Description
The course will address issues for Christian mission in a late modern Western society such as Scotland or the U.S., within the tensions caused by the on-going processes of secularization in the public realm and decline in the institutional Church. Using David Bosch?s Transforming Mission and Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder?s Constants in Context as general guides, supplemented by key texts, present day missiological theory and practice will be considered and discussed. The focus from those texts will be upon the contextualization of mission in the local, carried out in bold humility, with the aim of engaging in prophetic dialogue and reconciliation with those in the immediate culture(s). Topics such as the missio Dei; mission and evangelism; mission and social justice; mission and other faiths; contextualization of mission; and mission and post-modernity, will be encountered. The goals of the course will be, firstly, to gain or deepen an understanding of the theories and challenges