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Discussion on the vocational purpose of theological education relies on a number of key historical debates. The first debate is very English, although it has its origins in ancient Greece, was disputed by a group of Scotsmen and an Englishman lecturing in Ireland; has been developed by a Spaniard writing in his country’s pre-revolutionary dictatorship [ READ MORE ]
Spiritual formation has always been a central concern of the best theological educators ever since Jesus walked Galilee with his disciples and was more concerned with strengthening their faith than filling their heads. There are survey articles and bibliographies on the subject which the student can refer for a more comprehensive listing[1] but this is [ READ MORE ]
A talk to the staff of Belfast Bible College , 2010. Why do you do what you do – in the classroom and out of it? What are you ? What is your calling and job? Or, to ask a more precise question, where did you get your model from? I would suggest four main [ 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 ]
One of the three major goals for theological education in the Bible College model, is that of spiritual formation. This term is of recent use within the movement, but the need to progress in the Christian life and discipleship, to deepen one’s relationship with God and to work out holiness in living have always been [ READ MORE ]
Many institutions and programmes training people for Christian service and ministry today are accredited by universities or government approved accrediting agencies. This was not always the case and the article examines historical reasons for this reversal, the supporting arguments for such a linkage and the critics of such a relationship between Christian seminaries or colleges [ READ MORE ]
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