Course Description
How do we share Christianity’s good news in intelligible and attractive ways in rapidly changing cultural contexts? This course considers a variety of rhetorical styles, strategies of communication, and conceptual frameworks to enhance one’s ability to think theologically “on one’s feet.” Conversation between inherited Christian formulations and contemporary sensibilities and questions facilitates engagement with those who have never been churched. Embodiment and storytelling reimagine how we conceptualize literacies of sacred Word.
Course Objectives
• To exercise tools for presenting the gospel in a variety of idioms
• To explore how interactive theatre techniques can apply to ministry contexts and pedagogies
• To engage the body, voice, and imagination to expand exegetical and proclamatory practices
From the Assessment Map:
Goal II. To develop critical skills for theological analysis of and creative engagement with current challenges and changes in the church and in the world.
Outcome II. Students demonstrate the ability to bring diverse modes of thought to bear on a contemporary problem or topic.
Goal IV. To critically engage matters of faith, justice, and human difference in local and global contexts.
Outcome IV. Students demonstrate the ability to work alongside diverse people, with sensitivity to individual and systemic obstacles to human flourishing.
How do we share Christianity’s good news in intelligible and attractive ways in rapidly changing cultural contexts? This course considers a variety of rhetorical styles, strategies of communication, and conceptual frameworks to enhance one’s ability to think theologically “on one’s feet.” Conversation between inherited Christian formulations and contemporary sensibilities and questions facilitates engagement with those who have never been churched. Embodiment and storytelling reimagine how we conceptualize literacies of sacred Word.
Course Objectives
• To exercise tools for presenting the gospel in a variety of idioms
• To explore how interactive theatre techniques can apply to ministry contexts and pedagogies
• To engage the body, voice, and imagination to expand exegetical and proclamatory practices
From the Assessment Map:
Goal II. To develop critical skills for theological analysis of and creative engagement with current challenges and changes in the church and in the world.
Outcome II. Students demonstrate the ability to bring diverse modes of thought to bear on a contemporary problem or topic.
Goal IV. To critically engage matters of faith, justice, and human difference in local and global contexts.
Outcome IV. Students demonstrate the ability to work alongside diverse people, with sensitivity to individual and systemic obstacles to human flourishing.
- Teacher: Tiffany Trent