A survey of the origins of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in its social, cultural, and theological contexts. The course also examines and evaluates various continuities and changes in C&MA thought and practice.

Engages in reflection on the church’s identity, nature, and vocation based on Paul’s theology of the Christian community and the Alliance’s conviction concerning the deeper life (holiness) and mission. We will explore biblically and theologically how the church’s life and ministry should reflect our identity as the holy and missional people of God. We will discover how we are called by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to participate in God’s mission in and to the world from an Alliance perspective. Participants will be guided in developing a missional ecclesiology for their own ministry context.

Alliance spirituality is rooted in our experience of the triune God reflected on through the lens of the Four-Fold Gospel (Christ our Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King). It is a cruciform spirituality that touches all of life. We will examine what Alliance spirituality looks by drawing the Four-Fold Gospel into conversation with contemporary trinitarian thought, and the biblical narrative. Participants will discover how a cruciform spirituality invites us by God’s grace to become Christ-Centered, Spirit-empowered and mission-focused.