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Ph.D. in Missiology
CORE COURSES: STUDY OF THE WORLD

Required Courses

DMS 921   MISSION COMMUNICATION - LANGUAGE AND MEANING
This course looks at mission communication through the prism of language and meaning. It teaches the basic features of language and meaning, and gives the student a systematic approach with which consciously to identify the components of language and meaning for the purpose of accurate and easy to understand Gospel communication.

DMS 922   MISSION COMMUNICATION: CULTURE AND CONTEXT
This course looks at mission communication through the prism of the basic nature of society, its cultural organization and the context in which that society operates. It teaches the basic features of society in its cultural context, and gives the student a systematic approach with which consciously to identify the components of culture and context for the purpose of accurate and easy to understand Gospel communication.

DMS 930   WORLD VIEW AND LIVING RELIGIONS
This course studies the various views of ultimate reality that undergird the living religions of the world which are in direct competition with Christianity for the hearts and minds of men. It provides approaches for communicating the Gospel to people of non-Christian living religions.

 

Elective Courses

DMS 941   MISSIONS: INDIA
An overview of the impact that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has had on the sub-continent of India since 74 A.D. The course will feature the special challenges of Hinduism, Buddhism, Yoga and Transcendentalism as well as the opportunities for Christian missions at the beginning of the 21st century.

DMS 945   RELIGIOUS STUDIES: WEST AFRICA
This course examines the theological, anthropological, sociological and historical dimensions of the Christian church in Africa with special reference to West Africa. It includes a comparative look at the place of traditional religion and Islam within the unique view of reality that continues to affect Christianity and other aspects of culture and world view.

DMS 949   AREA STUDY: CHINA
This course is designed to study the history and the contemporary state of the human condition in China with emphasis on the Christian mission and church in China.

DMS 956   BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
Examination of the following items: definition of the term globalization; examination of globalization in its various forms and intentions; the colonialism issue historically (economic) and currently (“importing” theology); Christianity’s claim to exclusiveness in meeting challenges from liberation ideologies, indigenous religions and self-theologizing trends.

 
 
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