General information

• Study points: 6.00
• Language: English
• Category: Lectures
• Duration: 52.0 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught every three years (2012-2013, 2015-2016, ...)
• POC: POC Theology and Religious Studies

Taught by

Dillen Annemie

Aims

• to gain insight into pastoral theology as an academic discipline (object, methods, historical development)
• to situate pastoral theology in the range of theological disciplines and understand its relation to the human sciences
• to make contact with the different sectors of pastoral theology: martyria (proclamation, communication), koinonia (building of faith community), liturgia (worship, prayer), diakonia (care, charity)
• to become acquainted with the bibliographical sources

Content

• Introduction into nature, methods and history of pastoral theology
• Exploring main fields of pastoral theology: martyria, koinonia, liturgia, diakonia
• Study of main topics in contemporary pastoral theology

Course Material

• J. WOODWARD & S. PATTISON, The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology, Malden MA-Oxford, 2000.
• For other material: see toledo (Bibliographical list)

Course activities

• Lectures with interaction with the students
• Tasks (contact with pastoral field, paper)
• Discussions
• Reading
• Excursion

Evaluation description

Examination type:
    oral with written preparation
When?: final examination during examination period
Evaluation type:
    Closed book
    Paper

Explanation

Students have to study their own course notes, the reader and the powerpoints.
We expect them to write a paper/report about their contact with the pastoral field - for more information, see Toledo, and to hand in this paper in a first version before 15 November. In class, the content of the papers will be discussed and the final version of the paper has to be handed in by the 5th of January.
 
Exam: 75 %
Paper: 25 %