Section: 5 November 2025 | Introduction to Missiology (RET 6057) WS [25/26]

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This course will offer an introduction to the discipline of missiology. It will start with a brief overview of the history of the discipline, and will then look at major themes in the history and theology of mission. The course will start with the biblical material, seeing the Bible not simply as having something to say about mission as well as other things, but as emerging from the demands of mission. We will look at some key themes of contemporary missiology, such as the importance and difficulty of context, the idea of missio Dei, the theological foundations of mission. We will also have an overview of the historical development of mission. We will finish by looking at some key questions, especially the role of other religions and Christian attitudes towards them, and the possibility of doing Christian mission today.

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Mission in the Old Testament

This week’s class will look at reading the Old Testament missionally. We will start with looking at the key text of Genesis 12:1-4, as the beginning of the story of God's mission of blessing. Then we take the story of Jeremiah, not normally regarded as being primarily about mission. We will read this story, using the missional hermeneutics we examined previously, to see what the story might have to tell us about the nature of mission, of being sent by God. We consider the person of the missionary, the techniques, word and deed, the necessary involvement in politics, the tasks of the missionary to proclaim truth against lies, and consider how Jeremiah might be a blessing to Israel and the nations.
- Select activity Powerpoint on Bible and Mission
  
  Powerpoint on Bible and Mission File PPTX
  
  This is the powerpoint for the class
  
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- Select activity Genesis 12:1-4
  
  Genesis 12:1-4 File PDF
  
  Christopher Wright, The Mission of God : Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 192–221.
  
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- Select activity Jeremiah and Politics
  
  Jeremiah and Politics File PDF
  
  Chris William Erdman, “Entering the Wreckage: Grief and Hope in Jeremiah and the Rescripting of the Pastoral Vocation in a Time of Geopolitical Crisis,” International Review of Mission 92:365 (2003) 169–77
  
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- Select activity Jeremiah and the "False Prophets"
  
  Jeremiah and the "False Prophets" File PDF
  
  Francesco Arena, “False Prophets in the Book of Jeremiah: Did They All Prophesy and Speak Falsehood?,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 34:2 (2020) 187-200
  
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- Select activity The Search for Shalom
  
  The Search for Shalom File PDF
  
  Georg Fischer SJ, “Is there Shalom, or Not? Jeremiah, a Prophet for South Africa,” Old Testament Essays 28:2 (2015) 351–70
  
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- Select activity The "Call" of Jeremiah
  
  The "Call" of Jeremiah File PDF
  
  Esther Roshwalb, “Jeremiah 1.4-10: ‘Lost and Found’ in Translation and a New Interpretation,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34:3 (2010) 351–76
  
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- Select activity The Battles between the Prophets
  
  The Battles between the Prophets File PDF
  
  Wilhelm Wessels, “Prophet versus Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah: In Search of the True Prophets,” Old Testament Essays 22:3 (2009) 733-51
  
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- Select activity Jeremiah as a Prophet of Hope
  
  Jeremiah as a Prophet of Hope File PDF
  
  Louis Stulman, “Jeremiah as a Messenger of Hope in Crisis,” Interpretation 62:1 (2008) 5–20.
  
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