Details for Spiritual Formation 1: Personal Formation

Awards offering Spiritual Formation 1: Personal Formation

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Bachelor of Ministry
• Bachelor of Theology

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Describe and demonstrate various expressions of Christian spirituality, both traditional and contemporary;
2. Discuss various spiritual disciplines and how these have been, and can be, applicable to the student’s own spiritual formation and practice;
3. Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the concept of self-awareness in the area of emotional health and spiritual wellbeing;
4. Describe features of healthy and unhealthy spirituality that can be identified in self and others; and
5. Demonstrate an understanding of spiritual and emotional intelligence as it pertains of spiritual maturity.

Subject Content

• Introduction to Spiritual Formation
• Autobiography – our life story
• Development of personal spiritual formation (Spiritual disciplines)
• Emotional Health and Spirituality
• Self-awareness (of self and others)
• The problem of emotionally unhealthy spirituality
• Pathways to emotionally healthy spirituality

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (on site)
• E-learning (online)
• Intensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis College.

Assessment Methods

• Forums (20%)
• Major Essay (50%)
• Personal Reflection (30%)

Prescribed Text

• Scazzero, P. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017.

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