Sentences with phrase «involved in theological schooling»

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.

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The readers he has in mind include: perhaps a student starting her second year of study, or an academic who has just joined a theological school faculty and has never herself been previously involved in theological education, or a person newly appointed to the board of trustees of a theological school.

We have been elaborating what is involved in saying that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God truly.

Does this thesis mean that one has to be personally and existentially involved in the common life of a congregation in order to be capable of engaging fruitfully in the practices comprising a theological school?

It does not follow, however, that the persons involved in the practices constituting a theological school must also be existentially engaged in the practices constituting a worshiping congregation.

Moreover, study of each of them may involve the use of any or several of a variety of well - established types of inquiry: sociological, anthropological, psychological, philosophical, or - the dominant mode of inquiry in theological schooling today — historical.

Not only does Wood distance himself from the «Berlin» model's picture of what is involved in education in Wissenschaft he also rejects its definition of theological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education&rtheological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education&rTheological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education&rtheological education» (93).

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

A theological school's focus on congregations in order more truly to understand God must, if congregations constituting practice is truly public worship, involve two things.

[5] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, if truth is really the issue, surely it would be better to focus study on the foundations that justify our getting involved in a congregation in the first place.

In the theological schools and seminaries, the questions of the history of religions are involved in the relations of Christianity to other religionIn the theological schools and seminaries, the questions of the history of religions are involved in the relations of Christianity to other religionin the relations of Christianity to other religions.

The social practices involved in academic specializations tend to be institutionalized (often informally) outside of theological schools in what are often referred to as academic guilds.

Theological schooling involves conceptual capacities that are existentially forming, but perhaps in a subjunctive mood, «condition contrary to [personal] fact.»