MM500/600: Spirituality and
Mission (4 units)
Jude
Tiersma Watson, Associate Professor of Urban Mission
Fall 2006 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
This course will help students develop an approach to their
spiritual life that integrates their spirituality with their missional
activities. A narrative approach will be introduced that will integrate the
student’s own pilgrimage, scripture, and the cultural context. Students will
think through their own pilgrimage as a way to share their faith with others.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES:
•
Students will develop a sustainable and foundational
approach to spirituality and mission.
• Students will understand how to sensitively
share their faith.
• Students will be challenged to think
cross-culturally about spirituality and mission.
COURSE FORMAT: This class will meet once weekly for three-hour sessions. Class format will use a variety of
approaches -- lecture, storytelling, video clips, class discussion and small
groups.
REQUIRED READING (for a total
of 1200 pages): If
you have previously read any of the required texts, please select an
alternative text from the recommended reading list or a book approved by the
instructor.
Foster, Richard. Streams of
Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith. Harper:
SF 2001.
Nouwen, el al, Compassion: a
Reflection on the Christian Life. Image Books, 1982.
OR: Claiborne, Shane, Irresistible
Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. Zondervan, 2006.
Tutu, Desmond, No Future
Without Forgiveness. Doubleday, 2000.
Wright, N.T. The Lord and His Prayer.
Eerdmans.
Reader, including a variety of cultural perspectives.
RECOMMENED
READING:
Foster, Richard. Prayer:
Finding the Heart’s True Home. Harper San Francisco, 1992.
Willard, Dallas. The Divine
Conspiracy.
Mother Teresa. Contemplative
in the Heart of the World.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Four journal reflection papers, 500 words each
2. 1200 pages of reading
3. Two 1750-2000 word papers:
•
Paper reflecting on the student’s spiritual
pilgrimage, and how their story can be used in witness.
•
Final paper on a topic relating spirituality and
mission
PREREQUISITES:
None.
RELATIONSHIP
TO CURRICULUM: Required course for MACCS; meets spirituality requirement for
MAT.
FINAL
EXAM: None.