Wesley Theological Seminary courses for local church adult education

About Wesley Ministry Network

Wesley Ministry Network is an outreach of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to produce substantive adult education courses that make the best of Christian scholarship accessible to people in local churches. Courses are designed to be facilitated by local church members and include DVD-based lessons by scholars from around the world. Wesley Ministry Network courses have been used by tens of thousands of people from across the United States and in approximately fifteen other countries on five continents. Bishop Richard B. Wilke, founder of the Disciple Bible study, calls Wesley Ministry Network, “the perfect follow-up to Disciple Bible Study. The content is superb and the combination of print, video and Internet communication is dynamic.”

Courses

Religion and Science: Pathways to Truth
Dr. Francis S. Collins, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, hosts this ground-breaking series in which a dozen leading scientists, theologians, and philosophers consider how religion and science might coexist and even complement one another in the 21st century.

Devotion to Jesus: The Divinity of Christ in Earliest Christianity
This course takes on revisionist accounts of how and when the first Christians came to believe in Jesus as the divine son of God. Dr. Larry Hurtado, Edinburgh University professor and one of the world’s leading authorities on early Christianity, challenges misrepresentations of Christian origins, such as the notion that belief in Jesus’ divinity arose decades after his death, or the idea that Christianity is an invention of the apostle Paul.

Simply Christian
Based on the best-selling book by Bishop N. T. Wright, this course addresses questions of the reasonableness of the Christian faith in the modern world. Wright begins by exploring what seem to be universal longings – for justice and relationship, spirituality and beauty – and from these goes on to simply, yet powerfully explain the core of Christian faith.

Serious Answers to Hard Questions
Ten leading Christian and Jewish theologians each address a single tough issue, such as the existence of evil or the relationship between religion and science. These ten issues are obstacles to faith for many both in and outside of the church. This course encourages the energetic discussion and sustained reflection that is key to a life of informed discipleship.

Women Speak of God
This course introduces us to some less familiar voices in church history: voices which attest to God’s living presence through time as these six women struggled with issues of identity, character, and calling, which still resound with us today.

A Life Worthy of the Gospel
This is a challenging and inspiring introduction to Christian ethics, which explores the formation of Christian character through the writings of the Bible, Augustine, Martin Luther, and John Wesley.

Journey Through the Psalms
Take an in-depth look at the book of Psalms – the prayer-book of the synagogue and the church. Through study of the word and insights gained through the arts, we are invited to approach God with the same honesty and intensity as the ancient Psalmists.

In God’s Time
A faithful and sane alternative to sensationalist perspectives, this course opens up the entire Bible and reveals its teaching of God’s ultimate victory, a hope that is to be taken seriously and yet sensibly.


For more information on these courses, including sample videos, and to order course materials, visit http://www.wesleyministrynetwork.com/.