Examination of the crucial transition from a Modern to Postmodern worldview, and how strategies for sharing the Christian faith can adopt in order to contextualize the gospel in the new paradigm. Students will be challenged to creatively imagine new forms of evangelism within the context of religious pluralism, cultural relativism and nihilistic outlooks of the future.
Students will learn the history and key terms related to the transition of epistemological tenets from Modern to Postmodern. In addition, students will be exposed to a diversity of postmodern thinkers and leaders who are seeking to share their faith in context and learn the barriers and opportunities other leaders are facing.
Students will start with the biblical foundation of the Great Commission and how the early church shared their faith in the first century Mediterranean world in Pre-Modern context.
This course is designed to drive students towards strategic outward attempts in evangelism techniques in contrast to insular thinking.
Given the diversity of contexts and how worldviews have evolved in different parts of the world, students will engage their own context for the relevance of Postmodern techniques needed or not.
This course will survey modern cultural worldviews to see where in the world different cultures land on the spectrum of Pre-modern, Modern and Postmodern thinking.
This course is about the activity of ‘sharing’ the Christian faith, not just the theology behind why Christians should share their faith.
Assignments for this course will be designed for students to practice their strategic attempts and report on their experience.
