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Detalles del Curso: Visions for the Ideal City (MATUL)
| Idioma de este formulario | English (USA) |
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| Nombre del Curso | Visions for the Ideal City (MATUL) |
| Tipo de Curso | Curso individual |
| Número de referencia | TUL500 |
| Descripción | This 15-week online course builds a Biblical theology overview that connects the motif of the Kingdom of God to issues of poverty, oppression, community development and church growth in urban poor communities. This is the M.A. in Transformational Urban Leadership (MATUL) program’s “lead” course, setting the stage for thinking Biblically about interventions within slum communities. It features extensive reading, community involvement, writing, and presentation – all oriented toward the acquisition of a theological “frame” for subsequent study. Theology: Foundational to applying the scriptures to the issues of the urban poor is an understanding of the panorama of the scriptures, its main books and themes. However, most Bible Surveys are written from Western perspectives that deal with only the spiritual but ignore the breadth of the relationship of the Kingdom of God to the social, economic and political aspects of life. This course is designed to touch on most of the books of the Bible, their themes and from them relate to themes the urban poor deal with. Development Theories and Issues: Parallel to this theological panorama, the themes (readings of the scriptures from the perspective of the poor, urbanization, migration, oppression, community development, land etc.) are applied to current community development philosophies. Praxis: Praxis is a theological term for doing theology in action. The first step is engagement then entering into conversation. The action might cause the engagement or be a result of all the conversation. This whole degree is built around a concept of Transformational Conversations – conversations that link the “God conversation” and the “city conversation”. This course could anchor these at upper level urban and development theories and city leadership conversations, but instead seeks to engage the students mostly with common people in the neighborhood. Each week students will engage the local community, seeking an understanding from their stories of their cultural perspective on the week’s theme. They will seek to communicate the stories of the scripture around that theme as part of a process of dialogical communication into a pre- or post-Christian context. |
| Palabras clave | Theology Urban poor Urban mission Urban Theology Jubilee Transformation |
| Disponible en el Idioma | English (USA) |
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| Categoría y Sub-categoría | Bible Teaching and Training / Old Testament; Bible Teaching and Training / New Testament; Bible Teaching and Training / Theology; Personal Life and Holiness / Integrating Faith, Life and Work |
| Residencial/No-residencial | No-residencial |
| A tiempo completo o parcial | A tiempo completo |
| Nivel | Introductory |
| Categoría de Costo | From US$1,000 to less than US$10,000 |
| Costo Actual | $540-$1,350 USD (depending on student's national location) |
| Becas disponibles | |
| Largo actual | 15 weeks |
| Promedio de horas de estudio por semana | 10 |
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| Porcentaje del tiempo llevado en la enseñanza formal (p.ej. clases, libros programados, etc.) | |
| Porcentaje del tiempo llevado en la enseñanza no-informal en habilidades prácticas (p.ej. aprendizaje en la obra, práctica supervisada, etc.) | |
| Porcentaje del tiempo llevado en la enseñanza informal espontánea, sin structura (p.ej. tiempos de oración, trabajo en equipo) | |
| Promedio de alumnos que toma esta clase por año (o, si es un curso nuevo, el número de alumnos que podrán tomarla) | 0 |
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| Curso acreditado por | Other Accreditation (see below) |
| Organización que acredita | Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) |
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