This course provides a critical introduction to how in post-modernity the self and identity are understood through membership in groups and communication.
This course is beneficial for many applications but is particularly useful to equip students to engage and appropriate insights retrieved from the study of selfhood, groupness, and identity in postmodernity for one’s missional context.
Understanding the postmodern milieu, particularly the interrelation of selfhood, groupness, and identity, is necessary for Christians to effectively engage their missional context.
As Scripture narrates the history of Triune God culminating in Jesus Christ, wherein Christ calls His followers to live according to God's promises, it informs how Christians should under the self, identity and their participation in groups.
The Missio Dei informs who one is becoming in Christ and therefore has implications for understanding selfhood, identity and groupness.
Context provides those specific elements, which are needed to understand how selfhood, identity and groupness are shaped in specific.
This course is especially intercultural, as it develops selfhood and identity through concrete exchange between groups.
The scope of this course is for the student to reflect on selfhood, identity, and groupness in order to develop the critical analytical skills for use in their particular missional context.
The course uses the student's experience and unique needs as the entry point of study to build on his or her understanding through immersive reflection and assignments in order to cultivate analytical skills and to increase competent appropriation.
