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Re-Imagining Church in a Changing Culture (Tic7302 -20 Credits) RE-IMAGINING CHURCH IN A CHANGING CULTURE (TIC7302 -20 CREDITS) SARUM COLLEGE, MA IN THEOLOGY, IMAGINATIO N AND CULTURE & MA IN CHRISTIAN APPR OACHES TO LEADERSHIP NOVEMBER 2012 SUMMARY Much has been written about the continuing decline in Church membership and attendance as evidence of ‘the death of Christian Britain’, raising questions about the future of ‘organized religion’. This module aims to go beyond such ‘headlines’ and to equip students to critique the contemporary church, using both theological and sociological tools. The Church in Britain will be ‘read’ in the wider context of social, religious and cultural change, and compared with the situation in Europe, America and the developing world. Both the challenges facing the contemporary church, and the responses offered, will be critically examined, with particular reference to patterns of community, mission and ministry. This module will enable students to acquire the tools necessary to understand the Church in mission in contemporary culture. It will offer the opportunity to appraise new ways of being Church and assess the different types of Church growth both past and present. Students will be encouraged to learn about different cultures and explore different theologies in relation to mission. TUTORIAL TEAM Dr Colin J.D Greene [email protected] 01722 424818 As well as being Programme Leader for Theology, Imagination and Culture, Dr Greene is currently: Priest in Charge for St Gregory’s Parish Church, Marnhull, Dorset and Director of Metavista Associates. His background is in Systematic Theology having completed his Doctorate on the influential modern German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. From teaching Systematics he branched out into theological and philosophical hermeneutics and was a founder contributor, editor and consultant editor to the internationally acclaimed Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (nine volumes - 2000-9). In 2004 he published Christology in Cultural Perspective (Eerdmans and Paternoster) which won a prize from the Academy of Parish Clergy in the US as one of the top ten books of 2004. In 2008 he published, along with a former colleague, Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination (Paternoster). He has published a number of book chapters and is currently involved in a number of research and writing projects on the interface between theology, culture and biblical exegesis. Dr Jane Gledhill Dr Jane Gledhill is Associate Programme Leader in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College and an independent Scholar. Her research interests are in literature, art and spirituality. She is a former lecturer of Literature and Women’ Studies at the University of Kent. She has 1 | P a g e taught on the MA programme in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College since 1999 and has recently written a novel having also published a number of articles on the interface between art, literature and theology. Dr Louise Nelstrop [email protected] Is Director of Spirituality Programmes at Sarum College. She researches and has published in the areas of Medieval Spirituality and Practical Theology, particularly on the emerging church and fresh expressions movement. She is also the founder and co-organisator of the Mystical Theology Network: An International Academic Society which promotes the study of Mystical Theology both inside and outside the academy. Keith Lamdin [email protected] Keith Lamdin has been at the centre of leadership thinking and practice in the Church of England and has been involved with new developments in reflective practice and leadership for women seeking appointment to senior positions, leaders in church schools and for Bishops in the Church of England. With support from the Jerusalem Trust he has been developing Sarum as a centre for spiritual leadership. As principal of Sarum College (since December 2008) he not only exercises a leadership role himself but also specialises in the professional development of clergy, working as a consultant to senior clergy as well as to senior managers in the field of health care, education and the voluntary sector. Dr James Stevens [email protected] Dr Steven’s teaching experience in contemporary worship and ecclesiology includes analysis of ecclesiastical forms such as mega-church, emerging church and parish church from a practical theological perspective. He has also taught on liturgical theology and its role in informing the Bible and sacraments in worship. His doctoral research in the 1990s was an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Pentecostal / Charismatic spirituality upon public worship in the Church of England. The empirical methodological approach has become a standard reference for students engaged in practical theological research at King’s London. He has written a number of articles and book chapters on the areas of liturgical innovation and liturgical history. Revd Dr Graham Kings The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is the Bishop of Sherborne. Previously, he was Vicar of Islington, founding Director of the Henry Martyn Centre in the Cambridge Theological Federation and Vice Principal of St Andrew's College, Kabare, Kenya. He has written books on Kenyan Liturgies; Theology of Mission; and Spirituality and Art. MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES Having completed this module successfully learners should: 1. Have knowledge and understanding of the mission of the Church both an historical and a contemporary perspective. 2. Be able to evaluate ways in which mission can be understood in different cultures and contexts. 3. Be able to explain the relationship between mission and contemporary culture. 4. Comprehend an applied account of the complexities of mission in post-Christian and global contexts (e.g. evangelism, nurture, care, prophetic action and sustainability). 2 | P a g e TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODOLOGIES FOR STUDYING THEOLOGY AND CULTURE Learning how we ‘do’ theology is one of the most important first steps to engaging in creative interdisciplinary theology, of the sort aimed at by this course. In this student-led seminar, students will be asked to respond to key chapters in: ENGAGING WITH CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: Christianity, Theology and the Concrete Church by Martyn Percy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 258 pages, index. ISBN: 0754632598. This collection of essays by Percy, the Principal of Ripon College in the UK, takes up questions about the role of the church and theology within contemporary Western culture with a particular focus on the US and Europe. Percy argues that practical theology, i.e., a critical and constructive engagement by a living religious community with human experience that reflects on its meanings and value, is fundamental to a sustained and informed interaction and ministry in and to the modern world. Through the methods of cultural studies, he seeks to explore the different meanings and interactions of churches and Christians with the varied aspects of contemporary culture. You will have been randomly assigned a chapter from this book before attending the module about which you will be asked to give a brief presentation during the seminar. More information about this assignment is below. DURING RESIDENTIAL INTENSIVES At Sarum College, MA students learn collaboratively in small cohorts which meet for four-day residential intensives throughout the year. This distributed and flexible mode of delivery combines class-based and home-based study and allows working students and students at a distance to benefit from contact with tutors and lecturers, with minimal disruption to their domestic, ministerial, or professional lives. Moreover, by consolidating our class-based teaching into four-day intensive breaks, we are able to recruit world-leading scholars and seasoned practitioners to guest-lecture on many of our courses. Each full day of the module will consist of four classroom sessions of approximately 1.5 hours each. There will also be time allocated for meeting your personal tutor and using the library. This intensive residential study week will include the following modes of delivery: Lectures: individual members of the teaching team will deliver material on the core themes of the module in light of their own teaching and research perspectives Student-led seminars: students will present assessed work on topics relevant to the module which they have researched and prepared either individually or in a group. These seminars promote peer learning and provide a safe environment to develop communication and collaboration skills Discussion-based seminars: students, tutors and / or lecturers will discuss a common text or cultural form and exercise a variety of methodological approaches to evaluate that form (e.g. poetry readings, film viewings and discussions, performances, etc.) 3 | P a g e INTENSIVE TIMETABLE Time Re- Imagining Church some contemporary strategies Tutor Location 2.30 Registration Reception Desk 3.00 Lecture: Re-Imagining Church - A Personal Reflection – CG Tindall Church Growth and Cultural Engagement 5.00 TEA Tindall 6.30 SUPPER Refectory Monday 7.15 Seminar: Re-Imagining Church – How would you do it? CG Tindall Informal social in bar Common Room Library staffed from 9am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm Re- Imagining Church – strategies and forms 8.15 BREAKFAST (for residential students) Refectory 9.15 Lecture: Re-Imagining Church - Leadership Development KL Tindall 10.45 BREAK (Coffee/Tea) Common Room 11.15 Lecture: Re- Imagining Church - Emergent and Fresh LN Tindall Expressions 12.45 College Prayers (optional) Chapel 1.00
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