Creation Care & Christian Mission
13 January - 21 March 2025 (10 weeks)
Online
This course explores and examines the reality, theology and praxis of the missional mandate to care for creation. It provides participants with the opportunity to examine the biblical mandate for creation care, explore the key environmental issues facing humanity and the impact of these locally, regionally and globally, engage in in-depth biblical and theological reflection on these specific issues, and develop effective, contextually appropriate missional responses to them.
Students will review and engage with on-demand content each week (such as videos and reading material), ahead of a live, interactive seminar with the tutors, and other students, and the opportunity to dive deeper into the subject matter.
Two seminar sessions are available each week, you need attend only one - choose which session works best for you and your commitments: 8.00 pm on Monday evening or 10.00 am on Tuesday morning (UK time).
Who Is This Course For?
Christian leaders and mission workers with busy schedules seeking to develop a robust biblical mandate for creation care, and the practical skills to respond to this.
Learning Outcomes
Examination of the biblical mandate to care for creation
Understanding of the key environmental issues both locally, regionally and globally
Skills and resources to develop effective, contextually appropriate responses to these issues
Good To Know
Those accessing Advanced Short Courses will be provided with relevant reading materials and other information to enable their full participation in the course.
Advanced Short Course participants are not required to complete an assignment and will receive a certificate of participation on completion of the course.
Course Tutors
Dr Martin Hodson - BSc (Hons) Botany, and PhD Plant Sciences (Swansea University).
Dr Martin J Hodson is a plant scientist and environmental biologist, and a former Principal Lecturer, and now Visiting Researcher at Oxford Brookes University. He is also Associate Member of the Institute of Human Sciences at the University of Oxford. Martin is Principal Tutor of Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES). The tour scientist for the Hope for Planet Earth tours, he writes and speaks widely on environmental issues. Martin has over one hundred publications, mostly in international science journals. His books include Functional Biology of Plants (with John Bryant, 2012), and Green Reflections: Biblical inspiration for sustainable living (with Margot Hodson, 2021).
Revd Margot Hodson - BSc (Hons) Geography & PGCE (University of Bristol), Dip Mission (All Nations Christian College), Dip Religious Studies (University of Cambridge), BA (Hons) Theology (Oxford Brookes University).
Margot is Director of Theology and Education for the John Ray Initiative, an educational charity which seeks to resource Christians to respond to the environmental crisis. She is ordained in the Church of England with experience of local church ministry and chaplaincy.
In her teens Margot became passionate about the environment, and a committed Christian. These two strands have interwoven in her ministry and personal life. She is married to Martin J Hodson, an environmental biologist. They have published a number of books together including A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues (Abingdon: BRF, 2021)
Library Resources
All Nations has one of the finest mission libraries in the country with over 50,000 volumes, over 12,000 eBooks and a wide range of journals and audio visual material.
For remote access students, readings are supplied by College online and any additional reading you would like from our library catalogue may be accessed by emailing our librarian.
