This unit will engage theological, biblical, pastoral, and missiological resources with the range of understandings of creation. Ecumenical, Indigenous, and interfaith perspectives will be considered. Students will be equipped to formulate their own theological, ethical, and practical responses to contemporary questions.
Unit code: DA3039W
Unit status: Approved (New unit)
Points: 18.0
Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3
Unit discipline: Mission and Ministry
Delivery Mode: Face to Face
Proposing College: Whitley College
Show when this unit is running1. | Demonstrate an informed and coherent engagement with theological accounts of creation. |
2. | Develop confidence in engaging with a diverse range of texts, statements, and appropriate literature representing the manner in which the broader Christian tradition, indigenous traditions, and other religious traditions, have developed understandings of creation. |
3. | Describe and evaluate the range of practices deployed by Christian communities in order to respond to and engage with creation. |
4. | Exhibit capacity for independent theological reflection upon a range of issues arising from the unit. |
5. | Describe and justify an integrated level of application of unit learning to the practice of ministry or mission in the contemporary world. |
This is an elective UG unit that assumes and builds on study undertaken in UG foundational units. Prerequisites: 18 points in DA and 18 points in Field B
Central to the Unit’s pedagogy will be praxis-focused theological enquiry that engages with case study, prior student experience, practitioner narrative, and expert testimony. The Unit aims to equip the student with a more coherent and comprehensive theo-logic oriented towards Christian engagement with the creation.
Type | Description | Word count | Weight (%) |
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Annotated Bibliography | Annotated bibliography |
1500 | 30.0 |
Article (for Newspaper, e.g. letter to the editor) | Newspaper article |
500 | 20.0 |
Essay | Essay |
2500 | 50.0 |
Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Maggie Kappelhoff on 5 Oct, 2020
Unit record last updated: 2020-10-05 17:24:33 +1100