Recent approaches to mission (DM9015Y)

Postgraduate, 24.0 points

Content

The unit is concerned to reflect on the missiological consequences of the biblical depiction of God being a God of life, and the challenges provided by conditions of violence, globalisation, and migration. The unit may explore thee issues in the light of current mission practices that reject exclusion and inequality through employing human rights, reconciliation, and advocacy.

Unit code: DM9015Y

Unit status: Approved (Major revision)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Elective

Unit discipline: Missiology

Delivery Mode: Blended

Proposing College: Yarra Theological Union

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Learning outcomes

1.

Identify and critically analyse challenges facing human society today
2.

Critically reflect on how Christian mission can serve life
3.

Evaluate relevant missional expressions
4.

Evaluate the understanding of mission in Evangelii Gaudium
5.

Assess relevant mission practices within an Australian Context

Unit sequence

1x DM unit

Pedagogy

Synchronous and asynchronous lectures and tutorials

Indicative Bibliography

  • Barnett, Mike (ed). Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practice for the 21st Century. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012.
  • Bevans, Stephen B. Mission and Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.
  • Bolger, Ryan (ed). The Gospel after Christendom: New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.
  • Coloe, Mary L. Creation is Groaning: Biblical and Theological Perspectives. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013.
  • Drew, Rose. Buddhist and Christian? An exploration of dual belonging, London: Routledge, 2011.
  • Engelsviken, Rormod & Solheim. Dagfinn. The Church Going Glocal: Mission and Globalization: Proceedings of the Fjellhaug Symposium 2010. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2011.
  • Kalu, Ogbu., Peter Vethanayagamony, and Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, (eds) Mission after Christendom, Emergent Themes in Contemporary Mission. Louisville, KY: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 2010.
  • Montgomery, Robert L. Why Religions Spread: The Expansion of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam with Implications for Mission (2nd ed). Ashville, NC: Cross lines Publication 2012.
  • Schreiter, R and Joergensen (eds). Mission as Ministry of Reconciliation. Oxford: Regnum, 2013
  • Walls, Andrew F., and Cathy Ross, eds. Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Portfolio 7000 100.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Prof Albert Haddad on 25 Jun, 2026

Unit record last updated: 2026-06-25 11:36:06 +1000