TUL500 Biblical Theology of Development

MA in Transformational Urban Leadership

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Bible Readings

Luke 1-14

The Kingdom of God

The Kingdom Model: Goals of Development

• Unpacking the New Testament Vision of the Future (Bellingham)
• Kingdom envisioning of the post-post-modern city (Grigg)
• Defintions of the Kingdom (Melinda Nelson)
• What is the Kingdom of God? presentation
• Model: Urbanization and the Kingdom of God
• The Kingdom of God and the Church (to be edited)

Models of Development: UN Millenial Goals

• Millenial Goals (ppt)
• State of the World. (2011). Millenial Goals
• Debate: Goals of Transformation: The Kingdom of God Defines the Goalsand Style of Development not Millenial Goals?
  • DebateScoring Rubric
  • Parliamentary Debate
  • NPDA Debate Scale

Action

Exploring parables of the community:
Conversation with folks in your community on their vision of the future. See if you can connect it to Jesus teaching on the Kingdom of God.

Readings

Bellingham, Rob,(1987) Kingdom. A Biblical Approach to Social Transformation. unpublished. A summary

Grigg, V. (2009). Spirit, Kingdom and Postmodern City.In The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City: Transformative Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Lexington, KY, Emeth Press and Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation. Chap 8.

Myers, B. (2003). Kingdom Mission. Walking with the Poor. Monrovia, MARC. Ch 2

Glasser, Jesus and the Kingdom: His Parabolic Teaching.  Kingdom and Mission, NT, chap 2 pp 169-180

Sachs, J. D. (2005). Investing in Development. London, Earthscan.