UMS : Unit: DA9039W

Content

This unit will investigate and engage with critical theological, biblical, pastoral, and missiological resources on a range of understandings of creation. Ecumenical, Indigenous, and interfaith perspectives will be considered.

Students will be equipped to formulate their own theological, ethical, and practical responses to contemporary questions.

Unit code: DA9039W

Unit status: Approved (New unit)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Elective

Unit discipline: Mission and Ministry

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

Proposing College: Whitley College

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Learning outcomes

1.	Demonstrate an informed, coherent, and critical engagement with theological accounts of creation.
2.	Develop confidence in critical engagement with a diverse range of texts, statements, and appropriate literature representing the manner in which the broader Christian tradition, indigenous traditions, and other religious traditions, have developed understandings of creation.
3.	Critically evaluate the range of practices deployed by Christian communities in order to respond to and engage with creation.
4.	Exhibit capacity for independent and critical theological reflection upon a range of issues arising from the unit.
5.	Describe and justify an integrated and advanced level of application of unit learning to the practice of ministry or mission in the contemporary world.s.

Unit sequence

This is an elective PG unit that assumes and builds on study undertaken in PG foundational units. Prerequisites: 24 points in DA and 24 points in Field B

Pedagogy

Central to the Unit’s pedagogy will be praxis-focused theological enquiry that engages with case study, prior student experience, practitioner narrative, and expert testimony. The Unit aims to equip the student with a more coherent and comprehensive theo-logic oriented towards Christian engagement with the creation.

Indicative Bibliography

Bauckham, Richard. Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011.
Cavanaugh, William T., ed. Fragile World: Ecology and the Church. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2018.
Clough, David L. On Animals. Volume 1: Systematic Theology. London: T&T Clark, 2012.
Clough, David L. On Animals. Volume 2: Theological Ethics. London: T&T Clark, 2018.
Deane-Drummond, Celia. A Primer in Ecotheology. Eugene: Cascade Companions, 2017.
Fergusson, David. Creation. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014.
Gammage, Bill.  The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011.
Hallman, D. G., ed. Ecotheology: Voices from South and North. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2009.
Hart, John, ed. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons,2017.
Keller, Catherine. Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2003.
McFague, Sally. A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.
Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.
Torrance, Thomas F. Divine and Contingent Order. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2005.
Weir, Jessica, ed. Country, Native Title and Ecology. Canberra: ANU EPress, 2012.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Annotated Bibliography	Annotated bibliography	2000	30.0
Article (for Newspaper, e.g. letter to the editor)	Newspaper article	1000	20.0
Essay	Essay	4000	50.0

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Maggie Kappelhoff on 23 Sep, 2020

Unit record last updated: 2020-09-23 17:25:47 +1000