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| UL705 |
TUL530 |
Urban Poor Church Leadership |
35 |
5 |
40 |
40 |
120 |
| This course is the foundational course introducing themes in the degree, utilising a story-telling |
| theological approach. It develops the theme of the Kingdom of God as a basis for practical experiences |
| in entering poor communities and developing holistic poor peoples' churches. Utilising entrance and |
| evangelism models from Jesus, Paul, Hiebert, Brewster, issues of incarnation, identification, and |
| womens' and family issues in incarnation are examined. Churchplanting models from Hesselgrave, |
| Stefan, Grigg develop elements of proclamation, power evangelism, mass evangelism, discipleship of |
| the poor and lead to practical processes of cell group, small group, fellowship and structured church |
| development in theory and in practical work assignments. Issues of church-based development among |
| the poor are introduced, beginning with the development of deacons and elders and patterns of |
| leadership training based on the role of the Holy Spirit and the five leadership giftings. These are |
| related back to sociological (Gerlach & Hine) and community organisation (Alinsky et al) models of |
| leadership emergence. The theology of the Kingdom of God is related to practical aspects of pastoral |
| issues in ministering among the urban poor: cooperative economics, land rights, poverty, justice, |
| oppression, suffering, cash flows, etc. |
| UL805 |
TUL620 |
Leadership in Urban Movements |
35 |
5 |
40 |
40 |
120 |
| People credited with competency in this course will be able to critically analyze processes of spiritual, |
| religious, political and socio-economic leadership of movements among the urban poor and citywide |
| The course includes analysis of the issues in incarnational leadership; mission team building; short term |
| team leadership; leadership in multiple phases of life; development of apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic |
| and diaconal leadership in emerging churches; contrast of First World managerial styles and |
| consensus based leadership styles; identification and development of personal spiritual leadership |
| gifts; relationship of poverty to leadership emergence; women and family issues in leadership; |
| networking and partnership. These are analysed in relationship to multiple ethnic styles of leadership |
| These are in the context of church growth theories, and anthropological studies on charisma (Weberian |
| school), Friere's educational theses, Alinsky et al on community organisation, the implications of |
| Maslow et al on hierarchies of needs etc. These theories will be examined from urban poor leaders case |
| studies. Anthropological church growth elements will include processes of multiplying ministries through |
| the training of spiritually gifted believers among the poor; development of apostolic and prophetic |
| leadership; cell multiplication; web movements, people movements; revival movements; patterns of |
| urban poor church growth; cultural roles and movements, inside and outside leadership styles; diffusion |
| of innovations; processes of catalysing indigenous leadership and theologising styles; momentum, |
| events planning, and changes in leadership style at each phase. |
| A foundational course on the theology of the Kingdom of God as it relates to the city, in areas of |
| poverty, justice, land rights, community; reconciliation, work…. Processes in bringing about citywide |
| spiritual and social change. Case studies of the latest developments in bringing about unity and prayer |
| movements in global cities. Students engage in serving a citywide process of research or consultation. |
| An introduction to basic theories that relate to analysis of poverty and church growth, within urban |
| anthropology, economics, geography and sociology including de Soto, culture of poverty, latest spatial |
| theories in geography. Understanding the urban environment; a theology of the city; history of the |
| city; urbanisation, urbanism, transitions to postmodern urban culture; urban economics and upper and |
| lower circuit theories; urban anthropological theories. Examination of theory and models from multiple |
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