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These probing essays, factual case studies and critical commentaries by thirty-nine prominent scholars, educators, seminary administrators and church executives together address the emerging issues of the globalization of theological education. What does it mean to minister in a world of both interdependence and polarization? How can leaders be prepared to build up a church able and willing to respond to the challenge of global witness and service? What new ways of teaching and learning can seminaries and congregations develop toward the ultimate goal of faithfully and effectively embracing all of God's creation? (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Forewords (Walter Brueggemann, Daniel J. Harrington, Garth M. Rosell, and Barbaraa Brown Zikmund)
Introduction (David A. Roozen, Alice Frazer Evans, and Robert A. Evans)

ch. 1 An Historical Survey
Essay: Justo L. González, and Catherine G. González
Case Study: Winning Over the Faculty - The director of a seminary globalization program faces strong opposition from a traditional faculty member.
Teaching Note
Commentary: Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

ch. 2 Meanings of Globalization
Essay: William E. Lesher
Case Study: Why Globalization? The faculty of an established seminary struggles with the theological rationale for a globilization program and debates the value of experimental education
Teaching Note
Commentary: M. Shawn Copeland

ch. 3 Globalization as Evangelism
Essay: Paul G. Hiebert
Case Study: Changing the Face of the Parish
A parish priest, whose concept of ministry was shaped by required foreign language study, counsels members of his congregation threatened by a growing Hispanic population in their parish and suggestions of a Spanish Mass
Teaching Note
Commentary: Harold J. Recinos

ch. 4 Globalization as Ecumenical/Interfaith Dialogue
Essay: Jane I. Smith
Case Study: Sacred Sites
An Australian pastor must decide on his demination's role in a dispute between the Australian government and an Aborginial community's claim of sacred land.
Teaching Note
Commentary: L. Shannon Jung

ch. 5 Globalization as Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Essay: Robert J. Schreiter
Case Study: Text and Context
A debate between seminary faculty members about written vs. oral reports raises implications for the validity of academic requirements for extension education courses in indigenous communities
Teaching Note
Commentary: Pierre Goldberger

ch. 6 Globalization as Justice
Essay: Alice Frazer Evans and Robert A. Evans
Case Study: Evangelicals in a New Key
A Latin American student in a North American evangelical seminary faces a vocational dilemma as eh questions the relevance of his theological education for addressing "third-world" poverty.
Teaching Note
Commentary: W. L. Herzfeld

ch. 7 Liberation: Gender, Race, and Class
Essay: Toinette M. Eugeme
Case Study: To Go Home Again
A white middle-class seminarian struggles to reconcile her experiences in a required "developing world" immersion seminar with her understanding of the mission of the North American church and the purpose of seminary education
Teaching Note
Commentary: Daniel Spencer

ch. 8 Implications of Globalization for Biblical Understanding
Essay: Craig L. Blomberg
Case Study: Affirmation of Life
A Latin American seminary deals with the implications for its lifestyle and investment policies as a consequence of a radically revised program of study based on biblical and contextual analyses
Teaching Note
Commentary: Elsa Tamez

ch. 9 Global Economy and the Globalization of Theological Education
Essay: M. Douglas Meeks
Case Study: A Place for Reconciliation
A Sough African seminary faculty is divided over the seminary's role int he rebuilding of a community devastated by the economic and political repercussions of apartheid.
Teaching Note
Commentary: Itumeleng J. Mosala

ch. 10 Liberating Pedagogies in the Globalization of Theological Education
Essay: William Bean Kennedy
Case Study: More Questions Than Answers
A dramatic encounter during an international seminar challenges an experienced ethics professor to revise his approach to teaching and his relationship to international students
Teaching Note
Commentary: Heidi Hadsell do Nascimento

ch. 11 Institutional Change and the Globalization of Theological Education
Essay: David A. Roozen
Case Study: Globalization Gone Wild
The president of a seminary involved in a five-year globalization program encounters the complexity of institutional change as he faces competing demands for time and resources
Teaching Note
Commentary: Eleanor Scott Meyers

ch. 12 Mutuality in Global Education
Essay: Mortimer Arias
Cast Study: Apart from His People
Jamaican church leaders debate the costs and benefits of international education following a meeting with a young pastor, trained abroad, who is experiencing serious conflict with his Jamaican parishoners.
Teaching Note
Commentary: Henry S. Wilson

Contributors
Case Authors
Erskine Clarke, Columbia Theological Seminary
Gordon Dicker, United Theological Seminary Australia
Alice Frazer Evans, Plowshares Institute
Robert A. Evans, Plowshares Institute
Lisa Jafta, Rhodes University, South Africa
G. Douglass LEwis, Wesley Theological Seminary
James N. Pankratz, Concord College, Canada
Anne Reissner, Maryknoll School of Theology
Robert L. Stivers, Pacific Lutheran University
Richard F. Vieth, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Ronald C. White, Huntington Library and University of Southern California