Sentences with phrase «theological school faculty»

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.

The following paper was delivered in 1990 at a conference of theological school faculty.

Between these two developments, theological school faculties are now far more strongly professionalized than they were when Niebuhr wrote, and the institutional framework and reference point for this professionalization lies entirely outside theological schools.

Not exact matches

A final goal was to find ways to enhance the Wesleyan character of theological education at our traditionally Methodist school, which has an increasingly ecumenical student body and a decreasingly Methodist faculty.

The fact that other members of the Divinity faculty and their colleagues in other theological schools who had read the book felt likewise lessened the embarrassment, but it hardly lessened the irritation.

But the worry that the pool of future faculty will be dominated by graduates of religious studies programs whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions of theological study and who would not want to be associated with such schools is misplaced.

Will theological schools have the faculty they need for the future, faculty who will shape the educational mission of the institutions and make their programs more influential?

Wheeler cites the research done by Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education in intensively examining theological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currentlTheological Education in intensively examining theological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currentltheological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currently retiring.

In 1970 among schools in the Association of Theological Schools there were 12.4 students per full - time faculty member; in 1990 there were 22.3 students for each full - time faculty schools in the Association of Theological Schools there were 12.4 students per full - time faculty member; in 1990 there were 22.3 students for each full - time faculty Schools there were 12.4 students per full - time faculty member; in 1990 there were 22.3 students for each full - time faculty member.

We also interviewed cohorts of junior faculty in three theological schools over a three - year period, as well as assorted junior faculty in other seminaries.

We began the study because so many people — seminary deans and presidents in particular — told us that they were worried about whether theological schools would be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who soon will be retiring.

I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.

Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the work of Jewish evangelism in their missionary obedience.»

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.

This was the way it was for me when I was guest professor in 1963 at the University of Chicago and ran into an entire school of Whitehead adherents in the theological faculty (not, I...

The participants in the discussion have largely, although not entirely, been white male faculty members of theological schools that can fairly be described as «mainline Protestant» schools.

Both types of excellent schooling are deeply institutionalized in the practices that constitute American theological education of all sorts; neither one can simply be abandoned by a faculty vote!

They are all «church schools» rather than state institutions in distinction from many European theological faculties; but the word «church» may mean denomination.

All but one of the schools of the American Association of Theological Schools and many non-member institutions have supplied them with detailed information on organization, finances, enrollment, faculty, curriculum, et schools of the American Association of Theological Schools and many non-member institutions have supplied them with detailed information on organization, finances, enrollment, faculty, curriculum, et Schools and many non-member institutions have supplied them with detailed information on organization, finances, enrollment, faculty, curriculum, et cetera.

It is relatively uncontroversial to say descriptively, for example, that theological school students and faculty come from a variety of social and economic backgrounds, or that they may exhibit a variety of ways of concretely practicing the Christian faith.

German theological faculties are thus much more similar to sophisticated denominational seminaries than they are to American divinity schools at private universities.

In the decades from the 1880s until World War I such schools rapidly distanced themselves from most substantive connections with their church or religious heritages, dropping courses with explicit theological or biblical reference and laicizing their boards, faculties, and administrations.

Unlike theological schools in the United States, however, these university faculties are closely tied to the Protestant and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.

Appointed to the faculty of Colgate Rochester Divinity School where he would soon assume the school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of ChristiSchool where he would soon assume the school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christischool's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christianity.

This works against the idea that the faculties of theological schools have more in common with one another in a cross-disciplinary way than they have in common with colleagues in the same disciplines outside theological schools.

Those who engage in theological schooling, students and faculty, must themselves be engaged in these more inclusive activities also, not because we learn by doing, but because «we do not learn the meaning of deeds without doing».

Faculty in those fields who are members of departments of religious studies receive their doctoral education in the same graduate schools as do faculty in theological schools, and faculty move back and forth between the two contexts.

These associations, rather than faculty members» own theological schools, are the institutions by which professional academic status and recognition are awarded and acknowledged.

They collected and published otherwise unavailable comparative information about Protestant theological schools» student bodies, including their educational backgrounds, programs of study, finances, and governance, and also about these schools» faculty, including their educational backgrounds, teaching methods, religious life, etc..

A scholar - theologian who once taught on a theological faculty and later went to a department of religion in a secular university has written poignantly about his pilgrimage through the kind of identity crises I have just described: one who in college had a kind of neo-fundamentalist faith, went through graduate school, established peer relationships with scholars, and then found himself in a crisis of belief, now speaks about the morality of belief — the importance of being true and honest in what one can actually avow and affirm with integrity.

The book grew out of discussions about theological schooling within the faculty of his own theological school.

Clearly, the average theological school is not awash in funds available for discretionary spending, for covering the start - up costs of major new academic «experiments,» for providing new student services, or even for providing adequate support services for administration and faculty.

The model of excellent theological schooling symbolized by the inclusion of a faculty of theology in the University of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous critical research.

While in private practice in St. Paul, MN, he received faculty appointments to the University of Minnesota Medical School and Bethel Theological Seminary.