Creation

Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:

Undergraduate

1. Demonstrate an informed and coherent engagement with theological accounts of creation. 
2. Develop confidence in engaging with a diverse range of texts, statements, and appropriate literature representing the manner in which the broader Christian tradition, indigenous traditions, and other religious traditions, have developed understandings of creation.  
3. Describe and evaluate the range of practices deployed by Christian communities in order to respond to and engage with creation. 
4. Exhibit capacity for independent theological reflection upon a range of issues arising from the unit. 
5. For CT: Formulate research criteria and methodologies for engaging in theologies of creation in contemporary contexts. 
6. For DA: Describe and justify an integrated level of application of unit learning to the practice of ministry or mission in the contemporary world. 

Postgraduate

1. Demonstrate an informed, coherent, and critical engagement with theological accounts of creation. 
2. Develop confidence in critical engagement with a diverse range of texts, statements, and appropriate literature representing the manner in which the broader Christian tradition, indigenous traditions, and other religious traditions, have developed understandings of creation.  
3. Critically evaluate the range of practices deployed by Christian communities in order to respond to and engage with creation. 
4. Exhibit capacity for independent and critical theological reflection upon a range of issues arising from the unit. 
5. For CT: Formulate research criteria and methodologies for engaging in theologies of creation in contemporary contexts. 
6. For DA: Describe and justify an integrated and advanced level of application of unit learning to the practice of ministry or mission in the contemporary world. 

Undergraduate

• Annotated bibliography (1,500 words) (30%)
• Newspaper article (500 words) (20%)
• Essay (2,500 words) (50%)

Postgraduate

• Annotated bibliography (2,000 words) (30%)
• Newspaper article (1,000 words) (20%)
• Essay (4,000 words) (50%)

• Bauckham, Richard. Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011. 
• Cavanaugh, William T., ed., Fragile World: Ecology and the Church. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2018. 
• Clough, David L. On Animals. Volume 1: Systematic Theology. London: T&T Clark, 2012. 
• Clough, David L. On Animals. Volume 2: Theological Ethics. London: T&T Clark, 2018. 
• Deane-Drummond, Celia, A Primer in Ecotheology. Eugene: Cascade Companions, 2017. 
• Fergusson, David, Creation. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014. 
• Gammage, Bill, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011. 
• Hallman, D. G., ed., Ecotheology: Voices from South and North. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2009. 
• Hart, John, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons,2017. 
• Keller, Catherine. Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2003. 
• McFague, Sally, A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. 
• Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.  
• Torrance, Thomas F., Divine and Contingent Order. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2005. 
• Weir, Jessica, ed., Country, Native Title and Ecology. Canberra: ANU EPress, 2012. 

Set texts recommended for purchase: Nil