Bearing Witness: Second Year (DA2002Z)

Content

In the second-year, students are invited to engage with the history and contemporary contexts of the Church’s missional identity. For many Christian communities, flourishing has meant and still means an active engagement in the formation of its members through an evangelising ethos of mission and service that extends beyond the walls of the Church. But the history of ‘mission’ is contentious and entangled with the Church’s complex interactions with its national and denominational identities. To understand and rethink these complex questions, this unit will draw students into an exploration of what it is for the Church to be missional in the twenty-first century.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

This unit is for the second year of study.

Pedagogy

This unit fosters a collaborative peer learning environment in which students are encouraged to engage in constructivist and experiential approaches to learning. It will facilitate the development of reflective practice to support the integration of learning.

Indicative Bibliography

• Ghiloni, Aaron J. (ed) World Religions and Their Missions. New York: Peter Lang. 2014.

• Roxburgh, Alan J., and M. Scott Boren. Introducing the Missional Church (Allelon Missional Series): What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One. Baker Books, 2009.

• Thomspon, Judith. Theological reflection. (2nd ed.) SCM Press, 2019.

• Thomspon, Steve. The visual preacher: Proclaiming an embodied Word. 1517 Media, 2022.

• Ward, Pete. Introducing practical theology: Mission, ministry, and the life of the church. Baker Academic, 2017.

Assessment