God’s World Mission: WM310 Syllabus, Covenant Seminary

Course Objectives (bolding added)

To relate to God more deeply in understanding the role of cultural identity as a celebrated part of being created in His image.
To understand the relationship between theology and culture and the missiological importance of contextualization.
Theology Is a human response to God.
Theology is culturally mediated and filtered.
To value indigenous leadership in Christian missions and to cultivate meaningful and strategic partnership across cultural and national borders.
To acquire familiarity with the fullness of God’s world mission as it has played out across two-millenia of world Christian history.
To discern the role of sociological categories of identity (race, ethnicity, culture, class, nationality) in the spiritual formation of our community and that of others.
To lament the Western, white cultural captivity of the Church and to place ministerial priority on the socially and culturally marginalized.
Residue of this social phenomenon.
To identify cultural blind spots and to cultivate cross-cultural intelligence for the sake of intercultural friendship in the global Body of Christ.
To explore best practices in missions in both intracultural and intercultural ministry through the witness of contemporary missiological models of contextualization and indigenous leadership development.