Content

This unit is offered to students as an opportunity to integrate their previous learning through cross-disciplinary engagement. Students are given the opportunity to engage in theological reflection through the construction of an integrative essay on the twin themes of holiness and social justice in association with a supervising member of staff and in dialogue with fellow students and other members of the teaching staff. Four compulsory interdisciplinary seminars will be run across the semester at which students present their research findings and are helped to shape their final integrative paper.

Unit code: XX9132B

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Capstone

Unit discipline: Capstone Other X

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

Proposing College: Catherine Booth College

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Learning outcomes

1.

Identify the connections between personal religious faith and action for justice in the world

2.

Integrate their previous learning across at least two fields

3.

Compare and synthesise complex theological ideas

4.

Plan and execute a substantial theological statement that draws upon Scripture, reason, tradition and experience as mutually supporting sources

5.

Interact with the ideas and thoughts of others in a collaborative manner

Unit sequence

May only be taken in the final two semesters of study.

Pedagogy

Seminars, interdisciplinary conversations, and research supervision.

Indicative Bibliography

  • Anderson, Jonathan, and Millicent Poole. Assignment and Thesis Writing. 4th edition. Brisbane: Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd., 2001.
  • Barton, Stephen C. Holiness Past and Present. London: T&T Clark, 2003.
  • Bevans, Stephen. Models of Contextual Theology. New York: Orbis Books, 2010.
  • Borg, Marcus J. Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus. Harrisburg: Trinity, 1998.
  • Brower, Kent E. Living as God's Holy People: Holiness and Community in Paul. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009.
  • Brower, Kent E., and Andy Johnson, eds. Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
  • Brown, Scott G. A Guide to Writing Academic Essays in Religious Studies. London: Continuum, 2008.
  • Core, Deborah. The Seminary Student Writes. St Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2000.
  • Kapic, Kelly M., ed. Sanctification: Explorations in Theology and Practice. Leicester and Downers Grove: IVP, 2014.
  • Marquardt, Manfred. John Wesley’s Social Ethics: Praxis and Principles. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.
  • Peterson, David. Possessed by God: A New Testament Theology of Sanctification and Holiness. Leicester: Intervarsity press, 2001.
  • Runyon, Theodore. Sanctification and Liberation: Liberation Theologies in Light of the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon, 1984.
  • Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 8th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • Vyhmeister, Nancy Jean. Your Guide to Writing Quality Research Papers for Students of Religion. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014.

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Essay

6,000 word integrative essay shaped by attendance at seminars and showing evidence of interaction with seminar participants

6000 100.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 19 Oct, 2017

Unit record last updated: 2022-10-05 14:29:50 +1100