Alliance History & Thought · Fall 2026
Every student presents twice: once from a course source in Round 1, and once from an ordination reading list book in Round 2. You also facilitate the discussion your own presentation opens. Find your name below for your two dates.
Howe, Forgotten Voices
Pearcey, Love Thy Body
This slot is scoped to the book's embodiedness argument – the body-and-person question set against divine healing – not to its applied sexuality chapters. Your facilitated question has to sit inside that scope, or it is returned for rewrite before class.
The Section 15 Statement of Faith sequence – 1906, 1928, 1965, 2000, and the current Canadian Statement of Faith (R 15.2–15.6 plus the Manual)
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
Joint slot: Yuliia and Slava present this book together as one extended presentation.
King, Indigenous Church Policy of the C&MA (R 7.2)
N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
Joint slot: Yuliia and Slava present this book together as one extended presentation.
Story of Providence – A.B. Simpson: The Founding (R 4.1)
Van De Walle, The Heart of the Gospel – Pillar 2: Sanctifier
Whole-book rule: you present one pillar, and you are responsible for all of The Heart of the Gospel.
Fessenden, Present Truths
Van De Walle, Rethinking Holiness
Borderud, Creeds and the Statement of Faith (R 15.1)
Willard, Hearing God
Simpson, Aggressive Christianity (R 7.1)
Richards & O'Brien, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Seminary requirement: you triangulate. An undergraduate connects their source to the week’s Alliance material. You do that and then put your source in conversation with the week’s designated seminary reading, naming where the two agree and where they do not. Your facilitated question has to arise from the tension between the two sources – a question either source could have produced on its own does not meet the requirement. Your one-page handout cites both and names the disagreement.
Constitution of the Christian Alliance, 1887 (R 4.2)
Van De Walle, The Heart of the Gospel – Pillar 4: Coming King
Whole-book rule: you present one pillar, and you are responsible for all of The Heart of the Gospel.
Reynolds, Rebirth
Brown, On Mission: Why We Go
Story of the C&MA – the founding narrative (R 5.1)
Van De Walle, The Heart of the Gospel – Pillar 1: Saviour
Whole-book rule: you present one pillar, and you are responsible for all of The Heart of the Gospel.
General Constitution and Principles (R 6.1)
Reimer, River Dwellers
Andrews, Simpson's Understanding of the Role of Women in Ministry (R 5.3)
C.J.H. Wright, The Mission of God's People
Constitution of the Evangelical Missionary Alliance, 1887 (R 4.3)
Van De Walle, The Heart of the Gospel – Pillar 3: Healer
Whole-book rule: you present one pillar, and you are responsible for all of The Heart of the Gospel.
Both rounds run to the same four-part format, with a ten-minute ceiling and no slides. Read what a presentation has to contain.