Human socities impact their environment in many ways, from agriculture to patterns of consumption and waste disposal. In this course, students will analyse problems of sustainability and apply ecotheological principles to develop ideas on more sustainable communities.
An understanding of sustainability issues requires students to become aware of not only scientific and technical issues, but develop biblical ideas of limits, biblical anthropology, the value of the non-human, and a biblical theology of the good life.
Human ignorance, hubris and sin means that our societies are unsustainable. Our mission needs to bring all these things to repentance and transformation.
This course develops a biblical perspective of what is required for a sustainable community, including biblical views on standards of living and our relationship to creation.
Students will learn that mission involves both the redeeming of human relationships in society, but also our relationship to the creation.
This course will allow students to contextualise mission for particular sustainability issues.
Students will be equipped to think about how different cultures engage in community and how making this more sustainable forms part of mission.
Students will be able to integrate ideas of sustainable community into missional practice.
Students will have to rethink their ideas of the ideal society and the good life.
