Course aims:

to know and understand the mission’s exigencies;
to apply theories and methods to the missionary practical realities;
to know and understand the concept of Trinity and missions;
to explain the mission’s effects upon the Church;
to define and apply the concept of missionary exigency from a theoretical standing point.

Course Entry Requirements:

n/a

Course contents:

1. Introductory Notions: Church, Heresy, Schism, Sect, 2. Causes of Sects’ Emergence (I), 3.Causes of Sects’ Emergence (II), 4. Methods of Combating the Sects (I), 5. Methods of Combating the Sects (II), 6. The Baptism (I), 7. The Baptism (II), 8. The Adventism (I), 9. The Adventism (II), 10. The Pentecostalism (I), 11. The Pentecostalism (II), 12. The Christians’ Cult According to the Gospel (I), 13. The Christians’ Cult According to the Gospel (II), 14. The Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, exemplification, conversation, debate, PowerPoint presentation, video-projections.

Learning outcomes:

critical, selective and systematic attitude towards missiological information; ability of applying the principles for understanding a patristic document in an appropriate manner, respectively, to take into account all elements involved (linguistic, socio-cultural, religious).

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper-interpretative essay – 30%. Frontal evaluation / Oral exam: 70%

Recommended reading:

Petre I. David, Invazia sectelor în România, Europolis Publishing House, Constanța, 2000, x.
Gheorghe Petraru, Dimensiunea penitențială și euharistică a vieții creștine, Doxologia Publishing House, Iași, 2015, x.
Gheorghe Vlăduțescu, Ereziile Evului Mediu creștin, Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, București, 1974, x.
David Pestroiu, Martorii lui Iehova, Reîntregirea Publishing House, Alba Iulia, 2013, x.
Jean Vernette, Les Sectes et l'Eglise catholique. Le document romain, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1993, x.