GIT Curriculum
Course Code | Coursework Title | Description |
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TGU6001 |
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY & SOCIETY |
This course will help you acquire a "big picture" perspective on the relationship between Christianity and society. Issues such as politics, economy, gender, and race will be extensively discussed with helpful writings from prominent scholars and activists. |
TGU6002 |
GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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This class aims to understand the transitions happening in the 21st century for the global world and people and pursue the possibility of inclusive but responsible global Christianity. |
TGU6003 |
INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE IN TODAY'S CONTEXT |
This class introduces the notion of contextual biblical interpretation in today's multidimensional and polyphonic world.
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TGU6004 |
CHRISTIANITY & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: SCIENCE, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS | The class aims to understand the transition happening in contemporary culture in the areas mainly like global economy, science & technology, sex & gender, inter-religious dialogue, environment, race & ethnicity, and so on. |
TGU6005 |
WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND NON-WESTERN THEOLOGIES | The aim is to introduce the concept of Southern Christiatnity and its theological significant in World Christianity, and to help studnets to realize theological changes happening in Christianity, through the reflections on non-Western theogies. |
TGU6006 |
JOHN AND EMPIRE | |
TGU6008 | GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: ECONOMY, TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, CONFLICTS | |
TGU6009 | ETHICS OF THE OTHER IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT | This course is designed to critically analyzse and evaluate the systematic marginalization and dehumanization happening in the contemporary world. |
TGU6010 | SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY MISSION STUDIES | The course primarily focuses on the notion of mission from the Biblical, Historical, and Theological viewpoint in the light of World Christianity and contemporary public issues like terrorism, migration, economic justice, corruption, sexism, racism… |
TGU6011 |
WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC ISSUES
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The course primarily inquires the practical relationship between World Christianity and contemporary public issues (Social and Political). |
TGU6012 |
SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION |
This course is designed to introduce diverse educational theories and explore some important church issues from the perspective of Christian education |
TGU6013 | BASIC SKILLS OF PASTORAL COUNSELLING | This course develop an understanding of the integration of biblical, theological, psychological structures operative in a whole person model of development and learn fundamental counseling skills for effective pastoral counseling using lectures, video materials, class presentations and group discussion. |
TGU6014 | ECUMENICAL MISSIOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY | |
TGU6015 |
CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY AND GLOBAL AGENDA
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It is a dialogue and conversation between contemporary theologies and global agenda including science, social science, politics and law, etc. |
TGU6016 | NEW PARADIGM OF THEOLOGY IN A GLOBAL AGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
The course will divide into three parts: Part I deals with methodologies and main themes of theology (God, Christ, Trinity), Part II with interreligious dialogue, and Part III with dialogue between theology/religion and science/ technology.
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TGU6017 | THEOLOGIES IN ASIA | |
TGU6018 | ISSUES IN GLOBAL PENTECOSTALISM | |
TGU6019 | WORLD CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIES: THE GLOBAL SOUTH CONTEXTS | |
TGU6020 | WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGIES | This course is designed to critically analyzse and evaluate the systematic marginalization and dehumanization happening in the contemporary world. |
TGU6021 | CHRISTOLOGIES IN GLOBAL SOUTH | This module is a critical examination of contextual Christo-logies in African and Asian contexts. The centre of gravity of contemporary Christianity has tilted from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere. The result is a radical disruption of Christianity through its encounters with local cultures and religious traditions which have inevitably led to the reconstruction of key beliefs and practices, sometimes at a fundamental level. |
TGU6022 | WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND WORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS | The 21st century is described as a century of inescapable encounter between World Christianity and living religious traditions. This encounter has radically shifted the context of mission, offering World Christianity new opportunities to understand itself as a religion among many world religions. This module is to understand current theories and methodologies in the study of World Christian encounter with living religions. |
TGU6023 | INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCOURSES ON PENTECOSTALISM: THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE | In the course of the module students will: Understand current theories and methodologies in Pentecostal scholarship on theology, philosophy and science; Gain in-depth knowledge about the Pentecostal discourses on theology, philosophy and science; Develop critical skills to analyze and reflect upon these debates. |
TGU6024 | WORLD CHRISTIANITY: THEMES AND DEVELOPMENTS | In the course of the module students will: Understand current theories and methodologies in the study of World Christianity aim in-depth knowledge about developments and critical discussions in World Christianity Develop critical thinking and formulate their own position on world Christianity. |
TGU6025 |
HISTORY OF KOREAN CHURCH AND ITS THOUGHTS
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This course is an introduction to the history of Korean Church. |
TGU6026 | THE PUBLIC CHURCH AND THE PUBLIC THEOLOGY | This module will interrogate the ways in which the global church interactions with social, multicultural, religious pluralism, political, economic, global security and globalization/deglobalisation. |
TGU6027 | THEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY | This seminar course studies theological methodology. Theological methodology systematically explores the foundations of theology. |
TGU6028 | POSTMODERN AND POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGIES | This course examines the flow of modern theology and aims to reconstruct the theology required in the present situation. |
TGU6029 | THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION | This course is designed to introduce diverse theories of Christian education and provide students with an opportunities to explore practices of Christian education. |
TGU6030 | TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION | This course is designed to provide theoretical foundations to the theory and practice of Christian education for students who are doing their field education in the church settings. |
TGU6031 |
COSMOPOLITAN THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ETHICS
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The class will take an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the intersecting disciplines of cosmopolitanism, theology and social ethics in the globalized societies. |
TGU6032 | HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | This course will consider the history, scope, and limits of human rights theory as it applies to a range of socio-ethical issues, including genocide, the moral status of refugees, gender, and global warming. |
TGU6033 | THE LIFE AND THOUGHTS OF REV. MINSOO BAI | Applying the historical and cultural perspectives, this course aims to overview the life and theology of Rev. Pai Min-Soo. |
TGU6034 | ETHICS AND THE GOOD LIFE | This course is an introduction to the content, language, methods, and concerns of Christian ethics. |
TGU6035 | SEMINARS IN THEOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE | These seminars will empower students to creatively, innovatively, methodologically and systematically develop their ideas grounded on the ongoing public theological and philosophical discourses on climate change and climate knowledge. |
TGU6036 | HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSION | This course is to know about the general history of Christianity and the history of Christian mission in Asia by reading original materials. |
TGU6037 | RELIGION AND SCIENCE | Through this process, participants will have a training in order to be religious leaders who are able to sharply discern the age of science and have an ability of conversation between science and religion. |
TGU6038 | PLANETARY PNEUMATOLOGIES IN GLOBAL CONTEXT | This module is a critical examination of fascinating theologies of the Holy Spirit emerging in the global context ranging from scientific informed to indigenous imaginations. |
TGU6039 | BIG HISTORY AND THE STORY OF GOD |
This course aims to retell the grand story of God with the creation in light of the exciting big history as presented by the combination of modern sciences.
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TGU6040 | NEW WAYS OF DOING THEOLOGY | This course explores various ways of doing theology in the 20th and 21st centuries, with special attention to different theological contexts, including the remarkable advancement of science and technology. |
TGU6041 | RACE AND ETHNICITY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND BEYOND | This course is designed to investigate the discourse of race and ethnicity in the area of biblical studies and beyond, which has grown exponentially over recent years. |
TGU6042 | LIBERATION THEOLOGY: LIBERATING THEOLOGY AND HUMANITY | This course will deal with some aspects of liberation theology, such as economic, political, climate change and feminist world view. The class will retrace the steps and look at the historical project of Liberation theology. |
TGU6043 | WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND POST-COLONIAL IMAGINATION | This course is to promote a different imagination on Christian theology and existing philosophical paradigm from a perspective that matter for the majority world, not for the few. It will analyze the power-knowledge structure that is embedded in the contemporary discussion in the studies of theology and of world Christianity; it also aims to deconstruct and to challenge the existing knowledge system from the postcolonial perspective and the indigenous experience, in promoting the justice and equality as the crucial value for theological studies, and beyond. |
TGU6044 | A HISTORY OF CHURCH’S SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT IN KOREA | This course encompasses central social issues in Korea, from the coming of Western missionaries to the age of covid-19 and churches' engagement in them from a historical perspective. |
TGU6045 | FUTURING PRACTICAL THEOLOGIES |
In this seminar, participants will explore methodological questions and frameworks for decolonial turns in contemporary practical theological imagination. Centering the inquiry on “Asia as method,” with referents to Asian US-American diasporic ponderings, the seminar invites exploration of clues, exemplars, and flashpoints in new interdisciplinary constructive practical theologies.
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TGU7001 | JOB AND THE LITERATURE OF FAITH AND DOUBT | |
TGU8001 |
MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EVANGELISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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The alignment of administrative disciplines and responsibilities, leadership skills and practices as well as effective management are critical for faithful ministry. This course will consider specific administrative disciplines to align and effectively empower dynamic and vital ministries. |
TGU8002 | THEOLOGY @ ECONOMICS OF WEALTH AND POVERTY | The issue of wealth, poverty, and Christian faith is as ancient as the New Testament and reaches farther back to the Old Testament. As frequently noted, Jesus’ teachings in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) demanded a kind of discipleship that barred any competing commitment to peoples or things other than himself, including money, property, and possessions. From the very beginnings of the Christian movement, how to deal with riches formed an important aspect of Christian discipleship and was thought to express “an essential articulation of our faith in God and of our love for our fellow humans.” |
TGU8003 | MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT | This course aims to examine the themes and issues of modern and contemporary ecumenical movements which have emerged and formed in the history of world Christianity since the nineteenth century. |
TGU8004 | LATIN AMERICAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY & ECONOMIC JUSTICE | This course introduces students to Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT), specially its relationship with economic justice. |
TGU8005 | CONVERTING: THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSFORMATION | This seminar will explore the nature of religious and spiritual transformation from an interdisciplinary perspective (integrating the disciplines of anthropology, history, phenomenology, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and theology. |
TGU8006 | PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING & LEARNING | This course is designed as an elective introductory course in Christian education and thus seeks to provide various instructional theories. |
TGU8007 |
CHRISTIAN ETHICS & MORAL DISCERNMENT IN THE CHURCHES
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TGU8008 | NARRATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND PASTORAL COUNSELING | |
TGU8009 |
COMPARATIVE STUDY – RELIGIONS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
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TGU8010 | MISSIONAL CHURCH | |
TGU8011 | INDIGENOUS ASIAN SPIRITUALITIES AND THE REMAKING OF THE CHRISTIAN RITE | |
TGU8012 | AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY AND CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT | |
TGU8013 | LIBERATION THEOLOGY IN CONTEXT | |
TGU8014 | LUKE-ACTS AND THE ROME EMPIRE | |
TGU8015 | THEOLOGY, ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND OVERCOMING POVERTY | |
TGU8016 |
INDIAN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF A VIABLE THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS |
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TGU8017 |
THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS: TEXTS, TRADITIONS AND CONTEXTS |
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TGU8018 |
POSTCOLONIAL BIBLICAL CRITICISM |
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TGU8019 |
JURGEN MOLTMAN'S THEOLOGY: A CRITICAL DIALOG FROM OUR RESPECTIVE CONTEXT |
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TGU8020 |
DECOLONIZING PAUL
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TGU8021 |
CONVERSION, CHANGE OF RELIGION, OR SHIFTING ALLEGIANCE |
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TGU8022 | INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE IN TODAY'S CONTEXT | This course is designed for students who wish to learn a global, ecumenical introduction to the Christian Bible and its interpretation across time and throughout various cultures. |
TGU8023 | WOMEN, THEOLOGY AND SOCIETY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY AND CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT | |
TGU8024 | SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | |
TGU8025 | INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERPRETIVE ISSUES FOR THE STUDY OF BIBLE AND THEOLOGY | |
TGU8026 | COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY: HINDU-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS | |
TGU8027 | BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND THE PRACTICE OF MINISTRY | |
TGU8028 | ETHICS OF THE OTHER | This course is designed to critically analyze and evaluate the systematic marginalization and dehumanization happening in the contemporary world. |
TGU8029 | MINJUNG THEOLOGY REVISITED: MINJUNG MOVEMENT AND BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS | |
TGU8030 | CONSTRUCTING CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF MISSION IN INDIA: AMBEDKAR'S PRAXIS | |
TGU8031 | HISTORY OF TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY & SPIRITUALITY FROM PATRISTIC TO POSTMODERN CONTEXTS | |
TGU8032 | REFORMATION HISTORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT | |
TGU8033 | RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY | |
TGU8034 | INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE IN PRACTICUM | |
TGU8035 | EDUCATIONAL MINISTRY FOR EMPOWERING CONGREGATION AND HER IDENTITY | |
TGU8036 | BIBLE IN KOREAN CONTEXTS: FROM MINJUNG TO MULTITUDE | The purpose of the course is to investigate the relationship between religion and postcolonialism in critical engagement with Korean Christianity in the (post)colonial era. |
TGU8037 | EDUCATIONAL MINISTRY FOR EMPOWERING CONGREGATION AND HER IDENTITY | |
TGU8038 | THEOLOGICAL THINKING AND WRITING | This course addresses the basics of theological thinking and writing in academic context. |
TGU8039 | SEX, MONEY, POWER, AND THE BIBLE | In this course we will explore how our readings of the Bible figure and reconfigure our understandings and practices of sex, money, and power in both helpful and harming ways. |
TGU8040 | WOMEN AND MISSION IN MODERN KOREA | The course delves into women's mission in the modern history of Korea. |
TGU8041 | WHITENESS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES | While the discourse of race, ethnicity, and blackness in the area of biblical studies has grown exponentially over recent years. We can observe a sheer lack of attention to the discourse of whiteness. The absence is far more pronounced in consideration of racial discourse among various minoritized groups. The main intent of this course is to address this lacuna. The overarching goal of this course is to decenter whiteness in biblical studies. |
TGU8042 | SYSTEMIC DYNAMICS IN FAMILIES, GROUPS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTION |
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TGU8043 | GENDER AND THEOLOGY: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE | The aim of this module will be to introduce students to some of the current issues within African Christianity. |
TGU8044 | RELIGION, CONFLICT AND PEACE: LIBERATIONIST AND INTERRELIGIOUS THEOLOGIES |
The goals of the module are as follows:
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TGU8045 | BIBLE & ECONOMY | While economic interest in the area of religious studies has grown exponentially over recent years, we can observe an urgent need to attend o the discourse of economy in biblical studies as well. The main intent of this course is to address this lacuna by engaging critically with the recent works in the field. |