The Missional New Testament (DM9400T)

Content

In this unit students will develop a missional hermeneutic which engages with New Testament texts. This methodology will enable students to identify events and principles within the NT which both critique and support contemporary missional practices.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

BN8000T/9T or equivalent

Pedagogy

Lectures, and class discussion; assignments

Indicative Bibliography

• Flemming, Dean. Contextualisation in the New Testament. Downers Grove IL: IVP, 2005.
• Gallagher, Robert L. & Hertig, Paul (eds). Mission in Acts: Ancient Narratives in Contemporary Context. Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 2004.
• Gorman, Michael J. Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation & Mission. Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2015.
• ______. Abide & Go: Missional Theosis in the Gospel of John. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2018.
  • King, Fergus J., A Missional Introduction to the New Testament (revised edition -previously published by the Missional Unversity Press, 2021).
• Larkin, William J. & Williams, Joel F. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach. Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 1998.
• Legrand, Lucien. Unity and Plurality: Mission in the Bible. Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 1990.
• Middleton, Richard H. A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology. Grand Rapids MI: Baker, 2014.
• Nissen, Johannes. New Testament and Mission: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004
• Plummer, Robert L. &Terry, John Mark (eds). Paul’s MIssionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Downers Grove IL: IVP, 2014.
• Schnabel, Echkhard. Early Christian Mission (2 Vols.). Downers Grove IL: IVP/ Leicester: Apollos, 2004.

Assessment