EM044-812 - Missional Hermeneutics
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2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
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12Credit Points
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0.125 EFT
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8AQF level
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Category advanced unitC
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evangelism missiolUnit Discipline
Exclusions
Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code EM721-4.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students willA. Know and understand
1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, missional hermeneutics
B. Be able to
1. Examine recent scholarship on missional hermeneutics
2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the application of missional hermeneutics
3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on missional hermeneutics
C. Be in a position to
1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Missional Hermeneutics’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner
Content
The unit will include a discussion of the following themes as they are developed in selected biblical books and corpora, and across the canon:
- The development and nature of missional hermeneutics.
- God and mission: revelation, monotheism and idolatry, the missio Dei and the trinitarian character of mission.
- God’s people and mission: election, universality and particularity, redemption, restoration, covenant, gospel, sentness, and ethics.
- God’s world and mission: creation, culture, and the nations.
Set Readings
This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.
Prescribed:
Wright, C. (2006) The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press
Brown, J. (2007) Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics, Grand Rapids, Baker.
Recommended (books):
Bauckham, R. (2003) Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World, Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press
Beeby, H. (1999) Canon and Mission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International
Bosch, D. (2011) Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books
Brownson, J. (1998) Speaking the Truth in Love: New Testament Resources for a Missional Hermeneutic, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International
Goheen, M.W. (2011) A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic
Gorman, Michael J. (2015) Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
Kaiser, W. (2000) Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House
Okoye, J. (2006) Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books
Redford, S.B. (2012) Missiological Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation and the Global Church, Eugene: Pickwick Publications
Russell, Brian (2016) (re)Aligning with God: Reading Scripture for Church and World, Eugene: Cascade
Sarma, Bitrus A. (2015) Hermeneutics of Mission in Matthew: Israel and the Nations in the Interpretative Framework of Matthew's Gospel, Carlisle: Langham Monographs
Starling, D. I. (2016) Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible shapes our interpretive habits and practices, Grand Rapids: Baker.
Stroope, M. (2017) Transcending Mission: The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
Work, T. (2001). Living and active: Scripture in the economy of salvation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Wright, C. (2010) The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission, Grand Rapids: Zondervan
Recommended (journal articles):
Barram, M. ‘The Bible, Mission, and Social Location: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic’, Interpretation, 61 (2007), pp.42-58.
Goheen, M.W. (2008) ‘Continuing Steps Towards a Missional Hermeneutic’, Fideles, 3 (2008), pp.49-99
Hunsberger, G. (2011) ‘Proposals for a Missional Hermeneutic: Mapping a Conversation’, Missiology, XXXIX:3 (2011), pp.309-321