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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 -- tom.reynolds@utoronto.ca

TA: Gina Bae -- ginajy.bae@mail.utoronto.ca

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.

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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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________. Biblical Perspectives on Evangelism: Living in a Three-Storied Universe. Nashville:

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Experience. Nairobi: Oxford, 1989.

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World Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006.

Phan, Peter. Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue.

Maryknoll: Orbis, 2004.

______. In Our Own Tongues: Perspectives from Asia on Mission and Inculturation. Maryknoll:

Orbis, 2003.

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Knox Press, 2005.

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