Reflective Ministry Practice Capstone (XP3741Z)

Content

As a capstone unit, Reflective Ministry Practice will draw upon students' study and practice throughout various fields of theology to integrate this learning with ministry practice. The unit will focus upon reflective and reflexive practices in ministry in order to develop creative responses to ministry situations.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

A capstone unit in undergraduate theology and ministry awards

Prerequisite Units: DP2742Z Integrative Ministry Practice

Pedagogy

UCLT uses primary and secondary sources considered through different lenses to identify and explore the challenges of the unit material for the contemporary world. Students are engaged in a range of comparative, analytical and reflective practices to identify the original meanings of the text in their contexts and to interpret them hermeneutically.

Indicative Bibliography

• Berry, Wendell. A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 1998.
• Campbell-Reed, Eileen R. Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2021.
• Douglas, Sally. The Church As Salt: Becoming the Community Jesus Speaks About. Bayswater, Vic: Coventry Press, 2021.
• Ford, David F. Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Loorz, Victoria. Church of the Wild: How nature invites us into the Sacred. Broadleaf Books, 2021.
• Muller, Sabrina. Lived Theology: Impulses for a pastoral theology of empowerment. Wipe and Stock, 2021.
• Scharen, Christian A.B. & Campbell-Reed, Eileen R. ‘Learning Pastoral Imagination - A Five-Year Report On How New Ministers Learn in Practice.’ Auburn Studies, Winter 2016.
• Thompson, Judith. Theological Reflection. SCM Press, 2008.
• Wiman, Christian. He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Assessment