Content

This unit gives opportunity to reflect missiologically on a supervised group field trip. It explores the issues of cross-cultural agency while offering students an understanding of the relationship between gospel and culture. It further allows the student to personally reflect on their own cultural bias and assumptions.

Unit code: DM8007S

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Foundational

Unit discipline: Missiology

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

Proposing College: Stirling College

Show when this unit is running

Learning outcomes

1.

Describe several examples of cultural differences that inhibit dialogue

2.

Describe the missiological approach of a cross-cultural agency

3.

Articulate and reflect on issues of gospel and culture

4.

Outline and analyse their own responses to being in another culture

5.

Analyse and evaluate a specific cross cultural model of engagement

Unit sequence

the field trip / experience must be at least seven days duration

Pedagogy

Face-to-face

Indicative Bibliography

  • De Vries, B,A. Champions of the poor. The economic consequences of Judeo-Christian values. Georgetown press. Washington.
  • Barker, A. Slum Life Rising: How to Enflesh Hope in a New Urban World. Springvale, UNOH, 2012.
  • Bevans, S. Models of contextual theology. Orbis. Maryknoll. 2007.
  • Castells, M. The end of millennium. Blackwell. 2009.
  • Gittins, A. J.* Ministry at the Margins: Strategy and Spirituality for Mission*. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2002.
  • Lingenfelter, S. G. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1986, 2003.
  • Luzbetak, L.J. he Church and Cultures: New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
  • Myers, B. L. Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development. Revised edition. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999, 2011.
  • Niebuhr, R. Christ and culture. Harper. New York.
  • Neuliep, J. W. Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publ., 2011.
  • Samuel, V & Sugden, C. The church in response to human need. Eerdmans. Grand Rapids.
  • Sedmak, C. Doing local theology. Orbis. Maryknoll. 2002
  • Taylor, C. A Secular Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Wink, W. The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. New York: Doubleday, 1998

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Essay

Major paper (2500 words)

2500 40.0
Journal

Reflective summary of journal (1500 words

1500 30.0
Essay

Responses to readings (2x1000)

2000 30.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 28 Jul, 2016

Unit record last updated: 2021-09-22 16:24:39 +1000