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Creative Futures for Princeton Theological Seminary
Proposal abstract :
At a seminary like PTS in which financial resources can seem to buffer us from the challenges facing theological education, how can faculty leaders break through intellectual and creative obstacles in order to address the root causes of the seminary’s challenges with creativity, energy, and hope? That is, what are the possible futures for teaching at PTS, and what conditions allow for faculty to imagine and create those possibilities? The central activity of this grant is a four-day retreat for four faculty members at Princeton Seminary. The retreat will create space for rest and conversation, relaxation and individual writing, reflection and engagement with the larger questions Princeton Seminary is facing currently. The challenge that this activity will address is the necessity for intellectual and relational creativity in addressing the very real missional and pedagogical challenges faced by a seminary with a significant financial endowment.
Learning Abstract :
The project will energize and empower a core group of faculty to lead among their
colleagues with clarity and creativity as we shape the future of the seminary.
2. The project will create space for intellectual engagement alongside rest and fellowship with
the conviction that good conversation emerges from good relationship and rich rest.
3. The project will extend its reach by seeding creative and fruitful conversations among other
faculty colleagues as the core group recommits to nurturing and hosting hopeful
imagination about the future of our collective work at the seminary.
4. The project will engender creative space by funding an off-campus experience
characterized by rest and rejuvenation, both embodied and intellectual.
Description of Activities:
The central activity of this grant is a four-day retreat for four faculty members at Princeton
Seminary. Hosted at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Connecticut, the retreat will
create space for rest and conversation, relaxation and individual writing, reflection and
engagement with the larger questions Princeton Seminary is facing currently.
The challenge that this activity will address is the necessity for intellectual and relational
At a seminary like PTS in which financial resources can seem to buffer us from the challenges facing theological education, how can faculty leaders break through intellectual and creative obstacles in order to address the root causes of the seminary’s challenges with creativity, energy, and hope? That is, what are the possible futures for teaching at PTS, and what conditions allow for faculty to imagine and create those possibilities? The central activity of this grant is a four-day retreat for four faculty members at Princeton Seminary. The retreat will create space for rest and conversation, relaxation and individual writing, reflection and engagement with the larger questions Princeton Seminary is facing currently. The challenge that this activity will address is the necessity for intellectual and relational creativity in addressing the very real missional and pedagogical challenges faced by a seminary with a significant financial endowment.
Learning Abstract :
The project will energize and empower a core group of faculty to lead among their
colleagues with clarity and creativity as we shape the future of the seminary.
2. The project will create space for intellectual engagement alongside rest and fellowship with
the conviction that good conversation emerges from good relationship and rich rest.
3. The project will extend its reach by seeding creative and fruitful conversations among other
faculty colleagues as the core group recommits to nurturing and hosting hopeful
imagination about the future of our collective work at the seminary.
4. The project will engender creative space by funding an off-campus experience
characterized by rest and rejuvenation, both embodied and intellectual.
Description of Activities:
The central activity of this grant is a four-day retreat for four faculty members at Princeton
Seminary. Hosted at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Connecticut, the retreat will
create space for rest and conversation, relaxation and individual writing, reflection and
engagement with the larger questions Princeton Seminary is facing currently.
The challenge that this activity will address is the necessity for intellectual and relational