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| Unit name |
Mission in a Global Context: Concepts and Practices (Trinity & Baptist College) |
| Unit code |
THRSM0057 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
|
| Unit director |
Reverend Dr. Corrie |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department |
Department of Religion and Theology |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit:
- develops the theology of mission and how it is understood from different perspectives
- critically reviews the history and models of the missionary movement and its contexts in the 19th and and 20th centuries, with a view to evaluating today's mission practice.
- explores how Ecumenical, Roman Catholic and Evangelical traditions have expressed the meaning of mission, and critically engages with original documents from these traditions.
- reviews the developments which have led to calls for new ways of thinking about mission and new theological understanding of the Church’s mission in a postmodern context.
This unit aims to:
- equip students to understand, and discuss with confidence, the current movements of Christian Mission, nationally and internationally, in a rapidly changing world;
- enable students to appreciate the significance of historical and current developments in Roman Catholic and Protestant concepts of mission;
- explore what can be learnt for contemporary mission from the history of mission through a survey of the developments in Christian thinking and practice in the 19th and 20th centuries with particular reference to political context, emergent nationalism and European decolonization;
- integrate students’ theological, historical and missiological reasoning through a practical
awareness of the changing patterns of intercontinental and intercultural mission and service.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the unit students should:
- have acquired a model of mission which is biblically informed, intellectually coherent, historically aware, culturally sensitive, and practically based;
- be able to think theologically about mission and think missiologically about theology;
- be able to apply this integrated thinking to an informed engagement with the changes and challenges of contemporary mission.
Teaching Information
The unit will be taught through interactive seminars, including a variety of media such as DVD, the Internet, case studies. Students are expected to have completed prior reading and to come ready to discuss it.
Assessment Information
Formative assessment will be through engagement with prior reading and exercises of private study which are then discussed in class and for which tutor feedback is given.
Summative assessment will be through an essay of 6,000 words.
Reading and References
- Bevans, S.B. and Schroeder, R.P., Constants in Context (New York, Orbis, 2004)
- Hanciles, J.J., Beyond Christendom (New York, Orbis, 2008)
- Jenkins, P., The New Faces of Christianity (OUP, 2006)
- Porter, A, Religion versus Empire? (Manchester, MUP, 2004)
- Walls, A.F., The Missionary Movement in Christian History (New York, Orbis, 1996)
- Wright, C. H. J., The Mission of God (IVP Academic, 2006)
