CTM202 Mission in Context

Mike Parsons

Ludlow & Cheltenham Easter Term 2010

 

 

 

 

Class Schedule - Cheltenham

Class Schedule - Ludlow

Assignment titles

Bibliography

 

Resources

 

What is Mission?  - wk1 handout

 

Returning the Entrance Ticket  (from The Brothers Karamazov)

 

The Vulnerable God and the Problem of Suffering      (ch 5 Paul Fiddes, Participating in God) 225k pdf

MP wk3 handout on the above

The Go Between God -  J V Taylor: an extract

Mission and Natural Disasters   (pdf of powerpoint presentation)

Introduction to David Bosch      (pdf of powerpoint presentation)_

A Letter From Claire   Case study for second session on Bosch (pdf)

 

Week 7

The emerging paradigm: last ppt on David Bosch

 

Week 8

Mission: Context Truth & Doctrine

 

What is context and what is contextualisation?

 

 

Week 10

Language & God (preparatory reading)      A womanist Eucharist (Preparatory reading)

 

Miss-iology meets Ms-theology ( A resource)

 

Week 11 (final session)

Preparatory task       

 

The impossibility of not believing ( Bosch )

 

Salvation outside of the Church - but then why evangelize?  A RC perspective: Stephen Bevans

 

Purgatory for Everyone? A US Methodist view  

 

The Congregation as Hermeneutic of the Gospel

Lesslie Newbiggin

 

Syncretism:”If Contextualisation is good syncretism is syncretism just bad contextualisation? John Roxborogh http://roxborogh.com/syncretism.htm