Here are three assignments written for this course.  The course is about missional theology and what it means for the local church context.   Missional theology is not so much a recent fad but rather the result of a new and profound conclusion that mission is not just a project of the church but is descriptive of God’s nature.  In the last fifty years plus there has been a theological convergence among ecumenicals and missiologists that God is a missionary God (missio dei).  The implications of that singular and biblical insight turns a lot of existing understandings of the church on its head.  No longer can we maintain a separation between church and mission.  If God is on mission so it would seem that the church would be on mission locally and globally.  In this course we read some great books and the leading one is by David Bosch, Transforming Mission.  It is one of the seminal books on missional theology and is not for the faint of heart.  His writing is lucid and it is very well researched and supported.  He traces the history of missions from the New Testament up until the recent.   It is a masterful treatment that will challenge many of your pre-existing opinions and inspire you to consider what it is that God is doing in our world today.

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