Study of the Word - Core Course Descriptions (Ph.D. in Missiology)

God’s mission of world reconciliation is traced through Old and New Testaments centering in the person and work of Christ in order to develop a Lutheran theology of mission. Contemporary theologies of mission—including Roman Catholic, Ecumenical and Evangelical—are examined in light of the theology of mission developed in the course.

DMS 905 OLD TESTAMENT PARADIGMS FOR MISSION

This course will look at the Old Testament from the mission point of view. Various Old Testament texts will be studied with a view to assisting the student in developing the tools to read, research, exegete and digest the Scriptures with mission eyes. The course will be geared to assist the student with the theological component of the Ph.D. in Missiology research and writing.

DMS 906 NEW TESTAMENT PARADIGMS FOR MISSION

This course will look at the New Testament from the mission point of view. Various mission paradigms or models will be developed through the study with a view to assisting the student in developing the tools to read, research, exegete and digest the Scripture with mission eyes. The course will be geared to assist students with the theological component of the Ph.D. in Missiology research and writing.

DMS 907 SCRIPTURE - CHRISTIANITY - CULTURE

This course opens up for the student a methodology of taking culture as well as basic Christianity very seriously in the interpretation of Scripture. It focuses on the study of biblical societies and their associated cultures, the communicator’s cultural framework, and the cultural context of the receptor as well as on the student’s own cultural context. The Bible itself is the primary textbook.

DMS 911 HISTORY OF MISSIONS

This course provides a foundational look at how the missio dei has moved across the boundaries of language and culture as it progresses through time and space. By analogy it is suggestive as to how the message of the missio can most effectively move across the boundaries of language and culture in the present and future. It highlights a variety of mission methods and leads the student to view these methods through the eye of the Word of God.

Elective Courses

DMS 912 MISSIONS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

This course proposes to examine the process of European and American Christian missions in the non-European and non-American worlds. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between missionaries and mission movements on the one hand and social and cultural trends on the other as well as to the theology of missions articulated in this period.

DMS 913 MISSIONS IN THE LC-MS

Through assigned readings and topics for discussion we shall consider “The Matrix of Missouri, a Unique Climate for Mission.” The course will trace the setting, early beginnings and development of mission in the Synod. Included will be the mission opportunities and issues which confront the Synod today.

DMS 916 REFORMATION IN MISSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

This course considers the Reformation of the 16th century from the standpoint of the mission of the Church. On the basis of writings from and about the Reformation, students examine what the religious leaders of the period had to say about reaching the unreached with the Gospel, what instruments they developed for propagating the faith and what they actually did to bring the Christian religion to those who did not yet know it.


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