Introduction to Missiology - RET6057

• Title: Introduction to Missiology
• Guaranteed by: Ecumenical Institute (27-EI)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2016 to 2017
• Semester: winter
• Points: 6
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C(+Ex) [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Timothy Noble, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. Timothy Noble, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

INTRODUCTION TO MISSIOLOGY
DOCENT TIM NOBLE PHD
Missiology is an academic discipline that undertakes the study of Christian mission in all its complexity. This course seeks to offer an introduction both to the discipline and to the complexity. The word “mission” can evoke all sorts of responses, positive and negative, and it is important to acknowledge these as a hermeneutical starting point. The course will look at mission as an encounter of stories. In Christian theology, the defining story is that of God’s self-revelation to the world, culminating in the coming of Jesus. This story is told in the bible, and the course thus looks at how the bible can be read as a story about the mission of God. But the death and resurrection of Jesus are both the culmination of the story and the beginning of the story of Christianity, and so we will also look at how women and men have engaged in the practice of mission. This mission always takes place somewhere, which makes context of fundamental importance, so we also look at how theology can be / is done contextually. The course will also examine why mission is done, what the aims of it are and what is needed to achieve this aim. But it will also insist that the other, the recipient of mission, is not a passive partner, but actively engaged in the journey towards God. We will finally consider some of the particular challenges of Christian mission in the particular context of the Czech Republic.