Sentences with phrase «in a theological school»

This generates two sets of marks of excellence in theological schooling.

Two others components center more explicitly on formation for teaching in a theological school.

There is conventional wisdom in theological schools about these terms.

Others would be trained to teach counseling, preaching or religious education in theological schools of other faiths.

As a systematic theologian in a theological school within a predominantly black university, I have sought to interpret the faith for future leaders in the church.

Surely the whole situation deserves close attention in theological schools.

Real attention is being given in theological school to improving the student's own mental health as a part of his education.

Such examples have encouraged them to look forward to comparable efforts in the theological schools.

We shall be speaking of a focus in a theological school on questions about «particular Christian congregations» as a means to understanding God Christianly.

A second set of marks of excellence in theological schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness of a theological school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices of governance, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.

Historically there have been a variety of polities in theological schools in North America.

In contrast to the congregation, among whose practices doing theology is inherent but secondary, in a theological school doing theology is primary and central among its constituting practices.

Without further qualification, the capacities cultivated in theological schooling could just as well be capacities for «doing» contemplation or capacities for specific affections as they could be capacities for intentional bodily action and discursive reasoning.

The function of commitment to particular theological traditions in theological schools, whether or not symbolized by required subscription to a confessional statement, can not imply that schooling there may only consist of directly communicating a single «authorized» line of thought on any given topic.

It means, first, that the understanding of God that persons in a theological school come to have is always concrete.

It is my opinion that every dollar invested in a theological school will be a danger to Methodism.»

But nothing is more concrete than the differences among the racial, gender, and socioeconomic locations of persons involved in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the differences between the ways in which models of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.

At the same time they both clearly call for increased stress on Wissenschaft in theological schooling.

Just as there is no one correct form of polity implied in a theological school's overarching goal, so there is no one correct institutional mechanism to accomplish internal ideology critique.

[31] Laurent Ramambason, «The Study of Mission in Theological Schools: A Critical Synopsis,» A Paper Presented at the International Consultation on Mission and Ecumenics, Bangalore, The United Theological College, September 10 - 13, 1998.

Lummis said the chances are relatively slim with so many older students in theological schools.

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.