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The Vocation of Theological Teachers
Goals:
This two-year consultation considered the vocation of the theological faculty member, with particular emphasis on the pivotal choices and stages of development that shape the course of an individual’s career. The consultation sought to understand more fully the factors that contribute to fulfillment and productivity in teaching, research and institutional leadership by taking a longer term, developmental approach to the scholar’s sense of vocation. Since these factors are social as well as personal, the consultation placed personal motives and interests within the web of social relationships and institutional responsibilities that over time influence an individual’s vocation.
Purposes:
• to explore and understand more fully the overarching goals by which the scholar measures longer term achievement and the social purposes to which the scholar believes his or her work contributes
• to identify the norms, audiences, and responsibilities of specifically theological scholarship that distinctively influence careers in this field of higher education
• to identify among the complex, cumulative set of choices involved in a teacher's career, those decisions concerning academic goals and social purposes that are likely to have the largest cumulative impact on the theological teacher's vocational development
• to consider the ways in which the institutional priorities of theological schools interact with the diversity of academic careers and the different stages of the vocational process, including not only issues traditionally identified with faculty assessment and academic freedom but also the more general interaction between individual vocational goals and institutional educational purposes
Conveners:
Katarina Schuth, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity
W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Divinity School
Wabash Staff Facilitator:
Lucinda Huffaker
Participants:
Phyllis Airhart, Emmanuel College of Victoria University
Ron Anderson, Christian Theological Seminary
Kathy Black, Claremont School of Theology
Don Browning, University of Chicago Divinity School
J. Michael Byron, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity
Katherine Hayes, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Philip Krey, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Kevin Madigan, Harvard Divinity School
Tom Massaro, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Sara Myers, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Kevin O’Neil, Washington Theological Union, DC
Robert Priest, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Hal Sanks, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Raymond Williams, Wabash College, Wabash Center
Barbara Brown Zikmund, Doshisha University of Kyoto, Japan
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