Spring 2019/Pasadena
MT502
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MT502: Missiological Hermeneutics (4 Units: 160 hours). Keon-Sang
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DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to
the relationship between biblical interpretation and the theology and practice
of Christian mission. Participants will grapple with the importance of mission
for reading the Bible and the teaching of the Bible on mission. This will
include the missiological orientation of biblical texts, diverse paradigms for
missional practice in Scripture, and issues of contextualization as students
seek to understand the significance of mission for reading the Bible and for
embodying Scripture’s witness in their contexts. LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who successfully complete this
course will have demonstrated the ability: (1) to describe the emergence of
missiological hermeneutics, including its varieties and major proponents, as a
development of biblical hermeneutics; (2) to evaluate recent proposals regarding missiological
hermeneutics in light of the historical context of Christian use of the
Bible in mission; (3) to explain how the mission of God, as a unifying theme of Scripture,
relates to diverse Scriptural paradigms of mission; (4) to apply biblical paradigms of mission to
particular mission contexts. COURSE FORMAT: This class meets intensively from 8:00 am –
4:50 pm April 22-26, 2019 for a total 40 hours of classroom instruction for
lecture and group discussion. REQUIRED READING: 1,175 pages of required reading. Barram, M. “성경, 선교, 그리고 사회적 위치: 선교적 해석학을 향하여”(The Bible, Mission,
and Social Location: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic). Interpretation 61
(2007): 42-58. [17 pages assigned] Bosch, David. 변화하고 있는 선교: 선교신학의 패러다임 전환 (Transforming
Mission).
기독교문서선교회. 2010. ISBN: 9788934106616. [284 pages assigned]. · Freely available as an eBook through the
Hubbard Library Computer Lab (Korean Computer) Goheen, Michael W. 열방에 빛을: 온 세상을 향한 하나님의 선교 이야기 (Light to the Nations, A: The Missional
Church and the Biblical Story). 복있는사람. 2012. ISBN: 9788963600802. [472 pages assigned]. .