CMIN 649 - Missional Movements in an Age of Complexity

3 hours
Utilizing the language of postmodernism, complexity, and chaos theory, students will explore the emerging reality that ministry and practice moving through the 21st century will look radically different from ministry in the 20th century. Futurists forecast a demise of attractional ministry, which will lead to a continued decline in worship attendance and the requisite shift of the church into a more decentralized posture of leadership and empowerment. Students in this course will investigate theories of complexity and emergence, assess the difference between robust and resilient systems, and study global missional movements to assess the points of consistency among those movements. GR