MISSIOLOGY

HoD: Prof. Dr. Paulachan Kochappilly, CMI

Email: pkochappilly@dvk.in

1. Objective

1. To study, teach and promote biblical and ecclesial perspective on evangelizing mission.
2. To do missiology focusing on religious pluralism, cultural diversity, economic poverty and ecological concerns.
3. To develop a mission theology from the perspectives of subaltern groups, ecumenical fellowship and inter-faith relations.
4. To prepare personnel for teaching theology in seminaries and theological institutes and guiding the evangelization works in India especially in North India.
5. To promote study and research in the field of evangelization in the real contexts of Mission through exposure-immersion, experience-reflection and interpretation-action.
6. The First-Year classes shall be conducted at DVK, Bengaluru, the third semester at Samanvaya, Rishikesh and the final semester at Samanvaya, Bhopal.

2. Principal Courses

1. Biblical Foundations for Mission
2. Missionary Life of St Paul
3. Prophetic Mission
4. Developments of Evangelization through the Church Documents
5. History of Mission in India
6. Canon Law on Mission
7. Eastern Christian Perspective of Mission
8. Tools for Contextual Analysis of Mission
9. Mary as Model for Mission
10. Missionary Spirituality
11. Holy Spirit and Mission
12. Theology of Religions
13. Mysticism and Mission
14. Missiography: Prospects and Challenges
15. Models of Missions

3. Optional Courses

1. Asian face of Jesus

2. Contemporary Questions in Indian Mission

3. Theology of Inculturation and Mission

4. Indian Christian Theology and Mission

5. Celebration as Mission

6. Missionary Catechetics

7. Liberation Theologies

8. Feminist Theology

9. New Trends in Ecumenism

10. Mission in the Asian Context

11. Indian Christian Art and Spirituality

12. Media and Mission

13. A Christian Response to Globalization and Villagism

4. Seminars

1. Conversion in the Multi-Religious Context

2. Family the Primary Field of Mission

3. Ashram Way of Life in Doing Mission

4. Local Church in the Multi-Religious Context

Tutorials

1. Pilgrimage to Different Centres of Religions

2. Live-in Experience of Christian and Hindu Ashrams

3. Exposures to the Socio-Religious Context of North India