Seminar: Communicating the Gospel in different contexts - Details

Seminar: Communicating the Gospel in different contexts - Details

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General information

Course name Seminar: Communicating the Gospel in different contexts
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 5
expected number of participants 12
Home institute Theologische Fakultät
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Thursday, 11.06.2026 14:15 - 15:45, Room: (Seminarraum C/D, Haus 25)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
Studiengänge (für) - Master "Christianity in Global Transformations" (Major & Minor)
- all other study programmes
SWS 2

Rooms and times

(Seminarraum C/D, Haus 25)
Thursday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (11x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

‘Communication of the Gospel’ is a core concept in German practical theology. It was coined in particular by Christian Grethlein, and he reflects the broad spectrum of Christian teaching, worship, and diaconal action as communication of the Gospel.
The seminar will give an introduction to this model of practical theology and illustrate it with current topics. We will reflect contexts and discuss examples of communicating the Gospel, like contemporary worship, influencers on TikTok, rite of passage ceremonies, messy church and others.

Literature: Christian Grethlein, An Introduction to Practical Theology: History, Theory, and the Communication of the Gospel in the Present (2016). Additional literature will be given in the seminar.