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TMMC2217: Developing Preaching

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Type Open
Level 2
Credits 10
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap None.
Location Durham
Department Theology, Ministry and Mission

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • TMMC2061 Developing Preaching in the Contemporary World

Aims

  • To give students some critical insights into the theology, theory and practice of preaching.
  • To enable students to deploy and evaluate a range of interpretive approaches to Scripture in preaching.
  • To develop further students skills and knowledge to sustain them as reflective practitioners in this area of public ministry.

Content

  • This module provides opportunities to engage critically with key aspects of preaching and is likely to include:
  • the theology and theory of preaching
  • different models and forms of preaching and how to prepare
  • critical approaches to engaging with Scripture and doctrine
  • further rhetorical strategies
  • practical skills of delivery
  • handling difficult texts

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • [SSK 3]
  • Demonstrate a critical understanding and analysis of some models of, and approaches to, preaching.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • [SSS 1, 2, 3]
  • Deploy a number of interpretative approaches to Scripture in preaching and critically reflect on their effectiveness.
  • Initiate and develop a strategy to sustain ongoing reflective engagement with Scripture and theology that supports a preaching ministry in the church.

Key Skills:

  • [KS 1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Identify, gather and evaluate source materials for a range of purposes.
  • Undertake a critical analysis of information and arguments, communicating these effectively to a specific audience and context.
  • Take responsibility for a task that involves independent inquiry; the management of time, resources and use of IT; meeting deadlines, evaluating the task and learning from it. Plan their own personal and professional development.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Lectures and personal study
  • Practical Skill assessment and Written Theological Reflection

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures81.75 hours16 
Personal Study84 
Total100 

Summative Assessment

Component: Practical SkillComponent Weighting: 40%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Practical Skill - Preaching10 minutes100 
Component: Written Theological ReflectionComponent Weighting: 60%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written Theological Reflection1500 words100 

Formative Assessment

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