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R10 Ordination Weekend

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Ordination Weekend

What is this Weekend all about?
Useful resources for Ordination
The Student Spot
R10 Programme

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

Welcome to the R10 Ordination Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to the sessions covered in R10 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute.

What is this Weekend all about?

This weekend surveys the history, theology and practice of ordination and offers students the opportunity to engage in current debates and ways of understanding ministry, both in the Church as a whole and from their own traditions and perspectives.

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Useful resources for R10

Books

The following are core books for this weekend:

Bowden, A. & West, A. Dynamic Local Ministry Continuum 2000
Holeton, D. Ed. Anglican Orders and Ordinations Grove 1997
Greenwood, R. Transforming Priesthood SPCK 1994
Greenwood, R. Practising Community SPCK 1996
Methodist Conference What is a Presbyter? Methodist Publishing House
Morisy, A. Beyond the Good Samaritan: Community, Ministry and Mission Mowbray 1997

For more detailed bibliographies see our Ordination Booklists.
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R10 Ordination Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful for discovering more about Ordinations and contemplative prayer. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class work on line. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful.

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

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What is Ordination. What is a Presbyter

WCC Baptism Eucharist and Ministry: This is the ecumenically agreed statement on ordination and ministry from the World Council of Churches. It is reauired reading

Ordination in the Church of England

The Church of England Ordinal: The Ordination Service for the Church of England

Ordination in the Methodist Church

What is a Presbyter: The 2002 Conference Paper entitled What is an Presbyter and exploring a distinctively Methodist understanding of ordination.
What is a Deacon: The 2004 Conference Paper entitled What is an Deacon and exploring the Diaconal Order and the nature of a diaconal ordination.
The Diaconal Order: The Diaconal Order website explaining What a Deacon is, in the Methodist Church.

See the general religion links as a starting point for your own searching

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The Student Spot

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A sample R10 Weekend Programme

Please note that programmes are constantly being revised and the actual content of your weekend may look rather different.

Preparation

There will be a Workbook with texts from ordinals and confessional/ecumenical statements on ordained ministry.

Programme

Friday
6:30 Arrive
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Session 1 What is Ordination
9:15 Night Prayer

Saturday
8:00 Worship
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 2 Ordination - in the Bible and Tradition
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Session 3 Contemporary Issues around Ordination
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Session 4 Voices in Testimony - Forum and Plenary
3:45 Tea available
4:15 Session 5 ordination in our Denominations
5:45 Break
4:15 Worship
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Social Event organised by Second Years

Sunday
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 WEMTC Notices
9:30 Epistles
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Valedictory Eucharist
1:00 Lunch

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Contribution to this Page

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The Full Module Description for R10 Ordination

Code and title

R10 Ordination Weekend

Brief description

Level and Credits

Contributes to F101 Ministerial Formation or V101 Vocational Discernment

Status

Core for Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students

Type

Standard

Prerequisites

Workbook with texts from ordinals and confessional/ecumenical statements on ordained ministry.

Restrictions

Open to Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students only

Content summary

This weekend will cover:

Theology of ordination in the New Testament
Historical and confessional diversity in the understanding of ordination
Examination of the role of the ordained minister
Developments in collaborative approaches to ministerial leadership
Engagement with practising ministers in an exploration of a variety of traditions and ways of understanding ordination and ministry
Practical outcomes for students of ordination

Learning outcomes

By the end of this weekend students should:

a) Knowledge and Understanding

Be aware of New Testament, historical and confessional evidence for ordination
Extended their understanding of the variety of perspectives on ordination including denominational differences
Appreciate the relationship between theological understanding and practical outcomes
Give an account of contemporary concerns and issues such as gender and the Act of Synod, sexuality, authority and new forms and expressions of ministry

b) Skills

Be able to make links between biblical and theological traditions and their own understanding of ordination
Be able cogently to support their own theological position and appreciate alternative ways of understanding ordination
Be able to relate to others in collaborative approaches to ministry

Teaching and learning

10 hours
7 hours class contact
3 hours personal study (prior reading, self reflection, discussion in Formation Groups and with Tutor)

Assessment

A self-reflection exercise in prescribed format

Indicative resources

Bowden, A. & West, A. Dynamic Local Ministry Continuum 2000
Holeton, D. Ed. Anglican Orders and Ordinations Grove 1997
Greenwood, R. Transforming Priesthood SPCK 1994
Greenwood, R. Practising Community SPCK 1996
Methodist Conference What is a Presbyter? Methodist Publishing House
Morisy, A. Beyond the Good Samaritan: Community, Ministry and Mission Mowbray 1997

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