Contextuality issues are prominent among Indian theologians today, as I found out some months ago at an intense, weeklong seminar hosted by the United
Theological College in Bangalore.
For instance, the «Final Statement on «the International Consultation on Mission and Unity»», a consultation jointly sponsored by the NCCI and the Gurukul
Lutheran Theological College, defines mission as «a process of ethical transformation characterised by the availability of justice, freedom and dignity for all.»
One of the outcomes of being at
theological college for me is my belief changing form thinking I knew it all to knowing that however much I do know, it is minuscule theologically and in other ways to everything that can be known.
Wood says, «When I was Principal of Oak
Hill Theological College in 1961 I would ask how many newcomers to the College had come to faith following Billy's crusades and there were never less than 10 %.»
Warren S Brown is a professor of psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary (a multi-denominational
evangelical theological college in the US) and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.
The four speakers represented four Christian traditions: Simon Chan, Ernest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology at of
Trinity Theological College in Singapore, one of the world's leading Pentecostal theologians; Anglican theologian Ephraim Radner; Fr.
Shoki Coe (Chang Hui Hwang), 1914 - 1988, former principal of
Tainan Theological College in Taiwan, was my mentor and spiritual pastor for three decades.
This essay was presented to the faculty of the Andhra
Christian Theological College during the academic year 1988 - 1989 on Theology and the Mission of the Church, Hyderabad, 1990.
Protesting too much When I was a student at an
Anglican theological college at Oxford I came across a little saying that transformed my life.
Suzanne Tanzi, a spokeswoman for
Theological College who noted the several scientists who have enrolled there, said scientist - priests are particularly helpful given one of the primary focuses of the current pope, who in fact was once a chemist himself: the environment.
I remember a young priest whom I knew who told me with some pride that he had not «cracked a theological book» (as he phrased it) since he had
left theological college.
Tim worked for two years in Cyprus as a church organist, and studied for a certificate of higher education with the
Open Theological College.
An earlier version was presented at the Faculty Research Seminar of the United
Theological College on November 24, 1999.
«We still need good theology... so we do need
good theological colleges with well - trained, committed faculty members, able to publish and supervise higher research; where academic rigour is maintained and we continue to discern how God's word in the Bible speaks today.
After completing the equivalent of high school, the ministerial student next
attends theological college without attaining a university level bachelor's degree.
A set of vigorous evangelical
theological colleges exist, with theological leaders such as Anthony Thiselton, Jeremy Begbie, Elaine Storkey, Colin Buchanan, Christopher Cocksworth and Tina Baxter.
Moreover, unlike McGrath's biography, which follows Packer's life in chronological terms — from his birth in the English village of Twyning in 1926, to his education at Oxford and teaching tenure in Church of
England theological colleges, to his move to become professor of theology at the newly - founded Regent College in Vancouver and his subsequent prolific output of articles and books and sermons — Ryken's biography aims to be a thematically organized portrait.
Lutheran scholar of the history of Christianity, Jaroslav Pelikan believes all too little reflection on the Cosmic Christ is going on in our
Protestant theological colleges and churches.
He is ordained in the United Methodist Church and has a distinguished career teaching in India at Lucknow Christian College, Lucknow; the Christian Retreat and Study Centre, Rajpur;
Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur; and most recently in Bangalore.
That is the strapline and a part of the DNA of
Regents Theological College, where I did my bachelor's and master's, and certainly reflects my experience.
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.
Part of the reason that liberal churches continue to survive, according to Hayward, is because a proportion of the evangelicals who go to
theological college end up adopting a liberal theology.
St John's joins rank with a number of
other theological colleges whose finances, combined with other pressures, have left them with no option but to implement radical change.
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 faiths.
The result was the expansion of the original lecture into four lectures which in varying forms were delivered as the Lightfoot Lecture for 1964 at the University of Durham, at the
Episcopal Theological College in Edinburgh in 1964, at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury in 1965, and as the Beattie Lectures at the University of the South in the United States in April 1966.
I was only involved in a church for 2 years before going to
theological college where I was encouraged to think for myself where differing theologies and world views existed.