MI510/610: Thinking Missiologically (4
units)
Doug McConnell, Dean and Associate Professor of
Leadership
Winter 2007 Pasadena
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
As
with every field of study, missiology has its particular focus, literature, and
methods. To engage in missiological integration requires appropriate skills to
use the tools and resources available. This course integrates the learning from
the core courses in missiology taught in the MA degrees in the School of
Intercultural Studies. A special feature of the course is the use made of the
case study model to engage missiological investigation, reflection, and action.
The School of Intercultural Studies’ framework for missiological study—Word, Church, and World—will be
employed. Because effective missiology is developed interactively, opportunity
will be given for collaboration in learning.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES:
•
Describe the contribution of each of the core courses in the MACCS or MAICS
programs of the School of Intercultural Studies to the theory and practice of
missiological integration.
• Distinguish the critical contributions of each of the core missiological
disciplines to the issues in a particular context as identified in a case
study.
• Formulate a response to a case study that reflects the missiological
integration related to the relevant issues identified in a case study.
COURSE
FORMAT: 10-week course will meet one day per week for 4 hour sessions. The
class combines introductory lectures on major themes of missiology with small
group engagement centered on case studies.
REQUIRED READING: Read 1,200 pages from the following. 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.
Gerald H. Anderson, et al., eds., Mission
Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Mission Movement.
Orbis Books, 1994.
John Isbister, Promises Not Kept:
The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World. 7th edition. Kumarian
Press, 2006.
Wilbert R. Shenk, ed. The Transfiguration of Mission. Herald, 1993.
RECOMMENDED
READING:
Charles
R. Taber, To Understand the World, to
Save the World: The Interface Between Missiology and the Social Sciences.
Trinity Press International, 2000.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. A 500 word critical
reflection on each of the required books by Isbister and Shenk.
2. The class will be divided into teams of 5 persons. Each team will
collaborate on the 4 assigned case studies. Each student will submit a 500-word
paper identifying at least one critical contribution from a minimum of three
missiological disciplines for each case study. The group will submit a
3,000-word integration response to one of the cases and participate in an
integration exercise with other groups designed to facilitate collaboration.
3. A 2,000-word paper describing the nature of missiological integration based
on the student learning outcomes for the School of Intercultural Studies. This
paper should demonstrate knowledge of the integration of missiological
perspectives, contextual factors and insights gained from the study of the core
courses in missiology.
4. ThM. students: read and write a review of an additional book from Basic
Books in Missiology list (for a total of 4 reviews); write a 4,000-word
term paper. This should demonstrate a more rigorous and advanced understanding
of missiological method and application.
PREREQUISITES:
Students must have completed 24 units of Missiology courses including 16 units
of MACCS or MAICS Core Competencies.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: For MAICS
meets core competency/integration requirement. For MACCS meets integration
requirement.
FINAL EXAM: None.
Last Date Edited:
October 3, 2006