This topic focusses on the attitudes, worldview, and dispositions needed for ministry practitioners to effectively offer ministry in liminal spaces within their community. Starting with deep listening and the capacity to ‘read’ the dominant value and cultural systems at hand, this topic looks at radical discipleship, intercultural relational skills, and humility and friendship to offer ministry ‘with’ others. Themes of liberation, struggle, solidarity, and dialogue will be explored to deepen the students understanding of missional engagement. Theological reflection skills will be developed through practises evidenced in case studies and field visits with current community ministers. Students will learn to develop local or ‘little’ theologies and liturgies for liminal spaces outside the gathered Christian community.
Unit code: DM9747Z
Unit status: Approved (New unit)
Points: 24.0
Unit level: Postgraduate Elective
Unit discipline: Missiology
Proposing College: Uniting College for Leadership and Theology
Show when this unit is running| 1. | Critically reflect on the attributes, worldview and ministry dispositions needed for ministry in liminal spaces |
| 2. | Critically analyse dominant values and cultural systems of named contexts |
| 3. | Apply skills and themes learned and critically discussed to offer appropriate ministry ‘with’ others |
| 4. | Innovate a ‘little’ or local theology and liturgy for a key moment in the life of a community |
| 5. | Employ knowledge and skills developed in the unit to develop a resource suitable for a selected ministry context |
A unit available for postgraduate elective study
UCLT uses primary and secondary sources considered through different lenses to identify and explore the challenges of the unit material for the contemporary world. Students are engaged in a range of comparative, analytical and reflective practices to identify the original meanings of the text in their contexts and to interpret them hermeneutically.
| Type | Description | Word count | Weight (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio - Reflections on ministry dispositions and skills | Multi-media in presentation. |
2000 | 30.0 |
| Case Study - Analysis and response | Analyse dominant values and cultural systems in a named context and draw from skills and themes discussed in the unit to propose an appropriate response for offering ministry ‘with’ others. |
2750 | 35.0 |
| Seminar or Tutorial | Innovate a ‘little’ or local theology expressed as an exegeted (original) liturgy for a named social context. This may be presented in class or recorded (determined at commencement of unit delivery). Present in the form of a seminar, either in class or recorded (45 minutes). |
2750 | 35.0 |
Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Prof Albert Haddad on 1 Aug, 2023
Unit record last updated: 2023-08-01 20:06:15 +1000