8 courses with the subject CMP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CMP 6020Biblical Preaching: Communicating Faith and the
Rhetorical Arts - Explores preaching theologically and in dialog with the traditions of rhetoric and poetics, focusing on the importance of attending to the preacher’s rhetorical situation, to logical, ethical, and emotional forms of persuasion, and to the power of language for taking hearers into a formative experience of the biblical text. Students incorporate insights from these traditions into their own preaching and teaching, making several in-class presentations and preaching at least one formal sermon. Three semester hours.
CMP 6030Biblical Preaching—Old Testament - An advanced course
in homiletics, following the process of choice of text, exegesis, theological thinking, and preparation and delivery of sermons, concentrating on the Old Testament. This course is designed to help each student develop his or her special gifts in preaching. In addition to several brief written reports, each student will preach twice. Three semester hours.
CMP 6040Biblical Preaching—New Testament - An advanced course
in homiletics, following the process of choice of text, exegesis, theological thinking, and preparation and delivery of sermons, concentrating on the New Testament. This course is designed to help each student develop his or her special gifts in preaching. In addition to several brief written reports, each student will preach twice. Three semester hours.
