Sentences with phrase «educating church leadership»

However, a theological school understood on the Berlin model would necessarily be defined by the goal of educating church leadership.

The first is that it is disastrous to define theological schooling as the task of educating church leadership because it distorts and finally destroys theology.

The conventional view that a theological school is «theological» because it educates church leadership has been roundly attacked in the current conversation about theological education.

However, unlike most theological schools on either model, the school sketched in this proposal is not defined as a «theological» school by a goal to educate church leadership.

Not exact matches

But one thing I hope the church will do, and maybe Mitch can help with this, is educate local leadership.

Conventional wisdom assumes that the defining goal of a theological school is to educate clergy for the churches, or, more broadly, to educate leadership for the churches (whether it is lay or ordained leadership is probably irrelevant).

Nobody at all has denied that theological schooling can educate people for church leadership; nor has anybody denied that church leaders should undergo theological schooling.

It is as though the church's ministry is meant only for the elite and thus for those educated for future leadership, not at all for those who study for immediate employability.

The first thing that churches need to do is have their leadership educate themselves on the growing number of SAHDs and realize that we are probably already attending their churches.

As a graduate school of the church, the primary task of a theological seminary is to provide educated leadership for the church in fulfilling this mission.

Theological education is theological because it educates professional church leadership through schooling in historical and, above all, philosophical Wissenschaft.

The character of theological education follows from the nature of professional church leadership as «practical theology» since the unifying goal of theological schooling is to educate such leadership.

Accepting the conventions of the «Berlin» type, it grounds the unity of education in its overarching goal of educating professional church leadership for the churches.

My proposal has been that precisely because a theological school is not defined by the goal of educating church leaders it may, as a matter of contingent fact, prepare its students very well for leadership in congregations.