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REL225E Modern Cults (3 credits) 9623
A course designed to enable the Christian workers to identify and meet the specious arguments of modern cults. The history, methods, growth and policies of modern cults are studied with special emphasis on how to deal with those threatened or ensnared by them.
LEARNING RESULTS
The objective of this course is to equip and challenge the student with the knowledge of how to intelligently encounter members of various religious cults. The Christian worker should be able to identify errors and give an answer to every man.
REQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS
Martin, Walter, The Kingdom of the Cults, 2nd ed., Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003.
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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING
The integration of faith and learning occurs in this course as we study scriptural responses to modern day cults. Thus, the course becomes highly practical, yet based on scripture.
LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting the following items:
Assignment #1 Introduction to Cults
Assignment #2 Jehovah’s Witnesses
Assignment #3 Unitarian Universalism
Assignment #4 Christian Science
Assignment #5 Mormonism – The Latter-Day Saints
Assignment #6 The Unification Church
Assignment #7 The Baha’i Faith
Assignment #8 Seventh-Day Adventism
Assignment #9 L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology
Final Exam
There are 9 lessons and 1 examination for this course.
LEARNING EVALUATION
Evaluation is on a point system:
Assignments 1-9 9 points (counts for 80% of your grade)
Final Exam 19 points (counts for 20% of your final grade)
Total points 100