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Enlightenment HIS-3103 Course Syllabus
Course Syllabus – Fall 2013
Enlightenment
The College at Southwestern
HIS 3103-A Wednesday/Friday 8:30-9:45 a.m. Room 2-25
HIS 3103-B Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-2:15 p.m. Room S119
Instructor: Kevin Stilley
Office Hours: By Appointment
Website: http://kevinstilley.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kevinstilley
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kevin.stilley
Catalog Description
A study of the history and philosophy of western civilization from the Seventeenth Century through the Eighteenth Century.
Course Objectives
- To gain knowledge of the main events, ideas and persons that shaped western civilization during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- To develop the skill of applying history to contemporary ideas and issues
- Appreciation of God’s providence in the overall pattern of history.
Required Texts
- The Roots of American Order, by Russell Kirk
- The Portable Enlightenment Reader, edited by Isaac Kramnick
- Rise of Modern Philosophy, Volume 3, by Anthony Kenny
- Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, by Neil Postman
(Please bring a Bible to class with you.)
Blackboard
Blackboard and SWBTS student email will be used for class communications. Students should check both Blackboard and student email daily for possible communications from the instructor.
Assignments
Grades will be determined based upon completion of two exams, a book review, a student presentation and class participation.
- Examination #1 (25%) – This exam will be conducted via Blackboard so please be sure to have a good internet connection available on the day of the exam. Mac users, I encourage you to NOT use the Safari web browser when taking this test or navigating the Blackboard interface.
- Final Exam: (25%) – The date and time for the final exam may not coincide with normal class days and times. You must make yourself available to take the final exam at the scheduled time during finals week. No alternative times or venues for the exam will be offered.
- Academic Book Review (25%): A scholarly book review is to be written on Neil Postman’s Building a Bridge to the 18th Century. Guidelines for writing the review have been posted to Blackboard. An electronic copy of the review must be submitted by Blackboard prior to 11:59 p.m. November 11, and a paper copy shall be turned in to the instructor during the November 12 class period. Late submissions will be penalized ½ letter grade for each day late.
- Student Presentation (15%): Each student will make a ten-minute presentation to the class about an influential person or event from the time period being covered. Creativity is greatly appreciated.
- Participation (10%): All students are expected to attend class, be punctual, and participate appropriately in classroom discussion. To engage in classroom discussion of the assigned reading it is imperative that all reading assignments be conducted in a timely fashion.
- Attendance will be recorded at the beginning of all class sessions. Absences or tardiness will adversely affect your grade. Absences in excess of six will result in an automatic failure of the class.
- Students are free to record the class.
- Guests are welcome, but please notify the instructor in advance.
- Laptops, iPhones, and similar devices may NOT be used during class as their usefulness is far outweighed by their ability to create a distraction and contribute to the cultural habit of inattentiveness.
- If you become drowsy you may stand at the back or the side of the room until you can resume your seat without falling asleep.
Grades
Grades will be determined by the following scale: 100-98 (A+); 97-93 = A; 92-90 (A-); 89-88(B+); 87-83 (B); 82-80 (B-); 79-78 (C+); 77-73 (C); 72-70 (C-); 69-68 (D+); 67-63 (D); 62-60 (D-); Below 60 = F.
SWBTS Convocation
Syllabus – Early Western Civilization HIS 1103-B Fall 2013
Students, here is a link to the syllabus for Early Western Civilization HIS 1103-B. See you in a few weeks.
Student Ministry – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
The following books and articles are some of those appearing on the Comprehensive Reading List for PhD candidates in the Student Ministry major at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
All EM Students
Black, Wesley. An Introduction to Youth Ministry. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1991.
Fields, Doug. Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998.
Senter, Mark H., III. ed. Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001.
Smith, Christian with Melinda Lundquist Denton. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Strommen, Merton P., Karen E. Jones, and Dave Rahn. Youth Ministry That Transforms. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001.
Student Ministry Majors
Black, Wesley. An Introduction to Youth Ministry. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1991.
Borgman, Dean. Hear My Story: Understanding the Cries of Troubled Youth. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003.
Boshers, Bo. Student Ministry for the 21st Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997.
Burns, Jim, and Mike DeVries. Partnering with Parents in Youth Ministry. Gospel Light, 2003.
________. The Youth Builder: Today’s Resource for Relational Youth Ministry. Gospel Light, 2001.
Campbell, Ross. How to Really Love Your Teenager. Colorado Springs, CO: Cook, 1993.
Clark, Chap. Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004.
________. The Youth Worker’s Handbook to Family Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997.
DeVries, Mark. Family-Based Youth Ministry. 2d ed. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2004.
Dunn, Richard R. Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2001.
Erikson, Erik. Identity: Youth and Crisis. New York: Norton Publishing, 1968.
Fields, Doug. Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998.
________. Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids. MI: Zondervan, 2002.
Hall, G. Stanley. Adolescence (Vol. 1&2). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1904.
Higgs, Mike. Youth Ministry On Your Knees: Mentoring and Mobilizing Young People to Pray. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2004.
Laurent, Robert. Keeping Your Teen In Touch With God. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, 1988
Lewis, Robert. Raising a Modern Day Knight. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale,1997.
McDowell, Josh, and Bob Hostetler. Josh McDowell’s Handbook on Counseling Youth. Dallas, TX: Word, 1996.
McDowell, Josh. The New Tolerance. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1998.
Mueller, Walt. Understanding Today’s Youth Culture. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1999.
Parrott III, Les. Helping the Struggling Adolescent. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.
Reid, Alvin. Raising the Bar: Ministry to Youth in the New Millennium. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2004.
Robbins, Duffy. Youth Ministry Nuts & Bolts: Mastering the Ministry Behind the Scenes. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990.
Schultze, Quentin J. et al. Dancing in the Dark. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990.
Seel, David John. Parenting without Perfection. Navpress Publishing, 2000.
Senter, Mark H., III. ed. Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001.
Smith, Christian with Melinda Lundquist Denton. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Smith, Tim. 8 Habits of an Effective Youth Worker. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1995.
Stanley, Andy. The Seven Checkpoints Student Journal. West Monroe: LA: Howard Publishing, 2001.
Strommen, Merton P., Karen E. Jones, and Dave Rahn. Youth Ministry That Transforms. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001.
The Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry Counseling. Loveland, CO: Group Publishing, 2002.
White, Joe and Jim Weidmann. Parent’s Guide to the Spiritual Mentoring of Teens. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2001.
Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes. New York, NY: Three River’s Press, 2002.
Foundations of Education – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
The following books are some of those appearing on a Comprehensive Reading List for PhD candidates in Foundations of Education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This list was compiled several years ago so it may have been updated since then with other titles not found here.
Anthony, Michael J. and Benson, Warren S. Exploring the History and Philosophy of Christian Education: Principles for the 21st Century. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.
Barclay, William. Educational Ideals in the Ancient World. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1959.
Bruce, Alexander Balmain. The Training of the Twelve. New Canaan, Ct: Keats Publishing, Inc. 1979.
Clouse, Bonnidell. Teaching for Moral Growth: A Guide for the Christian Community Teachers, Parents, and Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1993.
Eldridge, Daryl. The Teaching Ministry of the Church. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1995.
Erikson, Erik H. Identity and the Life Cycle. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1980.
Estep, James Riley, Jr., ed. C. E.: The Heritage of Christian Education. Joplin, MO: College Press, 2003.
Ford, Leroy. A Curriculum Design Manual for Theological Education: A Learning Outcomes Focus. Nashville: Broadman Press. 1991.
Gaebelein, Frank E. The Pattern of God’s Truth: The Integration of Faith and Learning. Winona Lake: BMH Books, 1968.
Gorman, Julie A. Community that is Christian: A Handbook on Small Groups. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1993.
Knight, George B. Philosophy and Education: An Introduction in Christian Perspective. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1989.
LeBar, Lois E. Education That is Christian. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1958.
LeFever, Marlene D. Learning Styles: Reaching Everyone God Gave You to Teach. Elgin, Ill: David C. Cook Publishing Co. 2002
Lingenfelter, Judith, and Sherwood Lingenfelter. Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003
Pazmiño, Robert W. Foundational issues in Christian Education. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997.
Price, John M. Jesus the Teacher. Nashville: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1946.
Richards, Lawrence O., & Bredfeldt, Gary. Creative Bible Teaching (Rev. ed.). Chicago: Moody, 1998.
Richards, Lawrence O. A Theology of Christian Education. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975.
Roehlkepartain, Eugene C. The Teaching Church: Moving Christian Education to Center Stage. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.
Wilhoit, James, & Dettoni, John. Nurture that is Christian: Developmental Perspective on Christian Education. Wheaton, Illinois: Bridgepoint Books, 1995.
Wyckoff, D. Campbell. Theory and Design of the Christian Education Curriculum. Westminster Press. 1961.
Yount, William. Called to Teach: An Introduction to the Ministry of Teaching.
Broadman and Holman, 1999.Yount, William. Created to Learn: A Christian Teacher’s Introduction to Educational Psychology. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1996.
Zuck, Roy B. Teaching as Paul Taught. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.
Spring Textbooks
Below are the textbooks I will be using in my classes this semester:
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY – HIS 3203
- Churches, Revolutions and Empires: 1789-1914
- Christianity and Western Thought, Volume 2: Faith and Reason in the 19th Century
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
WESTERN CIV II – HIS 1213
- The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad
- Philosophy in the Modern World: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4
- The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History: Europe Since 1815
- A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics)
EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION – HIS 1103
- The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History
- First and Second Maccabees (New Collegeville Bible Commentary: Old Testament Series)
EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION SEMINAR – IDE 1103
- Greek Tragedies, Volume 1
- A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning (Isi Guides to the Major Disciplines)
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
(Students, this edition is not available at most retailers; you will probably need to purchase it at the campus bookstore to get the best price.)
- The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics)
- The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics)
- Poetics (Penguin Classics)
- Plato: Republic
- Timaeus and Critias (Penguin Classics)
Ronald Nash – select quotes
I have never met a genuine Christian who disparaged the importance of conversion, faith, commitment, sacrifice, Bible study, holy living, and the like. But I know lots of Christians who have not yet seen the importance of sound doctrine. It is important THAT we believe (spiritual concern); but it is also important WHAT we believe (theological concern).
~ in Closing of the American Heart, page 99
Relativism, then is a position for which the world still awaits an argument. It is also self-defeating in the sense that every self-styled relativist is forced, sooner or later, to appeal to absolutes of his own making. And it is a theory that robs life of elements needed for any life to have meaning.
~ in The Closing of the American Heart, page 67
The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have different ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the living God in different ways…. All humans are incurably religious; we simply manifest different religious allegiances.
~ in The Closing of the American Heart, page 38
Life and Thought Seminars at The College at Southwestern
If you are in the process of deciding what college you will attend, you must give serious consideration to The College at Southwestern. I am probably The College’s biggest fan.
Check out some of the texts being used in the Life and Thought seminars.
Early Western Civilization
Aristotle – Rhetoric
Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics
Plato – Republic
Plato – Timaeus and Critias
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Sophocles – Antigone
Church and Empires Seminar
Athanasius – On the Incarnation
Augustine – Confessions
Augustine – The City of God
Cicero – On Duties
World Religions Seminar
Buddhism – The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
Confucianism – The Analects of Confucius
Hinduism – The Bhagavad Gita
Islam – The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an
Judaism – The Talmud
Renaissance and Reformation Seminar
Aquinas – Summa Theologiae
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Luther/Erasmus
Hubmaier – On the Christian Baptism of Believers
Habmaier – Catechism
Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
C.S. Lewis – The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Enlightenment and Romantic Seminar
John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress
Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method
John Locke – Two Treatises on Gov’t
Blaise Pascal – Pensees
Jean Rousseau – Emile
John Wesley – Selected Works
Jonathan Edwards – Religious Affections
The 19th Century Seminar
Charles Darwin – On The Origin of Species
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Charles Finney – Lectures on Revivals of Religion
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
Charles Spurgeon – Lectures to My Students
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
The Early 20th Century Seminar
G. K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
John Dewey – Experience and Education
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land
Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
William James – Pragmatism
Bertrand Russell – Why I am Not a Christian
Churchill’s – Second World War
The Late 20th Century Seminar
Karl Barth – The Word of God and the Word of Man
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
H. Richard Niebuhr – Christ and Culture
Vatican II Texts
J. F. Lyotard – Selected Works
Peter Kreeft – Between Heaven and Hell
Graduate Research Seminar
Below are some of the textbooks used in Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Graduate Research Seminar.
The course is designed to:
1. Develop the basic skills of research.
2. Gain a knowledge of library resources for the development of research bibliographies.
3. Understand the argument structure of a research paper, dissertation, or thesis.
4. Develop a familiarity with the stylistic expectations for seminar papers.
