Archive for September, 2010
Many women today are asking questions about the present style of theological education and the ministry that this sort of education prepares them for in the church…. RoleOfWomen.pdf[ READ MORE ]
Whatever the system of theological education may be, it is the quality of the person as the teacher which can and will make the programme a success or not…. Ling2.pdf[ READ MORE ]
Today we now find a situation in which people do not necessarily go through theological education before venturing into cross-cultural ministry. Missionary training is no longer limited to theological colleges and universities……. Essay1-MisTrEd.pdf[ READ MORE ]
We have, in this year 1888 reached an important crisis in missions. A hundred years of missionary labour lie behind us and we gather at thins international convention from East and West, North and South, ……. Our still unreached goal, the evangelisation of the world. TrainingOfMissionaries.pdf[ READ MORE ]
In this paper I want to reflect on the task of theological education, and more specifically, training for mission, within the context of globalisation. Since the forces driving economic globalisation are located in the so-called ‘developed’ world, and since that world largely overlaps with what has been known as ‘Christendom’, I want to explore the [ READ MORE ]
This paper is in three parts. Firstly, it begins with an historical survey of evangelical attitudes in the UK to the academy and the theology of the academy in particular from the inter-war years to today. Secondly, I chronicle and examine the world-wide evangelical accreditation movement of the 1980s which, although it was not especially [ READ MORE ]
Most Practitioners are agreed that theological education should be for a purpose outside of itself. The training paradigm sees that purpose, at least in part, as providing practical, professional training (we will distinguish between these words later in the essay). Three modern movements are especially significant in providing the theoretical ideas, language and categories of [ READ MORE ]
Assessment is a subject very much under discussion in Higher Education at the moment and is becoming a key debate in Theological Education especially in thinking about assessment beyond the academic area. Assessment.pdf[ READ MORE ]
Our fathers (and theirs before them) generally had one criterion to judge theology – “is it true?” But over the last 30 years it has become easier to see that this is not enough. Your theology may well be true, but is it good? good_theology2.pdf[ READ MORE ]
It has become increasingly common among theological educators to refer to their task in professional terms. We train people to do a professional job in the churches by being good professionals ourselves. Yet there are real problems associated with the use of this adjective in theological education today, in theory and practice. This article seeks [ READ MORE ]
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