Pre-requisites

CF501 Living in Christ

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Explain an adequate theoretical framework for personal and corporate worship and spirituality.

• Evaluate the multifaceted expressions of worship and spirituality in a variety of Christian traditions.

• Analyse the nature and role of the sacraments as an aspect of corporate worship.

• Adapt the church’s historic liturgical patterns and spiritual disciplines to the task of engaging in worship and spirituality in the contemporary church.

Unit Description

This unit seeks to lay a biblical, theological, and historical foundation that will inform the understanding of personal and corporate worship. Theological definitions of worship and spirituality will be established and a biblical theology of worship and spirituality in both Old and New Testaments will be developed. The distinctive “shape and narrative” of Christian worship will be carefully set forth, making it clear what is distinctive about this activity as compared with the worship practices found in other religions.

Historic patterns of worship and spirituality will be traced with a view to understanding them in their own time and place as well as how they might inform the worship and spirituality of today’s church.

Topics

• A theoretical framework (biblical, theological, and historical) for personal and corporate worship and spirituality.
• The multifaceted expressions of worship and spirituality in a variety of Christian traditions.
• The nature and role of the sacraments as an aspect of corporate worship.
• The church’s historic liturgical patterns and spiritual disciplines
• Engaging in worship and spirituality in the contemporary church.

Teaching Strategies

Teaching strategies include some or all of the following: lectures and tutorials; residential and weekend schools; class discussions; presentation of instructional material in the form of printed documentation, DVD, video and audio tape and online interaction.

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Unit offerings

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.