scholarly journals Bleeding Women in Sacred Spaces: Negotiating Theological Belonging in the ‘Pathway’ to Priesthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 096673502110554
Author(s):  
Eve Parker
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ongoing Project

This article focuses on the theological journeying of women ordinands in the Church of England, who have had to negotiate their belonging in the ‘pathway’ to Priesthood in ordination training. Attention is given to the extent to which the personhood of women is enabled to truly flourish in a theological education system that is dominated by men and predominantly patriarchal and Western theologising. It suggests that a gendered politics of belonging has been used and maintained through the socio-religious construct of ‘shame’ in order to maintain the boundaries of belonging within the formation process, and therefore calls for an en-gendered ‘pathway to the priesthood’. This is exemplified in a re-reading of the bleeding woman who dares to challenge the hegemonies of patriarchy and purity by touching the cloak of Christ in Luke 8:40-48. This research is part of an ongoing project with Common Awards at Durham University that explores barriers to belonging in theological education for those in training for ordination. It has therefore received ethical approval for interviews and participant observations.

The Ambiguity of Theological Education: Angles on Integration

Ecclesiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Andrew Davison
Keyword(s):  
Theological Education ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Clergy Education ◽  
The Church

This paper arises out of contemporary pressures on theological education in the Church of England, and responses currently being proposed. It works with the ambiguity of the phrase ‘theological education’, which applies both to the ongoing education of the church and to a more mission-related task of explaining the faith to the wider society. Both are important, as is recognition that the theological education of the church involves laity as well as clergy. Since clergy education is principally in view in the current changes, a discussion of curriculum suggests a broad coverage that attends to relations between topics, combined with some opportunity for exploration at greater depth. Community is stressed as centrally important, with the impartation of a transforming message happening within a community itself oriented to transformation. Such a community can be the nursery for a confidence based on embracing the risk that the faith is true.

Theological Formation in the Church of ‘the Last Men and Women’

Ecclesiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Theological Education ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Church

Every worldview has attendant disciplines. Late capitalism, as much to any Christian community, has its habits shaped by distinctive patterns of desire. Down the centuries, Christians have sought ways to live that line up with the vitality of their faith. We chart a course here through Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer and Hauerwas. The route is distinctively shaped by pre-Reformation concerns as well as by Protestant ones, and in this it is deeply ecumenical. What, we ask, represents the excellence of the monastery as a community of formation in the present day? The answer will not necessarily be any literal monasticism but it will bear a strongly analogous relationship to it. We see this, not least for the Church of England, in the monastic roots of much of its approach to communal theological education and the question of our present willingness, or not, to live by its lessons.

Conflicting Paradigms in Theological Education for Public Ministry in the Church of England: Issues for Church and Academy

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Williams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Ministerial Education ◽  
The Church ◽  
Academic Study

AbstractOver recent years the Church of England has been introducing university validated programmes for the ministerial education of its clergy. By drawing on the experience of one region in delivering such a programme, this article identifies a number of tensions in the church’s relationship with higher education and explores how critical academic study might be better understood as a resource for ministerial formation. The article also raises issues for the validating universities arising out of their partnership with church institutions, and argues that both church and academy alike could benefit from a reappraisal of their aims and values as public institutions in the light of their shared involvement in theological education for the church’s public ministers.

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 11th July 1982

Moreana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (Number 157- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
John McConica
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

During the period in which these papers were given, there were great achievements on the ecumenical scene, as the quest to restore the Church’s unity was pursued enthusiastically by all the major Christiandenominations. The Papal visit of John Paul II to England in 1982 witnessed a warmth in relationships between the Church of England and the Catholic Church that had not been experienced since the early 16th century Reformation in England to which More fell victim. The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission was achieving considerable doctrinal consensus and revisionist scholarship was encouraging an historical review by which the faithful Catholic and the confessing Protestant could look upon each other respectfully and appreciatively. It is to this ecumenical theme that James McConica turns in his contribution.

THEORIES OF THE MISSIONARY VOCATION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN POST-SOVIET PROTESTANTISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Valentyn Syniy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
General Recognition ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Formal Construction

It is emphasized that the involvement of missionary theology in the discussion of ways to develop spiritual education allowed post-soviet Protestantism to successfully overcome differences in the vision of the formal construction of education, and then move on to discussions about its content. There was a gradual overcoming of modern individualism, the growing role of communities, the replacement of monologue models of mission with dialogical ones. The idea of the seminary as a community that is not self-sufficient, but serves the church as a community, has gained general recognition. The church also came to be understood as serving an eschatological ideal community similar to the Trinity community. The formation of community and dialogical models of missionary and educational activity allows Ukrainian Protestantism to effectively adapt to the realities of the beginning of the 21st century and to be proactive in today's society.

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