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EMT 3541/6451HF
MISSION AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
DRAFT (final version to be distributed on the first day of class)
Instructor: Tom Reynolds -- [email protected]
TA: Gina Bae -- [email protected]
Meeting times: Thursday 2-4 pm
Mission means serving, healing, and reconciling a divided, wounded humanity.
David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission
The Church affirms that God is acting to reconcile and make new, to heal and restore, to bend the
creation back toward what, according to the ancient story, it was originally created to be. . . .
The Church’s responsibility is to align itself with God’s initiatives . . .
UCC, Mending the World
Course Description
Taking into account recent paradigm shifts in the theology of mission, this course considers the
relationship of mission to biblical sources, culture and context, unity and difference in World
Christianity, postcolonialism and intercultural engagement, and especially religious pluralism.
The goal is to foster critical theological reflection, particularly on how people of faith in a
multifaceted and religiously diverse situation today might best discern and participate in God’s
creative and healing work in the world.
Prerequisite: completion of Theology I is needed for Basic Degree Students to enrol in this
course, unless permission is given by the instructor.
Course Texts (the books are available at Crux Books, Wycliffe College)
Walter Brueggemann, ed., Hope for the World: Mission in a Global Context (Louisville:
Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).
Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Mission: An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon, 2002)
Catherine Cornille, The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (New York: Crossroad,
2008)
Letty Russell, Just Hospitality: God’s Welcome in a World of Difference, eds. J. Shannon
Clarkson and Kate M. Ott (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2009).
Other readings shall be available on library reserve or provided online at the class website.
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Basic Degree Level Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this class, the successful student should be able to…
1. Articulate biblical perspectives of mission vis-à-vis the church
2. Acknowledge the ways the church has been connected to colonialism, noting the
historical effects.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the modern anthropological notion of culture and be able to
assess its implications for an understanding of faith as responsive to the needs and
challenges of particular contexts.
4. Recognize the complexities of religious identity and unity in different cultural settings
and historical periods.
5. Articulate dimensions of mission in an intercultural church
6. Identify the basic features of postcolonial theory and note their application for faith in
community.
7. Show familiarity with the contemporary fact and challenge of religious pluralism and be
able to critically assess its implications for faith, analyzing various approaches that seek
to navigate between absolutism and relativism.
8. Show a basic understanding of ways several religious traditions have attended to religious
diversity.
9. Consider theological reflection as a vehicle for promoting right relations and for
cultivating shalom between peoples.
10. Demonstrate empathetic and critical thinking, both in reading and in writing.
Graduate Level Learning Outcomes
COURSE OUTCOMES COURSE ELEMENT PROGRAM OUTCOMES
By the end of this course,
students successfully
completing, will have
acquired the following levels
of knowledge:
This outcome will be
achieved through these
course elements:
This course outcome
corresponds to this aspect of
the TST outcomes statement
for the individual AD
programs:
*demonstrate knowledge of
biblical and historical
perspectives informing various
understandings of mission
• lectures (weeks 2-4)
• book assessment
• course as a whole
• PhD: 1.1; 1.2
• ThM I: 1.2
• ThM II: 1.2
• MA: 1.2
*display competence in
articulating the ways
Christianity has been linked to
colonial endeavors, noting the
historical effects
• lectures (weeks 5-8)
• book assessment
• research paper
• PhD: 1.1; 1.2
• ThM I: 1.3
• ThM II: 1.2
• MA: 1.3
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*show proficiency in
identifying the diversity of
viewpoints and practices
within their own and others
religious traditions in terms of
understanding religious
pluralism.
• lectures (weeks 4, 7-8)
• book assessment
• presentation
• research paper
• PhD: 1.1, 1.2
• ThM I: 1.3
• ThM II: 1.2
• MA: 1.3
*demonstrate knowledge of the
contemporary fact and
challenge of religious
pluralism and show ability to
critically assess its
implications for faith,
analyzing various approaches
• lectures (weeks 8-12)
• research paper
• ThD/PhD: 1.1; 1.2
• ThM I: 1.3
• ThM II: 1.2
• MA: 1.3
By the end of this course, students successfully completing, will have had an opportunity to demonstrate and enhance their level of ability in the following areas:
This outcome will be achieved through these course elements:
This course outcome corresponds to this aspect of the TST outcomes statement for the individual AD programs:
Demonstrate scholarly skills
in:
• clear and effective
communication in both oral
and written forms;
• the construction of a logical
argument;
• the making of informed
judgments on complex issues;
• the use of standard
conventions of style for
scholarly writing.
• presentation
• book assessment
• research paper
• ThD/PhD: 2.2.5
• ThM I: 2.2.6
• ThM II: 2.2.5
• MA: 2.2.6
By the end of this course,
students successfully
completing, will have had an
opportunity to demonstrate
and enhance the following
areas of vocational
preparation:
This outcome will be
achieved through these
course elements:
This course outcome
corresponds to this aspect of
the TST outcomes statement
for the individual AD
programs:
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• demonstrate awareness of
the contextual character of
faith and theological
significance of its current
ecumenical and interreligious
global challenges.
• course as a whole
• seminars
• interaction with students
from other ecclesiastical and
theological traditions
• ThD/PhD: 4.3.1.2
Class-Time Format
The basic arrangement of our time in class will be that of lecture-discussion. The purpose of the
lectures will be to introduce, help clarify and expand the context and substance of the readings.
The discussions are designed to provide an interactive and open environment to explore relevant
materials. The overall strategy behind this course is to generate critical reflection, so questions,
comments, and reflections are welcome at all times.
Course Requirements and Assignments
1. Class Attendance and Participation...............…....….. 10%
2. Reading Reflections Journal / Presentation...……….. 20%
3. Midterm Assignment: Book Assessment ….…..…… 30%
4. Integrative Paper....................................….................. 40%
1. Regular attendance and informed participation in class is an important part of the learning
experience. Because discussion is a key part of the class, nurturing an engagement with course
materials, your questions and comments are valued and will be a factor in the overall grade. To
this end, it is expected that you will have done the readings and be prepared to contribute.
Careful and critical reading is fundamental to informed participation. More than three absences
may result in loss of course credit.
2.
Basic Degree Students: Reading Reflection Journal. Careful and critical reading is
fundamental. To help facilitate this process, you are asked to engage the readings with written
reflections that ask questions and comment on the material in a more personal way, drawing out
concrete applications and theological implications. The reflections are an opportunity to
evaluate approaches and claims in the readings, examining some of the major themes vis-à-vis
your own theological judgments. The objective is to engage the reading critically, with a view
toward appraising its relevance, credibility, and appropriateness.
The journals should be typed in single space format and be about a page in length. Hard
copies of the assignment will be collected on the day of class each week.
A minimum of five (5) reading reflections are required throughout the course of the
semester. You may submit over five (in which case the five highest marks will be chosen
for averaging), but this is not required.
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Graduate Students: Class Presentation. At a class session, one Advanced Degree student, by
pre-arrangement with the instructor, will initiate discussion by referring to salient points in the
week’s reading assignments, mainly from the primary sources, raising two or three questions to
generate conversation over important issues/themes. The presentation should be approximately
12-15 minutes.
3. Book Assessment, approximately 8 pages in length, is due no later than October 18th in class.
Its primary purpose is to foster a critical engagement with a book chosen from the selection
provided (see handout) and assess it in terms of course materials and themes, and in light of your
own critical perspective.
4. A Final Integrative Paper (Basic Degree students: 10 pages / Graduate Students: 20-25
pages), due no later than December 13th. This paper should focus on a topic or issue germane to
the course and investigate, analyze, and appraise its implications in contemporary context. The
assignment is both integrative and research oriented; it offers the flexibility to research a topic or
issue that interests you, while also requiring you to assess the relevance of your research to some
of the materials read/discussed during the semester, drawing your own conclusions in the
process.
Paper assignments should be clearly organized, well-documented, critical in scope, substantive in
analysis and in assessing materials, careful in formulating evaluative claims, and prudent in
applications. Excellent papers will not simply ‘state’ but ‘show’ their case. Based upon an
informed consideration of what is at stake, excellent papers will provide reasons for claims and
back up these reasons with solid evidence. They may be selected and used anonymously for
assessment of Emmanuel College’s curriculums (and shall not affect your mark).
Papers should observe Emmanuel College academic regulations and policies, and note the
“Other Qualities Expected of Students” in “The T.S.T. Grading Scale Used at Emmanuel
College” for criteria for evaluation of assignments (found in 2018-19) edition of Handbook of
Information for Basic Degree Students). More information about writing papers can be found at
the web site “Writing at the University of Toronto” at www.utoronto.ca/writing/.
Specific Policies
Grading: Grades will follow the TST grading scheme. See TST web site.
Email: All email communications from students should be sent from a utoronto email
address. Email communications from other email addresses are not secure, and also they
cannot be readily identified as legitimate emails from students.
Emailed assignments will not be accepted except in rare cases with the prior permission
of the instructor.
Accessibility and disability policy: See the UT web site:
http://www.sa.utoronto.ca/details.php?wscid=4. It is your responsibility to register with
accessibility services. If you need any special accommodation, please let me know
before an assignment is due or in the first two weeks of the course.
Plagiarism. Students submitting written material in courses are expected to provide full
documentation for sources of both words and ideas in footnotes or endnotes. Direct
quotations should be placed within quotation marks. (If small changes are made in the
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quotation, they should be indicated by appropriate punctuation such as brackets and
ellipses, but the quotation still counts as a direct quotation.) Failure to document
borrowed material constitutes plagiarism, which is a serious breach of academic,
professional, and religious ethics. An instructor who discovers evidence of student
plagiarism is not permitted to deal with the situation individually but is required to report
it to his or her head of college or delegate according to the TST Basic Degree Handbook
and the Graduate Program Handbooks (linked from
http://www.tst.edu/academic/resources-forms/handbooks and the University of Toronto
Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters
http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=4871. A student who
plagiarizes in this course will be assumed to have read the document “Avoidance of
plagiarism in theological writing” published by the Graham Library of Trinity and
Wycliffe Colleges
https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/library_archives/theological_resources/theological_guide
s/avoiding_plagiarism.html
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--Tentative Course Schedule--
Week One, Sept. 13: Introduction to Basic Themes—no readings.
Week Two, Sept. 20: “Mission” and “Church” in Post-Christendom Context: Hope and Empire
Required Reading:
o Walter Brueggmann, ed., Hope for the World, 13-23, 35-38, 59-93, 115-35
o Marilyn J. Legge, “Negotiating Mission: A Canadian Stance,” in International
Review of Mission, Vol. 93 / No. 368 (January 2004), pp. 119-130 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o Douglas John Hall, Living on the Edge of Empire (online)
o UCC Document (2006)—Living Faithfully in the Midst of Empire (online)
Week Three, Sept. 27: Exploring Missiology through Disability
Required Reading:
o Benjamin T. Conner, Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness (Downers Grove, IL:
Intervarsity Press, 2018), chs. 1-2 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o Tom Reynolds, “Vulnerably Human within God’s Grace: Protestantism and
Disability,” in World Religions and Disability, eds., Darla Y Schumm and
Michael J Stoltzfus (2016, Baylor University Press), pp. 137-166
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Week Four, Oct. 4: Sources and Issues in Mission
Required Reading:
o Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Mission: An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon,
2002), pp. 17-71
o Walter Brueggmann, ed., Hope for the World, 95-105
o UCC, “Mending the World,” http://www.united-
church.ca/sites/default/files/resources/report_mending-the-world.pdf
Recommended Reading:
o David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011), chs.
1-4
o WCC, “Together Toward Life,”
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/commissions/mission-and-
evangelism/together-towards-life-mission-and-evangelism-in-changing-
landscapes
Week Five, Oct 11: Historical Legacies of Colonialism and Mission
Required Reading:
o Gustavo Gutierrez, from Witness: The Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas, “The
Indian: Person and Poor,” xi-xxii (online)
o Robert J. Miller, et. al., Discovering Indigenous Lands (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010), ch. 1 (online)
o Williams Jr., Robert A., Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization,
Introduction, chs. 8, 10 and 12 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o Marion Grau, Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society,
Subversion (London: T & T Clark, 2011), chs. 2-3
o John Webster Grant, The Moon of Wintertime, 175-189, 238-263.
o David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission, chs. 5-9
Week Six, Oct 18: Mission and Indigenous Peoples
Guest Speaker TBA
Required Reading:
o Native and Christian, ed. James Treat, chs. 3-7 (online)
o Mission and Power (Canadian Response to World Missionary Conference in
Edinburgh, 2010) (online)
o Lori Ransom and Mark MacDonald, “Systematic Evil and the Church: How does
a Church Repent?” Forum Mission 10/2014 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf
o UCC on Indigenous ministries: https://www.united-church.ca/community-
faith/being-community/indigenous-ministries
o Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,
http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=893
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READING WEEK: Oct. 22-25
Week Seven, Nov. 1: Reimagining Gospel, Culture and Justice in “World Christianity”
Guest Speaker TBA
Required Reading:
o Letty Russell, Just Hospitality, 1-51
o Andrew Kirk, What Is Mission?, 75-117 (online)
o Sara Miller, Christian Century, “Global Gospel,” 20-27 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission, ch. 12
o Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West
(Grand Rapids, MI: 2003), 1-66.
o Lalsamkima Pachuau, The Making of World Christianity: An Historical and
Theological Introduction (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018).
o Mercy Ama Oduyoye, “The Church of the Future, its Mission and Theology: A
View From Africa,” Theology Today (1996) Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 494 – 505
o Moonjang Lee, “Reading the Bible in a Non-Western Church: An Asian
Dimension,” in Mission in the 21st Century, eds. Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross
(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2008), pp. 148-156
Week Eight, Nov 8: Postcolonialism and Mission as Hospitality
Required Reading
o Letty Russell, Just Hospitality, 53-100
o Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF, “Mutuality in Mission: A No ‘Other’ Way,” Mission
Studies (2004) 21/2, pp. 250-70 (online)
o Joerg Rieger, “Theology and Mission Between Neocolonialism and
Postcolonialism,” Mission Studies, 21/2 (2004), pp. 201-26 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o Kwok Pui-lan, “Postcolonial Imagination: Historical, Dialogical, and Diasporic,”
in Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology, ch. 1.
o Marion Grau, Rethinking Mission, chs. 4-6
Week Nine, Nov. 15: Religious Pluralism and Mission—New Horizons
Required Reading:
o Cornille, (Im)possibility, chs. 1-2.
o Steven Bevans and Robert Schroeder, “‘We Were Gentle Among You’: Christian
Mission as Dialogue,” Australian EJournal of Theology (2006) Issue 7, pp. 1-27
(online)
Recommended Reading:
o S. Wesley Ariarajah, “Interreligious Dialogue and Mission in Protestant
Theology,” Modern Believing, 01/2010 (Volume 51, Issue 3), pp. 38 – 47.
o Joy Thomas, SVD, “Mission as Dialogue,” Mission Studies, Vol XIV-1 & 2, 27 &
28 (1997), pp. 228-37.
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Week Ten, Nov. 22: Interfaith Relations—Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist Perspectives
--Guest Speakers: TBA
Required Reading:
o Jonathan Magonet, “Jews in Dialogue: Towards Some Criteria of Discernment,”
in Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue, ed. Catherine Cornille
(Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009), pp. 3-25. (online)
o Asma Afsaruddin, “Discerning A Qur’anic Mandate for Mutually
Transformational Dialogue,” in Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious
Dialogue, pp. 101-121. (online)
o John Makransky, “Buddhist Perspectives in Truth in Other Religions: Past and
Present,” in Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue, pp. 205-230.
(online)
Recommended Reading:
o Reynolds, “Toward a Wider Hospitality,” Irish Theological Quarterly 75/2, pp.
175-187 (online)
Week Eleven, Nov. 29: Interfaith Relations
Required Reading:
o Cornille, (Im)possibility, chs. 3-4
o Kwok, pui-lan, “Beyond Pluralism: Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Religious
Difference,” in Postcolonial Imagination, ch. 8 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o Hill Fletcher, Monopoly On Salvation?: A Feminist Approach To Religious
Pluralism (New York: Continuum, 2005)
Week Twelve, Dec. 6: Mission as Partnership: Nurturing Peace and Reconciliation
Required Reading:
o Kirk, What Is Mission?, 143-234 (online)
Recommended Reading:
o TBA
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