Overview
Lecturer
Razvan Brudiu
Seminar tutor
Razvan Brudiu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Theology
Field of study
Pastoral Orthodox Theology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, exemplification, conversation, debate, PowerPoint presentation, video-projections.
Entry requirements
n/a
Aims
to know, define and understand the Church’s missionary work;
to understand the most important missionary aspects;
to explain the mission’s effects upon the Church;
to identify and use the specific bibliographic and patristic resources;
to know and can apply the concept of missionary work.
Course contents
1. The Orthodox Missiology as Theological Discipline. Discipline’s History and Literature. The Missionary Terminology, 2. Theological Grounds of the Mission, 3. Trinity and Mission, 4. Church’s Mission and Its Aspects: the Evangelizing or the Preaching of the Gospel, 5. The Witness. The Deacon and the Ministration, 6. The Pastoration, 7. The Mission’s Exigencies: The Preaching of the Gospel, 8. Transmitting the Right Faith: the Word of Truth, Conveying the Tradition, 9. Indigenizing and Cultural Identity, 10. The World and Its Situation. The Good News to the Poor, 11. The Mission as Building Up the “Body”- the Church. Mission and Liturgy, 12. The Mission and the Parish’s Community, 13. The Laymen’s Apostolate. The Quality of the Christians’ Life, 14. Liturgy after Liturgy.
Learning outcomes
To take into account all elements involved (linguistic, socio-cultural, political, religious, etc.), to interpret both in a synchronous and diachronic mode, critical reading skills on bibliographic sources and ability to initiate own research, interpretation and critical evaluation of Orthodox Missiology in different contexts.
Assessment
Written paper-interpretative essay – 10%. Frontal evaluation / Oral exam: 90%
Recommended reading
Tragedia omului în cultura modernă
Pavel C. Constantin
Anastasia Publishing House, București, 1997 · x
Liturghia după Liturghie. O tipologie a misiunii apostolice și mărturiei creștine azi
Ion Bria
Athena Publishing House, București, 1996 · x
Îndrumări misionare
Dumitru Radu
Institutul Biblic de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române Publishing House, București, 1986 · x
Mergi în pace! Perspective ortodoxe în misiune
Ion Bria
Reîntregirea Publishing House, Alba Iulia, 2015 · x
Religie, modernitate și postmodernitate
Nicolae Achimescu
Trinitas Publishing House, București, 2013 · x