Paul in Context 5^th ed. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.

Sanders E.P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1977.

TSB 308: The Gospels                                                                      3 Credit hours

Aim

To facilitate a critical approach to the Gospels and an in-depth study of fundamental issues involved in their interpretation.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to do effective exegesis of the Gospels, taking into consideration the double and triple traditions of the various pericopae.

Outline

Lectures 1: The Gospel as a special literary genre within the New Testament

Lecture 2: Theories regarding the origin of the Gospels

Lecture 3: Some Critical Approaches to the Study of the Gospels.

Lectures 4: The Synoptic Problem I

Lecture 5: The Synoptic Problem II

Lecture 6: The Synoptic Gospels and John’s Gospel.

Lecture 7, 8 & 9: Introduction to the Theologies of the Synoptic Gospels.

Lecture 10: Introduction to the theology of John’s Gospel.

Lectures 11: Gospel Exegesis I

Lecture 12 & 13: Gospel Exegesis II

Bibliography

Ayegboyin, Isaac Deji. The Synoptics. Introductory Notes on the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke. Revised Edition. Ibadan: Daystar Press, 2004.

Crossan, J. D. Sayings Parallels. A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.

Funk, R. W. New Gospel Parallels. California: Polebridge Press, 1990.

Gutherie, D. New Testament Introduction. Leicester: IVP, 1970.

Kummel, W. G. Introduction to the New Testament. London: SMC, 1966.

Ladd, George Eldon. A Theology of the New Testament. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993.

TSB 407: Wisdom Literature                                                          3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed for studies in this area focus on the ancient Near East world of wisdom, particularly Israel and investigates the wisdom tradition and theology of the Wisdom books in Old Testament (Proverbs Job, Ecclesiastes).

Objective: Upon completion of the course students will be able to describe, discuss and evaluate the relevance of Wisdom Literature as a response to suffering among the people of Israel and contemporary Christian societies.

Outline/descriptions: The sources, authorship and dating of these books are discussed and through group discussions, students identify the lessons that these books teach and the implications of the Wisdom literature for the contemporary Ghanaian/African world.

Bibliography

Bergant, Dianne. Israel's Wisdom Literature. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997.
Brown, William P. Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament. Grand Prapids, Michigan - Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmands, 1996.
Crenshaw, James L. Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction. Atlanta: John Knox, 1981.
Estes, Daniel J. Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic,2005.
Murphy, Roland E. "Introduction to Wisdom Literature" in New Jerome Biblical Commentary, 27:1-37.1990.
________. Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther, The Forms of Old Testament Literature 13 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981).
_______. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature.3rd Edition. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans, 2000.
________. "Wisdom Literature in OT" in Anchor Bible Commentary Vol. 6, pp. 920-931.
Perdue, Leo G. Wisdom and Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature. Nashville: Abingdon Press,1994.
________. Wisdom Literature: A Theological History (Louisville: John Knox, 2007).
von Rad, Gerhard. Wisdom in Israel. (Nashville/New York: Abingdon Press, 1972).

TSB 408: Theology of the New Testament                                     3 Credit hours

Aim

This course is aimed at introducing to students major theological themes of the New Testament.

Objective

This course will enable the student identify the main controlling theme of the New Testament which will help locate the centre of the entire Bible it terms of its theology.

Outline

1.     Theological themes in the New Testament (Herman Ridderbos)

2.     Unity in diversity in the New Testament (Ladd, 1993; pp. 684-719)

3.     Continuity between New Testament Theology and Old Testament Theology (Ladd, 1993; pp. 133-193)

4.     Alternative approaches to theological interpretation of New Testament writings

5.     Theological issues emerging from the canon of the New Testament

6.     A brief survey of the theology of Paul (Ladd, 1993; pp. 397-595)

7.     A brief survey of Johannine theology (Ladd, 1993; pp. 249-334, 657-665, 669-683)

8.     A brief survey of the theologies of the Synoptic gospels (Ladd, 1993; pp.212-245)

9.     A brief survey of the theology of Hebrews (Ladd, 1993; pp. 617-633)

10.  A brief survey of the theology of James (Ladd, 1993; pp. 634-639)

Reading List

Aune, David E. The New Testament: Source of Modern Theological Diversity

Ladd, G. E. A Theology of the New Testament. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans, 1993.

Ridderbos, H. N. When the time had Fully Come: Studies in New Testament Theology.

Revised Edition. Ontario: Paideia Press, 1983.

Ridderbos, H. N. The Coming of the Kingdom. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1962.

Ladd. George Eldon. The Presence of the Future. Revised Edition. Grand

Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002.

CATEGORY C – HISTORY AND MISSIONS

TSC 104: Principles of Mission & Evangelism                              3 Credit hours

Aim

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental principles underlying Christian mission and evangelism. It will study of the biblical and theological principles with a concentration on the missionary practice of the early church.

Objective

Students will acquire contemporary strategies of church planting and church growth including the various methods adopted by the newer churches and the challenges they pose to the older established churches. Other general challenges facing the Church in Africa generally and Ghana in particular will also be dealt with by knowledge from the course.

OUTLINE

Lecture 1: Introduction to Mission, Evangelism, and Discipleship: Basic Definitions

Lecture 2: Biblical Foundations of Evangelism and Mission

Lecture 3: Theological Foundations of Mission and Evangelism

Lecture 4: Caring and Relational Evangelism: Jesus’ Example

Lecture 5: Issues of Evangelism in the Ghanaian Context

Lecture 6: Basic Principles of Discipleship

Lecture 7: Theological Foundations of Discipleship:

Lecture 8: Discipleship Essentials

Required Readings

Students are required to read any or a couple of the following volumes:

Barna, George. Growing True Disciples: New Strategies for Producing Genuine Followers of

Christ. Colorado Springs, CO: Water Brook Press, 2001.

Coleman, Robert E. The Master Plan of Evangelism, 2^nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: New Spire, 1994.

McCann Sr., J. G. Great Pearls from the Biblical Treasure Chest on Evangelism: Bible Truths

that will Transform. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing.

Newell, Marvin J. Commissioned: What Jesus Wants You to Know as YouGo. ChurchSmart

Resources, 2010.

Ogden, Greg, Discipleship Essentials: A guide to Building Your Life in Christ. Downers Grove,

IL: IVP Connect, 1998, 21.

Bibliography

Bosch, David, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. New York, NY:

Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1992.

Bright, Bill. Witnessing Without Fear. San Bernardino, CA: Here is Life, 1987.

Caldwell, John. Top Priority: Building an Evangelistic Church. Joplin, MIS: College Press

Publishing Company.

Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, MI: William Be. Eerdmans Co.,

1970.

Heimbeger, James, ed. Your Church Can Change the World. Mexico: Department of Missions

Education, 2003.

Hood, Pat. The Sending Church: The church Must Leave the Building (Nashville, TEN: B & H

Publishing Group, 2013.

Hybels, Bill& Mark Mittleberg, Becoming a Contagious Christian. Grand Rapids, MI:

Zondervan, 1994.

Malphurs, Aubrey. Strategic Disciple Making. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2009.

McKay, William J. Me, an Evangelist? Every Christian’s Guide to Caring Evangelism. St.

Louis, MO: Stephen Ministries, 1992.

Moreau, Scot A. Evangelical Missionary of World Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books,

2000.

Newbigin, Lesslie,The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989.

Read, David H. C. Go & Make Disciples: The why and How of Evangelism. Nashville, Ten:

Parthenon Press, 1978.

Rheenen, Gailyn Van. Missions: Biblical Foundations & Contemporary Strategies. Grand

Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996.

Smith Steve and Yin Kai, T4T: A Discipleship Revolution. Bangalore, India. WIGTake

Resources, 2011

Stott, John R. W. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity

Press, 1975.

Vicedom, George F. The Mission of God. St. Luis: Concordia, 1965.

TSC 301: History of Christianity in West Africa                                                  3 credits

Aim: The course is designed to enable students acquaint themselves with the history of the planting of Christianity in West Africa and its implication for mission.

Objective: Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to draw lessons from key individuals in the history of the planting of Christianity in West Africa, and their experiences, and the implications for 21^st century mission.

Course outline/description: It introduces students to the formation of the various Missionary Bodies and their contributions to the development and expansion of Christianity in West Africa. A general overview of the church’s achievements and failures is discussed as it relates to mission and evangelism, and church and state relations.

Bibliography

Chidester, David. Religions of South Africa. London: Routledge, 1992.

Hastings, Adrian. A History of African Christianity, 1950–1975. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Hastings, Adrian. The Church in Africa, 1450–1950. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. London: SPCK, 1995.

Sanneh, Lamin. West African Christianity: The Religious Impact. London: Hurst, 1983.

Sundkler, Bengt, and Christopher Steed.A History of the Church in Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

TSC 302: Introduction to Missiology                                                         3 Credit hours

Aim: This is an introductory course designed to equip students with basic knowledge and basic tools for studying the science of missions.

Objective: To make student conversant with the two main components of the theology of mission and the practice of mission and to enable the student understand and be able to explain what Christian mission is about.

Mode of Instruction: Lectures and group presentations

Course Outline: The main areas of study are:

1. Introductory Issues – Definitions, Theories & Concepts

2. Theology of Mission

a) Biblical basis

b) Christological basis

c) Missio Dei

3. Practice of Mission

a) Jesus and Mission

b) The Apostles and Mission

c) Paul and Mission

4. Modern Mission

a) Issues and Themes

b) New trends

c) Challenges and Prospects

Selected Literature

Bosch, David. Transforming Mission. New York: Orbis Books, 1992

Jenkinson, William & Helene O’Sullivan (ed). Mission Trends towards the 3^rd

Millennium.New York: Orbis Books, 1991

Newbigin, Leslie. The Open Secret – An introduction to the Theology of Mission

   Grand Rapids: Eerdman’s, SPCK, 1995

Stott, John. Issues Facing Christians Today. London: Harper Collins, 1990

Thomas, Norman (ed). Classic Texts in Mission & World Christianity New York:

Orbis Books, 1995

Vinay, Samuel & Chris Sugden (ed). AD 200 and Beyond – A Mission Agenda.

   Oxford: Regnum, 1991

Walls, Andrew. The Missionary Movement in Christian History. New York: Orbis Books, 1996

TSC 215 Course Title: Introduction to Ecumenism

Aim: This course is designed to provide a general introduction to the subject of ecumenism as an existential and pragmatic issue in inter-church relations and also as an academic discipline.

Objective: The objective is to provide students with adequate knowledge and tools for dealing with the subject at various levels of the church and in academic studies. The student is expected at the end of the course understand the place of inter-church relations in the mission of the church. This includes the Church’s relations with the state.

Mode of Instruction: Lectures & Student presentations

Course Content:  The course is made up of the following components:

   1. General Introduction to Ecumenics

   2. History, origins and development of ecumenism

   3. Rationale for ecumenism

   4. Biblical and theological basis of ecumenism

   5. Models of union and unity

   6. The Church Union Movement

   7. Ecumenical Organisations Worldwide

   8. Challenges and Prospects in Ecumenism  

Selected Reading

Bilheimer, R. Breakthrough: The Emergence of the Ecumenical Tradition,

Geneva, WCC Publications, 1989.

Butselaar, Jan. Mission - The Soul of Ecumenism, Zoetermeer, Boekencentrum, 2004

Fey, Harold. (ed) The Ecumenical Advance: A History of the Ecumenical Movement,

Geneva, WCC Publications, 1986

Goosen, Gideon. Bringing Churches Together – A Popular Introduction to Ecumenism, Geneva, WCC Publications, 2001

Kinnamon, Michael & Cope, Brian. (ed)., The Ecumenical Movement: An Anthology of Key Texts and Voices, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1997

Kpobi, D.N.A. Mission in Ghana – The Ecumenical Heritage, Accra: Asempa Publishers, 2008

Lossky, N., J.M.Bonino, etc. (eds), Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, Geneva, WCC Publications, 1991.

TSC 403: Ecumenism in Ghana                                                      3 Credit hours

Aim

The course is designed to introduce students to the issue of Christian unity and its associated biblical bases

Objectives

After taking this course, students should be able:

·      To comprehend and appreciate the need for ecumenism among all believers of the Christian faith;

·      To acquire the basic knowledge of ecumenism;

·      To acquaint themselves with the practical application of ecumenical issues among all Christian denominations.

Course Topics

Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture: What is Ecumenism?

Lecture 2: History, Origins, and Development of Ecumenism

Lecture 3: Significance of Ecumenism

Lecture 4: Biblical and Theological Basis of Ecumenism

Lecture 5: Models of Church Union and Unity

Lecture 6: Ecumenism in Ghana and the Failure of Church Union in Ghana

Lecture 7: Organizations for Ecumenism in Ghana

§  Christian Council of Ghana

§  Catholic Secretariat

§  Others.

Lecture 8: Challenges and Prospects/Opportunities in Ecumenism in Ghana

Mode of Assessment

Internal Assessment in the form of quizzes, tests and class presentations-   30%

End of semester examination-                                                                        70%

Bibliography

Bilheimer, R. Breakthrough: Emergence of the Ecumenical Tradition. Geneva: WCC

Publications, 1989.

Butselaar, Jan. Mission – The Soul of Ecumenism. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2004.

Fey Harold, ed. The Ecumenical Advance: A History of the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva:

WCC Publications, 2004.

Goosen, Gideon. Bringing Churches Together – A Popular Introduction to Ecumenism. Geneva:

WCC Publications, 2001.

Hogg, William Richey. Ecumenical Foundations: A History of the International Missionary

Council and its Nineteenth-Century Background. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2002.

Kinnamon, Michael and Brian Cope, ed. The Ecumenical Movement: An Anthology of Key Texts

and Voices. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997.

Kpobi, David N. A. Mission in Ghana – The Ecumenical Heritage. Accra: Asempa Publishers,

2008.

Lossky, N. et al. eds. Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: WCC Publications,

1991.

Category D – Ethics and Philosophy

SD 106: Introduction to Christian Ethics                          3 Credit hours

The aim of this course is to expose the Ministerial student to the subject matter of Christian ethics and to teach him/her how to make Christian moral decisions and how to do Christian ethics as an African Christian. The course will give a general introduction to subject areas such as What ethics is, Major Ethical theories in Moral Philosophy (Deontological, Teleological Ethics and Utilitarianism), Determinants of African Traditional Ethics, What Christian Ethics is, the Ethics of the Early Church and some definite issues in our current African context such as wealth and poverty, gambling, polygamy and stewardship.

TSE 408: Problem of Evil                                                                3 Credit hours

Aim

The aim of this course is to give students an in-depth study of the compatibility of the existence of a loving and good God and the presence of evil in this world.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to give a good and biblical explanation to the challenge of the existence of God and the presence of evil in the world.

Outline

The course will examine critical questions and themes such as the following:

What is God’s involvement in the presence of evil in the world? The Logical and Probabilistic arguments as formulated by Epicurus, David Hume, J.L. Mackie and Anthony Flew, and attempts at solving the problem by philosophers and theologians like Augustine, Aquinas, Liebniz and Swinburne; Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism and the problem of evil as well as African Traditional Religion and the problem of evil in the world.

TSD 411: Church and Society                                                         3 Credit hours

This course is a study of the interaction between the Church and Society.  Attention is given to the Church’s role in the transformation of Society and emphasis is on Society as the milieu for personal growth and theological thinking. The economic, political and cultural life of society is considered to help students gain an insight into the practical implications of the Christian faith in Society.

CATEGORY E – SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

TSE 105: Basic Christian Beliefs                                                    3 Credit hours

TSE 313: Jesus the Christ                                                                3 Credit hours

The course is intended to provide a general biblical and theological background to the study of Christology.  Particular attention is given to the theological interpretation of the virgin birth, message, works, death, resurrection and exaltation of Jesus.  The eschatological event of salvation associated with the advent of Christ, the New Testament confession of Jesus as the Lord, the Messiah, Saviour, Prophet, Son of Man and Son of God will also be considered to enable students gain a general knowledge of Jesus, the Christ and a firm theological foundation for further Christological studies.

TSE 409: Eschatology                                                                      3 Credit hours                      

Aim

In this course a special attempt will be made to expose, explore and explicate traditional African, Jewish, Traditional Christian and contemporary understandings of eschatology.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to understand and appreciate the nature and power of hope in general and the Christian hope in particular and apply such knowledge to bridge the gap between traditional African eschatology and Christian eschatology.

Course outline

·      The Eschatological outlook of the Old Testament

·      Nature of New Testament Eschatology

·      Future Eschatology

·      Major Millennial Views\The Nature and Power of Christian Hope

·      Towards an African Christian Eschatology

Mode of Instruction

Direct lectures and student presentations in class will be employed to teach the course

Mode of Assessment

Internal assessment consisting of quizzes, class tests and written assignments-       30%

End of semester examinations-                      70%

Select readings

Brunner, E.The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, Dogmatic

Vol. III. London: Butterworth Press, 1985.

Erickson, M. J. Contemporary Options in Eschatology. A Study of the Millennium. Grand 

Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1988.

Grudem, W. Systematic Theology. An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Nottingham: IVP, 1994.

Hoekema, A. A. The Bible and the Future. Carlisle: Eerdmans, 1994.

TSE 410: Theologies and Polity of the Various Communions     3 Credit hours

This course is designed to introduce students to the theological thoughts and polity of Wesleyan, Anglican and Reformed Confessions. Attention will be given to the following major themes: Salvation, Justification, and Sanctification. The relevance of these thoughts for the contemporary Church and society will be explored. Further still, attempts will be made to outline the confessional doctrines of God, humankind, life and death.

TSE 414: African Christian Theology                                                                    3 Credits

Aim

This course is designed to examine the historical development of the new theological movements in Africa.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to employ the inter-working between culture and politics and the importance of this in understanding for the African theological reality, as well as the challenges posed by African Women and Evangelicals to the continual mission of the Church in Africa.

Course Outline/Description

·      History of Christian Theology in Africa

·      New Theological Movements in Africa

·      Inculturation Theology

·      Black Theology

·      African Feminist Theology

·      Evangelical African Theology

·      Culture and Politics and the African Theological Reality

Course Requirements:

1.     Punctuality and regular attendance at Lecturers

2.     Active Participation in Class

3.     Completion of Internal Assessment Exercise

Select Bibliography

Asante, E. Culture, Politics and Development-Ethical and Theological Reflections on the

Ghanaian Experience. Accra: Challenge Enterprise, 2007.

Bediako, K. Jesus in Africa-The Christian Gospel in African History and Experience. Akropong:

Regnum Africa, 2000.

Dickson, K. A. Uncompleted Mission-Christianity and Exclusivism. Nairobi: Action Publishers,

2000.

Imasogie, O. Guidelines for Christian Theology in Africa-Theological Perspectives in Africa.

Accra: African Christian Press, 1993.

Martey, E. African Theology: Inculturation and Liberation. New York: Maryknoll, 1995

Njoroge, N. A. Kama Kia Ngo: African Christian Ethic of Resistance and Transformation.

Legon: Legon Theological Studies, 2000.

CATEGORY F – PASTORAL THEOLOGY

TSF 204: Pastoral Care and Counselling                                       3 Credit hours

Aim

The course is intended to assist students acquire a better understanding of the nature and practice of pastoral care and counselling.

Objective

The course will equip students with the requisite skills needed to handle issues related to pastoral care and counselling in specific contexts of life and ministry.

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction to Pastoral Care: Definitions, descriptions, ideas, concepts and limitations

The Imagery of Shepherding

Understanding Humans

Functions of Pastoral Care

Resources for Pastoral Care

Understanding Pastoral Counselling

Characteristics for Effective Counselling

Stages of Counselling

SUGGESTED READING

Atkinson, David J. & Field, David H. (Eds.), New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (London/Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1995)

Augsburger, David W., Pastoral Counselling Across Cultures (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986)

Carr, Wesley, Handbook of Pastoral Studies (London: SPCK, 1997)

Clebsch, W. A and C. R. Jaekle, Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective (New York: Harper, 1967)

Clinebell, Howard, Basic Types in Pastoral Counselling: New Resources for Ministering to the Troubled (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966)

Collins, G. R., Christian Counselling: A Comprehensive Guide (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007)

Lartey, Emmanuel, Pastoral Counselling in Inter-Cultural Perspective: A Study of Some African (Ghanaian) and Anglo-American Views of Human Existence and Counselling (Frankfurt am Main/ Bern/New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1987)

Lartey, Emmanuel, In Living Colour: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and

Counselling (London: Cassell, 1997)

Liddel, Peter, A Handbook of Pastoral Counselling (London and Oxford: Mowbray, 1983)

Lyall, David, Counselling and the Pastoral and Spiritual Context (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995)

Lynch, Gordon (Ed.), Clinical Counselling in Pastoral Settings (London: Routledge, 1999)

TSF 209:  Introduction to Christian Education                            3 Credit hours

Aim

This course is designed to examine the theoretical basis of Christian education, its historical, philosophical and psychological foundations.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be equipped with a clear understanding of human developmental stages and their significance for the teaching-learning situation in church and society.

·      Definitions of Christian education

·      Patterns and process of Christian teaching

·      Roles in Christian education

Bibliography

Kenneth O Gangel and Howard Hendrick, The Christian Educators Handbook on

Teaching, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1971.

Richard Osmer, Teaching for Faith, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992.

Robert Clark, Lin Johnson and AllynSloat -Christian Education, Foundations for the future

TSF 210: Children’s Ministry

Aim

The course is intended to introduce students to the teaching of children in the church and society.

Objective

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to design appropriate teaching and learning programmes for ministry to children in the Church.

Outline/description: Topics to be covered include, Characteristics and control, Elements of a balanced teaching program for children, teaching methods: a threefold approach and Equipment

Bibliography

Bruce P. Powers, The Christian educators handbook, a Revised Edition. Nashville: Broadman& Holman Publishers, 1996.

John H.Westerhoff, Will our Children Have Faith, San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers, 1976.

Maria Harris, Fashion Me A People. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1073.

James Dobson & Gary Bauer, Children at Risk, The Battle for the hearts and Minds of our Kids. Dallas: Word Publishers, 1990.

TSF 303 Youth Ministry                                                                  3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to examine Christian Ministry to the youth.

Objective: By the end of the course students would have learn various methods of teaching the youth in the Church so as to harness their numerous energies for ministry in the 21^st century.

Course content/Description: Topics to be treated include the content and methods of education for the youth, affective and cognitive development, psychology of adolescence, youth and culture, intergenerational conflicts, identity, responsibility and vocational developments, etc. will be explored.  Special attention will be given to the character, organization and planning for Youth Ministry in the Church and among para-church and other Christian organizations such as YWCA, YMCA, S.U. GHAFES, the Brigade, etc.

Bibliography:

Anthony, Michael J., ed. Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Education. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

Anthony, Michael J., and Warren S. Benson.Exploring the History & Philosophy of Christian Education : Principles for the 21st Century. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.

Anthony, Michael J. Introducing Christian Education : Foundations for the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

Baucham, Voddie. Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 2007. 

Beers, Stephen Thomas, ed. The Soul of a Christian University: A Field Guide for Educators. Abilene, Tex: Abilene Christian University Press, 2008. 

Benedict, XVI, Pope, Dermot Ryan, GodfriedDanneels, FranciszekMacharski, and Pierre Eyt. Handing on the Faith in an Age of Disbelief: Lectures Given at the Church of Notre-Dame De Fourvie`re in Lyons, France, and at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006. 

Borg, Marcus J. Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power-- and How They Can Be Restored. New York: HarperCollins, 2011.

Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth, S. Steve Kang, and Gary A. Parrett.A Many Colored Kingdom : Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.

TSF 407: Theology of Ministry                                                       3 Credit hours

Aim: This course is designed to introduce the student to the biblical and theological foundation of ministry. 

Objective: By the end of the course students would have learnt the specific attitudes and their associated character which enhance ministry in the Christian Church.

Course outline/description: Particular attention is given to biblical reflection on ministry and who is called to participate in ministry. Attention is also given to ministry within the historical changing context of the Church, the priesthood of all believers and the place of the ordained and laity in ministry within the context of the multiplicity of gifts in the Church.

Reading Material

Peter Block, Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self (Koehler, 1995).

Alan Richardson, The Biblical Doctrine of Work (London: SCM Press, 1954).

R. Paul Stevens, The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999),published in UK under the title: The Abolition of the Laity

Robert Banks & Kimberly Powell, eds., Faith in Leadership: How Leaders Live Out Their Faith in Their Work and Why It Matters (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000).

Ray S. Anderson, Minding God’s Business (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986).

Grace Preedy Barnes, Servant First: Readings and Reflections on the Practice of Servant Leadership (Indianapolis, Indiana: Precedent Press, 2006).

Karl Barth, ‘Vocation,’ in Church Dogmatics, trans. A.T. Mackay, T.H.L. Parker, H.  Knight, H.A. Kennedy, and J. Marks, vol 3, part 4:595-647 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1961).

Category G – The Study of Religions

TSG 111: World Religions/ Comparative Study of Religions      3 Credit hours

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic tenets of the major non-Christian religions with the view to examining how these religions impact on Inter-Faith relations.  The non-Christian religions to be looked at in this course include Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, African Traditional Religions, Sikhism and Islam.  The main focus of the course will be on Islam as it is the non-Christian religion that impacts most on our situation.

WORLD RELIGIONS/COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIONS (TSG 111)

Aim: The course aims at the following:

·      To engage in the search for the spectrum of religions and religious beliefs;

·      To search for and discuss the composition of the various religions that exist between monotheism and atheism;

·      To search for and consider any relationships or uniqueness among the various world religions and Christianity with regard to inter-faith discussions. 

Objectives: By the end of the course students will be able to use their knowledge in the subject to promote inter-faith dialogue and conversations that will lead to conversion of non-Christian.

Outline

This is a course that is designed to acquaint students with the introduction of basic tenets of the major non-Christian religions with the view to examining how these religions impact on inter-faith relations. 

The course is to introduce students to the main historical, theological, and moral knowledge involved in non-Christian religions such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and ATR, among others. The main focus of the course will be on Islam and ATR as these are the non-Christian religions which impact most on our contemporary (21^st century) situations. The course in sum will involve:

·      The spectrum of religions and religious beliefs from monotheism through to atheism.

·      The specific historical and theological composition of the various selected non-Christian religions.

·      There will also be a focus on inter-faith relationships among Islam, ATR, and Christianity and the impact these major religions have on the contemporary socio-cultural milieu.

·      The course will also attempt to answer the question of how uniqueness or otherwise of Christianity in relationship with the other religions with regard to contemporary pluralistic contexts.

Outline

The main topics will include: World Religions and Basic Definitions; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Secularism; Sikhism; Inter-Faith Dialogue in Pluralism.

Required Readings

Halverson, C. Dean, ed. The Compact Guide to World Religions. Minneapolis, MIN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996.

Horton, Robin. "African Conversion." In Africa, 41:2, 1971: 85-102.

________. "African Conversion." In Africa, 1971 vol 41 no 2: 91-112.

Knitter, F. Paul.No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitude Toward the World Religions. Maryknoll. NY: Orbis Books, 2000.

TSG: 312:  The Pentecostal (and Neo Pentecostal) Movement    3 Credit hours

Aim

This course is designed to introduce students to the phenomenon of Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism as recent expressions of Christian faith both in Ghana and elsewhere. It is to demonstrate to students the ways in which the Spirit of God seems to be at work doing something new in the rise of Pentecostalism as a world religion.

Objective

By the end of the course students will be able to analyse Pentecostalism in its various manifestations by paying particular attention to the historical development of the movement in Ghana. 

Outline

Topics to be treated include:

1.     Pentecostalism: Definition and Biblical Foundations

2.     Doctrine of Subsequence or Initial Evidence

3.     Pentecostalism as a Global Movement

4.     Significant figures in the history of Pentecostalism in Ghana

5.     Worship and the Gifts of the Spirit

6.     Pentecostalism and Growth: The Church of Pentecost

7.     Contemporary Pentecostalism

8.     Charismatic Renewal in Mainline Churches

9.     Trans-Denominational Charismatic Fellowships

10.  Healing, Deliverance and the Prosperity Gospel

SELECT READINGS

Anderson, Allan H. An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Asamoah-Gyadu, Kwabena. ‘Pentecostalism and the Missiological Significance of

Religious Experience: The Case of Ghana’s Church of Pentecost.’ Trinity Journal of Church and Theology.Vol. 12, no. 1&2 (2002), 30-57.

__________. African Charismatics (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005).

__________. Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African

 Context (Oxford: Regnum, 2013).

________. Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa.

Oxford: Regnum International, 2015.

Baëta, Christian G. Prophetism in Ghana: A Study of Some Spiritual Churches (London: SCM, 1962).

Cox, Harvey.Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping

of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God.Peabody, Massachusetts. Listening to the Spirit in the Text.Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.

Gifford, Paul. African Christianity: Its Public Role. London: Hurst and Co., 1998.

________. Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

Hollenweger, Walter J. The Pentecostals.London: SCM, 1972.

________. Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide. Peabody,

            Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1997.

Kalu, Ogbu. African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2008.

Larbi, Kingsley, E. Pentecostalism: The Eddies of Ghanaian Christianity. Accra:

 CPCS, 2001

Omenyo, Cephas N. Pentecost Outside Pentecostalism. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2002.

TSP 402: Theologizing in Ghanaian/African Languages

This course is designed to facilitate a critical theological reflection on social, political and economic issues, which are of great relevance to church and society. Students will be given the opportunity to embark on this special exercise in their mother tongues. Specific case studies from the writings of African theologians such as Jacobus Capitein, Afua Kuma and Philip Laryea will be discussed.