Archive for September, 2010
In this essay I hope to reflect on and critically evaluate my experience of Theological Education and by drawing on this experience make suggestions about the future of theological education. I will begin by briefly talking about my own initial expectations concerning college and how I found that they developed as I learnt more about [ READ MORE ]
A Powerpoint presentation to the Centre for Theological Education by Dr Paul Sanders, 2009. TRENDS IN GLOBAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION Belfast.ppt[ READ MORE ]
Theological Education (TE) is in a state of crisis in many parts of the world. The interrelated question of means and ends as well as aims and purposes continue to be raised. Issues of resources and governance, of priorities and faculty development seem to dominate the debates. According to Banks, only intermittently and in a [ READ MORE ]
Every human organization needs somebody to be in the helm of affairs to steer both the human and non-human resources available to the organization to the desired vision of the organization concerned. The person who takes up this responsibility is referred to as the leader of the organization. Leadership, according to Walter Wright “is a [ READ MORE ]
A great teacher can be defined by two simple words. Best friend. Who better to trust than a best friend? Who better to love and be loved in return than a best friend? Who better to gain knowledge from, than a best friend? Finally, who better to remember throughout the days of your life, than [ READ MORE ]
Some years ago I was invited to preach in a pentecostal church in a slum neighbourhood.In this small congregation it was possible to engage the audience in an dialogue over the parable of the Fruitless Fig Tree (Luke 13.6-9). After the service three women came to me and said that they were delighted to discover [ READ MORE ]
“Theological Education is the training of men and women to know and serve God”.[1] A Community on the other hand is “a place of belonging, a place where people are earthed and find their identity. Of other course, people do not belong only to communities; some belong to gangs or sects, to clubs, to militant [ READ MORE ]
There is a general outcry that the products of the seminaries are not what the churches need. The knowledge and skills they acquire through their training is seen as being irrelevant for church ministry, inappropriate for context and dominated by secular academic patterns. We will seek to answer the question of whether the seminary is [ READ MORE ]
In Africa, it is said that church memberships are miles wide but a skin deep in terms of biblical understanding. In the West, Collinson observes that “the churches are declining but theology – serious academic and mainstream orthodox in evaluative commitment shows no sign of withering on the vine.”[1] Both have one common need – [ READ MORE ]
Education is the process through which a society imparts its young generation towards being responsible members of the society. Opposed to this definition schooling is the process of producing competent personnel for specific functions in a given social system. Normally before the industrial revolution, horses would be drilled (schooled) so that they would pull and [ READ MORE ]
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