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"'The Long Obedience...': Biblical Reflections on the Vocation of Administrative Service"
Senior, Donald
The Seminary Journal 2 (Fall 1998)
1998
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"Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching as Vocation"
Newman, Elizabeth
in Professing in the Postmodern Academy : Faculty and the Future of Church-related Colleges (Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, 2002), 131-148
2002
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"Collegiality as a Moral and Ethical Practice"
Copeland, M. Shawn
in Practice What You Preach (Franklin, WI: Sheed & Ward, 1999): 315-333
1999
From the Publisher
Calling for accountability, Practice What You Preach discusses ethical questions that arise in congregations and pastoral leadership. Formation of pastors, empowering leaders, resolving power struggles between clergy and laity--these and other critical pastoral issues are addressed by an ecumenical group of contributors. Divided into four parts: the way the churches train their pastors; the way their pastors live; the way communities...
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"Critical Insight: Enhancing Experiential Knowledge in Theological Education"
Davies, Susan E.
Union Seminary Quarterly Review 47, no. 3-4 (1993): 53-70
1993
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"Diversity in Theological Education - a folio"
Foster, Charles, Julia M Speller and Jack Seymour
Theological Education 38, no. 2 (2002): 15-37, 56-70
2002
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"Diversity in Theological Education"
Foster, Charles R.
Theological Education 38, no. 2 (2002): 15-37
2002
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"Education Marked with the Sign of the Cross"
Buckley, Michael J.
America 163, no. 5 (1990): 100-103
1990
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"Emerging Issues and Theological Education"
Chopp, Rebecca S.
Theological Education 26, no. 2 (1990): 106-124
1990
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"Evaluating an Uncertain Craft: Faculty Assessment and Theological Education"
Boys, Mary C.
Theological Education 31, no. 2 (1995): 37-50
1995
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"Feet Partly of Iron and Partly of Clay: Pedagogy and the Curriculum of Theological Education"
Cram, Ronald H. and Stanley P. Saunders
Theological Education 28, no. 2 (1992): 21-50
1992
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"For What Should Theological Colleges Educate? A Systematic Investigation of Ministry Education Perceptions and Priorities"
Dowson, Martin and Dennis M. McInerney
Review of Religious Research 46, no. 4 (2005): 403-421
2005
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"Formed for Ministry: A Program in Spiritual Formation"
Jones, L. Gregory, and Willie James Jennings
Christian Century (Feb 2-9, 2000): 124-128
2000
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"Getting Technical: Information Technology in Seminaries"
Williams, Raymond B.
Christian Century (Feb 7-14, 2001): 14-15
2001
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Being Black Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies
Westfield, Nancy Lynne, ed.
Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN
2008
From the Publisher
A group of eminent African American scholars of religoius and theological studies examines the problems and prospects of Black scholarhip in the theological academy. They assess the role that prominent African American scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of religion and theology, the need for a more thorough-going incorporation of the fruits of black scholarship into the mainstream of the academic study...
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Reshaping Religious Education: Conversations on Contemporary Practice
Harris, Maria and Gabriel Moran
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1998
From the Publisher
In this profound and provocative book, acclaimed authors Maria Harris and Gabriel Moran challenge the religious education community to risk change. Writing in the form of a give-and-take conversation, a conversation that includes Jewish educator Sherry Blumberg and European educator Friedrich Schweitzer: the authors incorporate ecumenical and international perspectives into their analysis of the state of contemporary religious...
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Issues in Theological Education
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"Pedagogical Expectations of Hispanic Americans: Insights for Leadership Training"
Wilson, Norman G.
Christian Education Journal 1NS, no. 1 (1997): 65-81
1997
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"Professing the Faith: Reflections on a Vocation"
Bondi, Roberta, Beverly R. Gaventa, S. Mark Heim, Miroslav Volf, and William H. Willimon
Christian Century (Feb 7-14, 1996): 128-137
1996
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"Realities, Visions, and Promises of a Multicultural Future"
Moore, Mary Elizabeth, Boyung Lee, Katherine Turpin, Ralph Casas, Lynn Bridgers and Veronica Miles
Religious Education 99, no. 3 (2004): 287-315
2004
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"Reshaping Religious and Theological Education in the 90's: Toward a Critical Pluralism"
Johnson, Susanne
Religious Education 88, no. 3 (1993): 335-349
1993
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"Seminaries and the Ecology of Faith: An Interview with Daniel Aleshire"
Aleshire, Daniel O.
Christian Century (Feb 3-10, 1999): 110-123
1999
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"Teaching and Learning Issues on Instructional Technology and Theological Education"
Cormode, Scott
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"Teaching for Belief: Power and Pedagogical Practice"
Foster, Charles R.
Religious Education 92, no. 2 (1997): 270-284
1997
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"Teaching Theology in Context"
Johnson, Luke T., and Charlotte McDaniel
Christian Century (Feb 2-9, 2000): 118-122
2000
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"Teaching Theology Students Who Don't Know Aristotle from Aquinas"
McMurtrie, Beth
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2000
2000
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"The Catholic Internet: Seminary Technologies Impacting the Teaching and Learning Environment of the Church"
Mahfood, Sebastian, Vic Klimoski, Beverly Lane, and Daniel Harris
Seminary Journal 9, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 10-20
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"The Faculty Members of the Future: How Are They Being Shaped?"
Wheeler, Barbara G.
Christian Century (Feb 4-11, 1998): 106-149
1998
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"The Keystone Project and the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in our Seminaries"
Walsh, Jim
Seminary Journal 6, no. 1 (2000): 8-17
2000
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"The New Testament and the Examined Life: Thoughts on Teaching"
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Christian Century (Feb 1-8, 1995): 108-115
1995
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"The Spirituality of the Religious Educator"
Groome, Thomas H.
Religious Education 83, no. 1 (1998): 9-20
1988
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"Theological Distance Education: A Librarian's Perspective"
Harmeyer, Dave
Journal of Religious and Theological Information 3, no. 3/4 (2001): 69-86
2001
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"Theological Education and Ministerial Formation: Coming to Terms with the Hidden Curriculum"
Guider, Margaret E.
Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry 15 (1994): 133-143
1994
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"Theological Education and Scholarship as Struggle: The Life of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Profession"
Segovia, Fernando F.
Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 2, no. 2 (1994): 2-25
1994
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"Theological Education by Conversation: Particularity and Pluralism"
Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino
Theological Education 33, no. 1 (1996): 31-47
1996
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"Theology and Education in Dialogue: The Search for a Metaphor"
Giles, Greg
Christian Education Journal 15, no. 2 (1995): 9-17
1995
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"Using Computers in Theological Education: Rules of Thumb"
Cormode, Scott
Theological Education 36, no. 1 (1999): 101-115
1999
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"Why Seminaries Don't Change"
Farley, Edward
Christian Century (Feb 5-12, 1997): 133-143
1997
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A Handbook on Legal Issues in Theological Field Education
Fox, Susan E. and Judith Trott Guy, editors
Presbyterian Theological Field Educators, Richmond, VA
2000
From the Publisher
When you think about legal issues and field education, how do you feel?
What thoughts come to mind when you think of culture in this context?
What stories and teachings from our faith tradition can inform the interface between legal issues and field education?
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A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation
Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth, S. Steve Kang , Gary A. Parrett
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2004
From the Publisher
A Many Colored Kingdom explores Christian formation and teaching in the church, with a particular focus on intercultural and interethnic relationships.
Well qualified to speak on issues of diversity, the authors describe relevant aspects of their own personal journeys, presented in compelling narrative form. They go on to identify key issues emerging from their Scripture studies and teaching experiences. A final chapter...
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A Preface to Theology
Gilpin, W. Clark
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
1996
From the Publisher
At a time of widespread perplexity about the social role of humanistic scholarship, few disciplines are as anxious about their nature and purposes as academic theology. In this important work, W. Clark Gilpin, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, proposes that American theological scholarship become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society. Gilpin approaches this...
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A Profile of Contemporary Seminarians Revisited
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Seminary Journal vol. 9, no. 1, 2003
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Academic Leadership: A Study of Chief Academic Officers in Theological Schools
McLean, Jeanne P.
St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, MN
1998
From the Publisher
The monographs collected in this volume are based on research into the role of chief academic officers in North American theological schools.
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Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education
Stackhouse, Max L.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1988
From the Publisher
Apologia is about contemporary theological education--its current state and its future. While many current trends in seminaries and departments of theology bring important new insights to the study of religion, says Max Stackhouse they also erode-- sometimes unwittingly--the capacity to speak of God, truth, and justice with warranted confidence. Theology is thereby undermined in all arenas--not only in academia, but in the...
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Basics of Teaching for Christians: Preparation, Instruction, Evaluation
Pazmio, Robert W.
Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI
1998
From the Publisher
Helps educators regain focus in their teaching by offering a concise guide to their craft's essential elements: preparation, instruction, and evaluation.
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Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Carroll, Jackson W., Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the United States today. The authors' goal is to understand the ways in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating...
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Between Athens and Berlin: The Theological Education Debate
Kelsey, David H.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1993
From the Publisher
Kelsey argues that the central differences between various voices in theological education emerge most clearly when viewed in the light of "Athens, " which views education as paideia, the goal of which is character formation and personal transformation, and "Berlin, " which focuses on orderly, disciplined, critical research.
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Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation as a Focus for Theological Education
Hough, Joseph C. Jr. and Barbara G. Wheeler, editors
Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
1988
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Beyond Theological Tourism: Mentoring as a Grassroots Approach to Theological Education
Thistlethwaite, Susan B. and George F. Cairns
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
1994
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Since the early days of liberation theology, Northern Hemisphere theological education has used the phrase "solidarity with the oppressed" to denote the religiously and morally appropriate response to situations of violence and oppression. Yet efforts to inculcate solidarity of heart and mind often devolve into a kind of "theological tourism" wherein professors and students visit oppressed communities without truly participating...
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Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator
Ferguson, Duncan S. and Weston William J., editors
Geneva Press, Louisville, KY
2003
From the Publisher
Presbyterian educators Duncan Ferguson and William Weston argue that the calling to teach in higher education is distinctively Reformed and a primary mission of the Presbyterian church. This collection of essays first lays the biblical, theological, and historical foundations for this calling, then explores how it is lived out today in educational institutions -- church-related as well as secular. Concluding that today's church...
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Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 2
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...
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Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 3
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...
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Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 1
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...
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Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 4
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...
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Christian Higher Education Volume 3 Number 1
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...
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Christian Identity and Theological Education
Hough, Joseph C. Jr. and John B. Cobb
Scholars Press, Chico, CA
1985
From the Publisher
This book is the result of a study conducted by the Association of Theological Schools with the support of the Lilly Endowment, which investigates the "multifaceted study of theological education." The purpose of the study is to engage in pragmatic ways to revise theological curricula in light of the present global situation.
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Christian Religious Education: Sharing our Story and Vision
Groome, Thomas H.
Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA
1980
From the Publisher
Blends the best contemporary biblical scholarship, theology, and theories of education to give a coherent account of the nature, purpose, context, method, stages, and role of teachers in Christian education.
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Church-Affiliated Higher Education
Stoltzfus, Victor
Pinchpenny Press, Goshen, IN
1992
From the Publisher
Stoltzfus shows us the pressures on religious colleges towards assimilation into the mainstream, but also shows us the surprising strength of those colleges and the unique ways in which each acts to pass on the living tradition of its faith.
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Context as Text: Field Education's Contribution to Theological Education
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Crisis in the Church: The Plight of Theological Education
Leith, John H.
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1997
From the Publisher
Drawing on his wealth of experience as both a seminary professor and minister, John Leith identifies and confronts the contemporary crisis in theological education. He argues that the crisis in the seminaries is interwoven with the crisis in the church, and that the secularization of educational institutions has led seminaries to move away from their primary responsibility - preparing pastors for ministry.
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Discerning the Call: Advancing the Quality of Ordained Leadership
Imbler, John M. and Linda K. Plengemeier, editors
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
1992
From the Publisher
In 1986, 43 percent of Disciples clergy were between fifty and sixty. Where will their replacements come from, and how can we help them recognize and respond to their call?
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Ecumenical Formation: A Methodology for a Pluralistic Age
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Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination
Foster, Charles R., Lisa E. Dahill, Lawrence A. Golemon, and Barbara Wang Tolentino
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
This book emerges from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachings study of the most pressing concerns involved in preparation of clergy across all faiths and denominations. Working with accrediting bodies and professional associations as well as the educational institutions themselves, the findings reported in this book can be used to improve the quality of education for future ministers, priests and rabbis.
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Educating Leaders for Ministry: Issues and Responses
Klimoski, Victor J., Kevin J. O'Neil and Katarina M. Schuth
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
2005
From the Publisher
Educating Leaders for Ministry names four overarching challenges that students, faculty, and administrators face in theological education: theological differences, learning differences, integration, and assessment. The six-year program, known popularly as the Keystone Conferences (1996-2001), tapped the experience of nearly 150 educators and administrators as it identified and proposed responses to the particularly problematic...
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Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions
Schon, Donald A.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1987
From the Publisher
Doctors, architects, lawyers and engineers are all trained in schools that emphasize technique but neglect the key element of artistry that distinguishes the true professional. Today's professional is a drudge, mechanically applying privileged knowledge to rote tasks. That is Schon's diagnosis of higher education, and as a remedy he recommends learning by doing. To teach skills of improvisation and problem-framing, he feels...
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Educational Technology and Distance Education: Issues and Implications for Theological Education
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Education for Ministry: Reform and Renewal in Theological Education
Schner, George
Sheed & Ward, Kansas City, MO
1993
From the Publisher
Questions about education for Christian ministry are currently the subject of lively debate in both Church and society. Major constructive proposals have been made from within several church traditions. Though Catholics have been a part of those ecumenical discussions, they are only beginning to contribute from their rich resources. This work is a dialogue with the questions and issues already raised in other traditions, with...
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Education for Reflective Ministry
van der Ven, Johannes A.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1998
From the Publisher
Written by one of today s leading theorists in the field of pastoral theology, Volume 24 in the Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs series critically evaluates the diverse educational models available for ministry in today s societal and ecclesial context in the West.
Johannes van der Ven also proposes his own "reflective ministry" model designed to teach pastors to make self-reliant yet foundationally sound choices...
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Engaging Technology in Theological Education: All That We Can't Leave Behind
Hess, Mary E.
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2005
From the Publisher
We live in a media culture, surrounded by ever-evolving digital technologies. Engaging Technology in Theological Education is a breakthrough book that invites religious educators to both engage and adapt their pedagogy to incorporate new media and technology.
Drawing from her expertise as a seminary professor and consultant to religious institutions on the use of technology in teaching, Mary E. Hess invites professors,...
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Exploring New Understandings of Theological Scholarship
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Former ATS Presidents Reflect on the Future of Theological Education in the New Millennium
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God our Teacher: Theological Basics in Christian Education
Pazmino, Robert W.
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2001
From the Publisher
A topic of frequent discussion in religious education circles is the relationship between theology and practice. How does Christian theology work itself out in the teaching ministries of the church? Noted Christian education thinker Robert Pazmio contemplates this debate and offers a contemporary overview of the messages theology brings to Christian education.
Sensitive to today s expanding global culture, God Our...
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God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education
Mud Flower Collective
Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH
1985
From the Publisher
This book is the written record of seven feminists' commitment to practice what they preach-to make incarnate both the fierce and the whimsical character of that which is born in every shared effort to teach and learn with minds set on justice.
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Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability
Anderson, Robert C., editor
Haworth Press, Binghampton, NY
2003
From the Publisher
Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability examines graduate schools of theology and their limited familiarity with the study of disability -- and the presence of people with disabilities in particular -- on their campuses. Dubbed a "missing note" by one theologian, this text offers critical research and illuminates new pathways for theologia and practice in the community of faith. Reviews of previous...
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Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices
Dykstra, Craig
Geneva Press, Louisville, KY
1999
From the Publisher
Craig Dykstra worked with Rev. Dr. Dorothy Bass to write Practicing Our Faith -- another classic book high on the recommended reading list. Growing in the Life of Faith explores the areas of ministry and Christian education with flair, sensitivity, and an imaginative compassion that is sure to touch and inspire readers, ministers, and educators. Dykstra's compassionate stance and creative and subtle nuances, respectful of varying...
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Hard to Find: Searching For Practical Faculty in the 1990's
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How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind
Hughes, Richard T.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2001
From the Publisher
Can Christian Faith sustain the life of the mind? To many academics this question seems absurd. In their judgment, religion is fundamentally dogmatic, whereas the life of the mind requires openness, creativity, and imagination. This assumption about the nature of religion in general, and Christianity in particular, has contributed significantly over the past century to the divorce between faith and learning at countless colleges...
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Incarnating Globalization in ATS Schools: Issues, Experience, Understandings, Challenges
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Is There A Problem? Theological Students and Religious Leadership for the Future
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Leading from the Center: The Emerging Role of the Chief Academic Officer in Theological Schools
McLean, Jeanne P.
Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
1999
From the Publisher
Presents the results of a research study which surveyed the state of the deans of 75 percent of North American theological schools. The study profiles, who the deans are the types of work that they due, and their role in the administration and governance of schools. Reasons for high turnover are explored and recommendations are made to help schools encourage and develop leadership qualities in academic deans.
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Let Ministry Teach: A Guide to Theological Reflection
Kinast, Robert L.
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
1996
From the Publisher
Drawing upon 17 years of experience in theology, Dr. Kinast describes a step-by-step approach to help students and experienced ministers learn what their ministers teaches. Through examples, practical suggestions, and principles grounded in process theology, readers of this book explore the full range of resources needed for meaningful theological reflection.
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Making Connections: A Guide for Conducting Perception Studies
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Methodism and Education 1849-1902: J.H. Rigg, Romanism, and Wesleyan Schools
Smith, John T.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1998
From the Publisher
This thorough history of the Wesleyan Methodist educational efforts in Victorian England discusses the influence of Dr. James Harrison Rigg, Principal of Westminster Training College, who dominated his church and who made friendships with senior politicians of the day. The book also Looks in depth at the influence of anti-Catholicism, which was rampant in the Methodist church of the era.
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Missing Connections: Public Perceptions of Theological Education and Religious Leadership
From the Publisher
Three themes guide Auburn Center studies of theological education: practices in teaching and learning, the management of institutional resources, and the role of theological education in religious and public life. With this issue of Auburn Studies, we present our first report related to the critical, but complex, reality labeled by our third guiding theme.
In the spring of 1998, a research team visited four cities to...
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Models for Christian Higher Education: Strategies for Success in the Twenty-First Century
Hughes, Richard T. and William B. Adrian
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1997
From the Publisher
This timely look at the state of Christian higher education in America contains descriptive, historical narratives that explore how fourteen Christian colleges and universities are successfully integrating faith and learning on their campuses despite the challenges posed by the increasingly pluralistic nature of modern culture. Written by respected representatives from seven major faith traditions - Roman Catholic, Lutheran,...
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Models of Assessing Institutional and Educational Effectiveness: The Pilot School Project
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Multiple Paths to Ministry: New Models for Theological Education
Barker, Lance R. and B. Edmon Martin
Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH
2004
From the Publisher
In a rapidly changing congregational and professional environment, how will churches and their institutions of theological education prepare ministers for diverse contexts? Barker and Martin affirm the theological school's continued role yet claim that American Protestantism can no longer rely on graduate theological schools as the sole educational institutions charged with providing curricula for theological study related to...
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New Perspectives on Theological Education
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Practical Wisdom on Theological Teaching and Learning
Warford, Malcolm L., editor
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2004
From the Publisher
Contemporary theological education is facing profound changes. Fundamental shifts in both church and society have established a volatile context for theological teaching and learning. Seminaries are struggling with the growing diversity of their students, faculties, and institutional commitments. This book addresses these issues both contextually and historically, engages the nature of theological teaching and learning, and...
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Project: Theological Education
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Public Character in Action: Patterns and Possibilities
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Quality and Accreditation: Final Report on the Redeveloped Accrediting Standards
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Reason for the Hope: The Futures of Roman Catholic Theologates
Schuth, Katarina
Michael Glazier, Inc, Wilmington, DE
1989
From the Publisher
This new 8-volume series brings us the seasoned fruits of modern scholarship. The authors are personally and pastorally aware of the theological concerns and challenges of our time and are attuned to the needs of contemporary students.
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Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models
Banks, Robert
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1999
From the Publisher
Banks enters the debate on contemporary theological education with a comprehensive and refreshingly practical call to a missional model for theological education. He strives to root this model in a greater appreciation for biblical perspectives on formation for ministry.... Banks provides an extensive review of historical and contemporary issues and models of theological education. His review is critical, and while his missional...
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Religious Education and the Brain
Larsen, Jerry
Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ
2000
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What if what we know about our brains and the way humans think was applied to the way we nurture each other in faith? Would we do it differently? What if we let cognitive science inform our educational strategies and the ways we help each other form our spirits? What if we began to believe that brain research and scientific investigation could reveal something of our spiritual nature and destiny?" These questions are at the...
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Religious Higher Education in the United States: A Source Book
Hunt, Thomas C. and James C. Carper, editors
Garland Publishing, New York, NY
1996
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Higher education today suffers from lack of a clearly articulated purpose-a deficiency particularly challenging to religious-affiliated institutions. What is the relationship of secular learning to the faith that originally undergirded these institutions? This book offers the reader answers to this and other major questions currently facing denomination-affiliated institutions of higher education. Following a chapter on civil...
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Saving Work: Feminist Practices of Theological Education
Chopp, Rebecca S.
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1995
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One of the most significant changes in theological education during the past two decades has been a dramatic rise in the enrollment of women in the seminaries. In this ground-breaking book, Rebecca Chopp explores the impact these new voices are having on theological education. She looks at how women and men are actually forming a new Christian praxis through their engagement with feminist practices and thought that often exist...
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Seek and Find? Revenues in Theological Education
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Seminaries on the Information Highway
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Seminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry: An Analysis of Trends and Transitions
Schuth, Katarina
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
1999
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In Seminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry, Sr. Schuth details some of the ways seminaries are responding to the ministerial requirements of the Church of today and tomorrow. Extensive research images of Church, priesthood, and ministry are taken from a broad sample of faculty, students, administrators, and trustees to answer such questions as: What is the nature of the local and universal mission of the Church...
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Sharing Faith: A Comprehensive Approach to Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
Groome, Thomas H.
Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA
1991
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The long-awaited masterwork from the author of Christian Religious Education in which he applies the "shared praxis" approach to the whole of religious education and pastoral ministry.
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Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structure of Theological Education
Wheeler, Barbara G. and Edward Farley eds.
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1991
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At a time of widespread perplexity about the social role of humanistic scholarship, few disciplines are as anxious about their nature and purposes as academic theology. In this important work, W. Clark Gilpin, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, proposes that American theological scholarship become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society. Gilpin approaches this...
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Sociology, Theology and the Curriculum
Francis, Leslie J.
Cassell, London and New York
1999
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In this new volume, theologians reflect on sociological methods, explore social theories of the human agent, and offer a theological transformation of sociology. Spanning such developments as local, non-stipendiary ministries, the identification of the roots of church growth, and giving voice to gay and lesbian Christians, this collection of innovative essays provides a fascinating and important dialogue on how the seemingly...
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Study of Theological Education: 1989-1995 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Teaching Adults
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Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.
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Teaching as a Sacramental Act
Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino
Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH
2004
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"In Teaching as a Sacramental Act, Moore asserts that Christian vocation, and the teaching vocation in particular, can be best understood as sacramental, mediating the grace of God through ordinary creation for the sanctification of human life and the well-being of all creation. She develops her argument through three important factors: a historical-theological analysis of the Christian sacraments and sacramentality; a phenomenological...
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Teaching from the Heart: Theology and Educational Method
Moore, Mary Elizabeth
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1998
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The author argues for an organic or process approach to religious, moral, and theological education. She takes up five reigning educational methods (case study, gestalt, phenomenological, narrative, conscientizing), gauges their strengths, weaknesses, and theological promise, and offers practical reformulations of each method.
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Tending Talents: The Cultivation of Effective and Productive Theological School Faculties
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The Advancement of Theological Education
Niebuhr, H. Richard
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, NY
1957
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A study of the work which theological schools do in the preparation of persons for the parish ministry.
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The Character and Assessment of Learning for Religious Vocation
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The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary
Breyer, Chloe
Basic Books, New York, NY
2000
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An intimate and inspiring chronicle of a young woman entering a vocation that for centuries has been the exclusive dominion of menSet in the context of the Church Year, The Close is an enthralling account of one young woman's spiritual journey. It is both a personal meditation on faith, in the spirit of Kathleen Norris's Cloister Walk, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes story of a graduate student's first year, in the mode...
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The Education of the Practical Theologian: Responses to Joseph Hough and John Cobb
Browning, Don, David Polk and Ian S. Evison
Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
1989
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The essays in this volume ... were prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago on October 8-11, 1987.
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The Formation of Christian Understanding: Theological Hermeneutics
Wood, Charles M.
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1993
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Reissued in response to many requests, this is a book about the Bible--specifically about Christian ways of relating to, using, and understanding Christian scripture and tradition. Professor Wood demonstrates that the aim of Christian understanding is the knowledge of God and the changes in outlook on the Bible that came with the rise of biblical criticism.
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The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University
Farley, Edward
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN
1988
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In a sequel to his 1983 work, Theologia, Farley develops a conceptual apparatus for re-thinking the structure of theological education in church, seminary, and university which is unified by a hermeneutical approach. He defines this approach as acts of interpretation which yield understanding, and argues that it requires ordered learning and critical thinking.
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The Gathering Storm: The Educational Debt of Theological Students
Ruger, Anthony, Sharon L. Miller, and Kim Maphis Early
Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, NY
2005
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This issue on the educational debt of theological students revisits a topic first studied ten years ago by the Auburn Center for the Study of Theological Education. The 1995 report found that debt was indeed becoming a problem for a significant, although small, proportion of students. A majority of students now carry educational debt, and they are borrowing larger amounts than in the past. As a result, many theological school...
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The Ideal Seminary: Pursuing Excellence in Theological Education
Calian, Carnegie Samuel
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
2002
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The president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary addresses everyone who has a stake in theological schools and education: educators, administrators, students, and donors. He discusses institutional challenges, program challenges, and student concerns. Each chapter ends with an issue for discussion.
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The Life of the Mind: A Christian Perspective
Williams, Clifford
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
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The Promise and Challenge of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Theological Education
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The Public Character of Theological Education
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Schon, Donald A.
Basic Books, New York, NY
1983
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A leading MIT social scientist and consultant examines five professions engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning to show how professionals really go about solving problems.
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The Sacred and The Secular University
Roberts, Jon H. and James Turner
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
2000
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American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the study of the sciences and the humanities effectively dissolved the Protestant framework of learning by introducing a new secularized curriculum. This secularization...
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The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
Jones, L. Gregory and Stephanie Paulsell, editors
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
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In The Scope of Our Art a diverse group of theological teachers explores the spiritual dimensions of their vocation as religious educators. Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St. Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual...
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The Seminary Student Writes
Core, Deborah
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
2000
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Deborah Core offers practical guidance for beginning seminary students who feel overwhelmed and under-prepared to write the number and quality of papers their courses require.
The book begins with reflections on writing as a sacred action, then addresses such practical matters as choosing and researching a topic; outlining, drafting, and polishing a paper; and using the proper format for footnotes and bibliography....
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The Study of Chief Academic Officers in Theological Schools: Reflections on Academic Leadership
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The Study of the Seminary Presidency in Catholic Theological Seminaries
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The Study of the Seminary Presidency in Protestant Theological Seminaries
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The Study of the Seminary Presidency: Reflections of Seminary Leaders
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Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education
Farley, Edward
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN
1983
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Farley points to a series of developments in theological education which have led to the loss of a defining theological vision. Theology used to be, and still ought to be "not just objective science, but a personal knowledge of God and the things of God."
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Theological Education and the Practice of Ministry
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Theological Education as Teaching and Learning
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Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition
Carey, Patrick W. and Earl C. Muller, S.J., editors
Crossroads, New York, NY
1997
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The aim of this book is both to raise questions about the contemporary theological enterprise and to suggest ways to improve theological education at the college, seminary, and graduate levels. With that in mind the editors have here gathered together important essays by leading theologians and prominent bishops that provide expert assessment of the present state of Catholic theological education and its future prospects, treating...
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Theological Education in the Evangelical Tradition
Hart, D.G. and R. Albert Mohler, editors
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
1996
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The purpose of this volume, according to the editors, "is to provide historical perspective necessary for measuring the strength, vitality, and character as well as the weaknesses and failures of evangelical theological institutions." This study accomplishes this goal by examining the origins, distinctive contributions, and tensions within theological education in the evangelical tradition. The essays are organized by themes:...
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Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century
Petersen, Rodney L. and Nancy M. Rourke, editors
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
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What constitutes theological literacy in the new millennium? Scholars such as Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza and David Tracy discuss this weighty question in Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century, a heavy but thoughtful collection of essays. The book's most helpful aspect is its diversity of Christian traditions: there are discussions of evangelical, Orthodox, Catholic and mainline Protestant views here, and contributors...
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Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation: A reader on theology and Christian education
Astley, Jeff, Leslie J. Francis, and Colin Crowder, editors
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1996
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Twenty-nine articles from international journals that 'will provide the reader with both a comprehensive map of how contemporary Christian theologians approach the tasks of Christian education, and also skillfully selected excursions in the complex terrain
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Theory and Practice in Theological Education
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Thinking Strategically - 2001 Forum: FTE Theological School Programs: Cassette tape
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Thinking Theologically - 2001 Forum: FTE Theological School Programs: Cassette tape
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To Teach, To Delight, and To Move: Theological Education in a Post-Christian World
Cunningham, David S., editor
Cascade Books, Eugene, OR
2004
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This book initiates a new conversation about how theological education might be re-envisioned for the twenty-first century church. The prevailing curricular structure in today s seminaries and divinity schools was fashioned in a very different era one that assumed the continued cultural dominance of Christianity and the continued academic dominance of the canons of Enlightenment reason. Neither assumption is viable in today...
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To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School
Kelsey, David
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1992
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Kelsey argues that the central purpose of a theological school is to understand God more truly, that Christian traditions intersect with the Greek idea of education as paideia and the much later German idea of education as wissenschaft to create the models of theological schooling operative today, and that the issues facing theological education arise because of the conflicting understandings of the world and God embodied in...
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Transforming the City: Reframing Education for Urban Ministry
Villafane, Eldin, Bruce W. Jackson, Robert A. Evans, and Alice Frazer Evans
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
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Experience teaches that traditional approaches to ministry education do not work well in the ever-changing climate of the city. The dynamic, complex nature of inner-city life demands that we begin to think differently about urban ministry and how we develop leaders. Transforming the City offers a new way to look at ministry training and presents a number of informative case studies that can help in equipping people to minister...
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True and False
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Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study
Wood, Charles M.
Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
1985
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This book offers an orientation in Christian theology, broadly conceived. Its subject is not that single discipline in the theological curriculum to which the title of 'theology' is nowadays often reserved, but rather the whole curriculum, or the whole range of disciplines which together constitute the enterprise of Christian theology, and whose study constitutes theological education.
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Wise Teaching: Biblical Wisdom and Educational Ministry
Melchert, Charles F.
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1998
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This book seeks to be responsible both to biblical scholarship and to pedagogical inquiry. It focuses on wisdom texts in the Bible (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Synoptic Gospels) and on inferences about teaching and learning that can be drawn from these texts. Acknowledging that we cannot reconstruct the practices of the wise teachers of the biblical tradition with historical methods,...
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Manna from Heaven? Theological and Rabbinical Student Debt
Ruger, Anthony, and Barbara G. Wheeler
The Auburn Center, New York
1995
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Although indebtedness is still not a major problem for most theological and rabbinical students, levels of indebtedness have risen steeply in recent years. These increases are usually the indirect and cumulative result of decisions made by theological and rabbinical schools.
This article outlines the findings and recommendations of the National Study of Theological Student Indebtedness, conducted between 1990 and 1994 by...
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For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Education, and Christian Ministry
Bass, Dorothy C., and Craig Dykstra, eds.
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI
2008
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What does it mean to lead a truly "life-giving way of life"? What kinds of learning and teaching will best prepare ministers to foster such a way of life in their congregations? How might teachers of practical theology best understand and undertake their task to educate and form ministers? Respected scholars and ministers explore such questions in For Life Abundant, probing and clarifying the significance of practical theology...
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Master of Divinity Curriculum Revision
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A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship
McMahon, Melody Layton and David R. Stewart, eds.
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham, MYD
2006
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The American Theological Library Association has served libraries, librarians, and academic institutions with distinction for sixty years. A Broadening Conversation offers a means of listening in on the rich and vivid conversation of this community over the course of its history so far.
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Theological Schools and the Church
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Signs of The Times: Present and Future Theological Faculty
From the Publisher
This issue on theological school faculty and doctoral students, who are the theological faculty of the future, revisits a topic first studied ten years ago by the Auburn Center for the Study of Theological Education. The findings of the present study, compared with those of Auburn s earlier research, suggest that theological education is, on the whole, a stable enterprise. On many items and indicators, theological faculty...
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How Are We Doing? The Effectiveness of Theological Schools as Measured by the Vocations and Views of Graduates
From the Publisher
This study reports the results of the first-ever survey of graduates of theological and rabbinical schools in North America. The survey was sent to graduates from Protestant, Catholic and Jewish institutions who earned M.Div., M.A., Rabbinical or comparable degrees in 1995 and 2000. In addition, the Association of Theological Schools, the accrediting body for schools in the U.S. and Canada, provided data from their Entering...
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Religious Education
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.
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Religious Education
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.
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Faith, Morality, and Development
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.
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Research and Knowledge Production in Religious Education
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.
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Religious Education
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