Code
CT8102W
Level
Postgraduate
Discipline
Christian Thought (CT)
Field
Christian Thought and History (C)
Prerequisites
Nil
Online
Yes
Location
On NAIITS international learning platform view location >
Faculty
Terry LeBlanc, with NAIITS faculty
Class Time
Combination of Synchronous online mode via Zoom and additional asynchronous component
(Three hours per week equivalent)
(Three hours per week equivalent)
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
- Describe their own cultural affirmations of Christian theology and the cultural forms in which it is embodied, including the place of ritual, song, metaphor and story in the student’s own theological position.
- Articulate their own theological terminologies and understanding as they relate to the larger communities in which the student finds her/himself.
- Describe in one’s own terms the basic creeds of the Christian tradition and how these have been operative in the Christian experiences of First Nations peoples.
- Critique the ways in which Christian theology enabled Indigenous communities to resist the powers of colonisation while simultaneously appropriating the heritage of Christian theology.
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Assessment
- Online forum (1,500 words) (30%)
- Book review (1,500 words) (30%)
- Report (3,000 words) (40%)
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Recommended reading
Set texts recommended for purchase are highlighted in blue
- Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley, and George E. Tinker. A Native American Theology. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2001.
- Friesen, John W. Aboriginal Spirituality & Biblical Theology: Closer than you think. Calgary: Detselig, 2000.
- Gondarra, Djiniyini, and Uniting Church in Australia. Northern Synod. Series of Reflections of Aboriginal Theology. Darwin: Bethel Presbytery, Northern Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia, 1986.
- Grenz, Stanley J. Theology for the Community of God. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.
- Grieves, Vicki. Aboriginal spirituality: Aboriginal philosophy, the basis of Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing. Darwin: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, 2009.
- Pouono, Terry. “Coconut water in a Coca Cola bottle” In search of an Identity: A New Zealand-born Samoan Christian in a Globalized World. Auckland, University of Auckland. PhD: 208, 2016
- Sanneh, Lamin O. Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
- Skye, Lee Miena. Kerygmatics of the New Millennium: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Women’s Christology. No. 4. ISPCK, 2007.
- Tiénou, Tite. “World Christianity and Theological Reflection.” In Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity, edited by Craig Ott and Harold A. Netland. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.
- Twiss, Richard. Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way. Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press, 2015
- Wilson, Martin J. New, Old and Timeless: Pointers Towards an Aboriginal Theology. Nelen Yubu Missiological Series. Moorabbin, Vic.: Chevalier Press, 1979.