For several decades concern has been expressed about the need for greater integration and contextual significance in the curricular design of theological education. In addition there has been a growing awareness of the role theological schools should play in strengthening the missional vision and practice of local churches. Since 2008 the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon has been engaged in an ongoing experiment in the design and implementation of an integrated and contextually driven curriculum. Drawing on lessons learned from this experience, and from the wider discourse currently taking place in higher education, Transforming Theological Education provides theoretical foundations and practical principles for purposeful curriculum design, as well as tools for integrated and contextually significant learning in the classroom.
This handbook continues to be a one-of-a-kind resource for theological educators and all those involved in Christian leadership training.
Transforming Theological Education: A Practical Handbook for Integrative Learning
10 Or, in the language of E. V. Walter's Placeways: A Theory of Human Environment, “We call locations of experience 'places.'”11 To say that one's spiritual relationship to the environment (both natural and built) is significant, ...
This book emerges from an extensive research project into the area of transformative learning in theology in the Australian context.
Michael Pears and Paul Cloke, “Introduction,” Mission in Marginal Places: The Praxis (Milton Keynes: Authentic, 2016), 3. 3. . Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), ...
About the Contributor(s): Les Ball has had over 25 years' experience in theological education as lecturer at Bible College of Queensland, Academic Dean at Malyon College and Dean of Brisbane College of Theology to 2009, with particular ...
A number of outstanding public intellectuals such as Jonathan Jansen, Crain Soudien and Lis Lange have been invited to present papers to clarify the conceptual challenge and what this might entail for theology.
Rather than offering solutions or systems, Jordan seeks in these texts new shelters for theological education where powerful teaching can happen and—even as traditional institutions shrink or vanish—the hearts of students can catch fire ...
Challenging the conventional wisdom advanced by the educational debate during the last fifteen years, Robert Banks builds an innovative new model of theological education based on how ministry formation took place in biblical times.
In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church's future.