The importance of context is emphasized by Timothy J. Gorringe, professor
of theological studies at the University of Exeter, who interprets Barth's central task as setting forth a theology of freedom.
«If you don't see college as having a purpose greater than yourself, it loses all meaning,» says David Horner, a professor
of theological studies at Talbot University.
Dr. Mellert is an assistant professor in the department
of theological studies at the University of Dayton.
Grant Kaplan is an associate professor in the department
of theological studies at Saint Louis University.
Not exact matches
Additional faculty presenters
at the seminar will include Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University), Leon Kass (University
of Chicago), Alan Mittleman (Jewish
Theological Seminary), David Myers (UCLA), Suzanne Stone (Yeshiva University), and Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced
Study).
Another suggestion is a «
theological study in dialogue with the human sciences to develop a multi-faceted look
at the phenomenon
of homosexuality.»
He graduated from the
theological seminary in Lidingö, Sweden, in 1971,
studied sociology
at the University
of Stockholm in 1971 - 72, and received his licentiate in biology, chemistry, and geography
at the University
of Uppsala, Sweden, in 1981.
Psychologist Blair
studied at a number
of evangelical schools (Bob Jones University, Dallas
Theological Seminary and Westminster
Theological Seminary) and is a former pastor and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship staff worker.
He has been a teaching fellow
at Princeton
Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board
of Missions,
of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director
of the Christian Center for Asian
Studies, and Director
of the Doctor
of Ministries
Studies, a joint program with San Francisco
Theological Seminary.
Dr. V.J. John is Associate Professor
of New Testament
at Bishop's College, Kolkata, India and Registrar
of the North India Institute
of Post-Graduate
Theological Studies.
Lloyd Geering is a Presbyterian minister and former Professor
of Old Testament
Studies at theological colleges in Brisbane and Dunedia, and Professor
of Religious
Studies at Victorian University in Wellington, New Zealand.
However, defining the Copts concretely is more difficult, explains Mark Nygard, director
of graduate
studies at the Evangelical
Theological Seminary in Cairo (founded in 1863 by American Presbyterian missionaries).
Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination
of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender
studies, and both their style and content seem ill
at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the
theological «default setting.»
William Greenway is assistant professor
of Christian
studies at Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas.
(Dennis J. Preato presented a paper summarizing several
of these
studies at the 2004 Evangelical
Theological Society Meeting, which you can read here.)
I should say
at the outset that none
of this literature is written by scholars trained in New Testament or early Christian
studies teaching
at the major, or even the minor, accredited
theological seminaries, divinity schools, universities, or colleges
of North America or Europe (or anywhere else in the world).
At this point our discussion
of the institutionalization and polity
of a
theological school in chapter 8 comes to bear on the discussion
of a
theological school's course
of study in this chapter.
He is currently working toward a Doctor
of Ministry degree
at Fuller
Theological Seminary in the area
of Missional Leadership,
studying under Alan Roxburgh and Mark Lau Branson.
At the same time, and without modifications
of the «againstness,» a
theological school's
study may be «for» Christian congregations because it is the place where people can be helped to acquire the capacities for
theological judgment that, as we saw, congregations inherently need in their common life.
Dr. Rausch is associate professor
of church history and Judaic
studies at Ashland, (Ohio)
Theological Seminary.
Some historians have traced the roots
of The Controversy to the early 1960s, when conflict over historical «critical
study of the Bible produced a major crisis in the SBC leading to the dismissal
of Ralph Elliott, a professor
of Old Testament
at Midwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.
Henry Simoni - Wastila isa graduate
of the Division
of Religious and
Theological Studies at Boston University.
Rudolf Bultmann — who died on July 30, 1976
at the advanced age
of 91 — was the last
of the
theological giants who grew up in the universities
of the Kaiser's Germany (he began to
study theology in 1903
at 19), and the last
of the prophets who struggled to hear the word
of the Christians» Lord after what had happened in 1914.
Our survey does not,
of course, tell us whether religious
studies has changed the way that «
theological» subjects are taught and
studied at the doctoral level (no doubt it has had some effect).
The Rev. Joseph G. Muthuraj, Ph.D. is Professor
of New Testament and Dean
of Doctoral
Studies at United
Theological College, Bangalore, India.
Rev Dr Calvin Samuel, director
of Wesley
Study Centre, says that
theological colleges typically run
at a loss, enabling them to keep fees low and take students who feel called, regardless
of their financial situations.
Cole Hartin is a lay pastor
at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Islington on the West end
of Toronto, and a PhD candidate in
theological studies at Wycliffe College, University
of Toronto.
And while we are on the subject
of being cognitive: a feature
of normal cognition is a confirmation bias that allows us to be impervious to contradictory evidence and only notice information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs, hence the cherry picking, reinterpreting and mixing
of what is convenient which has led to the approximately 40,000 Christian denominations and organizations in the world (Center for the
Study of Global Christianity (CSGC)
at Gordon - Conwell
Theological Seminary).
Rudolf Bultmann — who died on July 30, 1976
at the advanced age
of 91 — was the last
of the
theological giants who grew up in the universities
of the Kaiser's Germany (he began to
study theology in 1903
at 19), and the last
of the prophets who struggled to hear the word
of...
Before getting to the serious work
of teaching, Bonhoeffer came to America for a year
of study at Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
His initiatives included sending two diocesan priests annually on doctoral
studies mostly to the Jesuit Faculty
of Theology in Brussels; reorganising the seminary in households linked to large city parishes where 10 to 12 seminarians live and undertake pastoral work while attending
theological studies at the Faculte; and, perhaps above all, linking
theological studies firmly to knowledge
of the living Word
of God in Scripture.
Despite the offer
of a place to
study, there was no guarantee that she would be ordained
at the culmination
of the three years
of theological education.
C. Randolph Ross has a degree in analytic philosophy from the University
of Virginia and has spent time in
theological studies at Yale Divinity School.
This is not to deny that those who are educated in biblical
studies and
at the same time enlightened by the Spirit are able to understand the cultural and
theological ramifications
of the revelation
of the Word
of God far better than those who are illiterate in these areas.
Belden C. Lane is professor
of theological studies and American
studies at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
At the UTC seminar, Dayanchand Carr, a teacher at Tamil Nadu Theological College who has investigated beatings and murders of Dalit Christians, expressed grave suspicion of those who are eager to engage in dialogue with Hindus and Muslims without studying the social implications of these faith
At the UTC seminar, Dayanchand Carr, a teacher
at Tamil Nadu Theological College who has investigated beatings and murders of Dalit Christians, expressed grave suspicion of those who are eager to engage in dialogue with Hindus and Muslims without studying the social implications of these faith
at Tamil Nadu
Theological College who has investigated beatings and murders
of Dalit Christians, expressed grave suspicion
of those who are eager to engage in dialogue with Hindus and Muslims without
studying the social implications
of these faiths.
At a time when
theological educators fear being dictated to by financial considerations, the faculties in this
study emerge as fully in control
of education.
and Political Expectations Roy J. Enquist, now on leave from Texas Lutheran College to teach
at a seminary in South Africa, assisted me with the translation, and the volume will carry an introduction by John M. Stumme
of St. Olaf College, who made an intensive
study of this book and its milieu as part
of his doctoral
studies at Union
Theological Seminary, New York, and
at the Free University
of Berlin.
John Knox was Baldwin Professor
of Sacred Literature
at Union
Theological Seminary from 1943 and director
of studies from 1945 to 1957.
An earlier version
of chapter two appeared in Interpretation 26/2 (April 1972), 198 - 209, while chapter four has drawn on materials originally appearing in «Lionel S. Thornton and Process Christology,» Anglican
Theological Review 55/4 (October 1973), 479 - 83; «The Incarnation as a Contingent Reality: A Reply to Dr. Pailin,» Religious
Studies 8/2 (June 1972), 169 - 73; «The Possibilities for Process Christology,» Encounter 35/4 (Winter 1974), 281 - 94; and «
Theological Reflections on Extra-Terrestrial Life,» originally given as the Faculty Research Lecture for the Spring
of 1968
at Raymond College
of the University
of the Pacific, Stockton, California, and published in The Raymond Review 2/2 (Fall 1968), 1 - 14.
According to the Center for the
Study of Global Christianity
at Gordon - Conwell
Theological Seminary who published the Status
of Global Mission, the numbers were $ 35 billion in fraud in 2012 and $ 23 billion given to global foreign missions, with financial crime
at churches estimated to hit $ 60 billion in 2025 if the same trends continue.
At the same time many
of them are oppressed by the feeling that
theological study does not sufficiently consider the changes that have taken place in human thought and behavior in the course
of a revolutionary century.
Eight years
of experiment and
study as a professor
of religion and the church
at Emory University's Candler School
of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to
theological education as the human body is to medical education.»
Almost every department
of theological study is involved
at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images
of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms
of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media
of the time.
The current division
of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological En
theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old
Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological En
Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology
of the Word,
of teaching office,
of church and ministry, if not discredited, are
at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many
of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this
Theological En
Theological Encyclopedia.
He has served as hospital chaplain, parish priest, Dean
of Studies at Oscott seminary and vicargeneral
of Shrewsbury diocese, and is a popular speaker
at catechetical events and
at theological conferences.
If you are
at all interested in learning more about how and why people who love Jesus — why long time faithful disciples who have a high view
of Scripture with a deeply Christian ethic around sexuality — are arriving
at this conclusion, I would commend to you a season
of bible
study and
theological reading and prayer in company with the Holy Spirit and the body
of Christ.
Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical
Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns
of Belief
at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review
of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church
of Christ, 1983), part
of a denomination - wide
study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church
of Christ; David O. Moberg, `'
Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics
of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory
Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
Study,» Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1
Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific
Study of Religion, 1
Study of Religion, 1974).
Georgia Harkness was educated
at Cornell University, Boston University School
of Theology,
studied at Harvard & Yale
theological seminaries and at Union Theological Seminary o
theological seminaries and
at Union
Theological Seminary o
Theological Seminary
of New York.
Most
of them, according to Todd Johnson
of the Center for the
Study of Global Christianity (CSGC)
at Gordon - Conwell
Theological Seminary.