Beyond 2000: The Global World and Theological Education

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Judith A. Berling
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Denominational Identity ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Global World

This article offers an outline of the major challenges to theological education at the end of the millennium. The challenge of religious pluralism and the problem of denominational identity are given particular attention. Future theological education is anticipated also to demand greater attention to a new sense of tradition and identity formation. Finally, local experience and changes in culture and society have been too long ignored in theological education and need to be made part of the foundations of future teaching.

Melkites, Mutakallim?n and al-Ma’m?n: Depicting the Religious Other in Medieval Arabic Dialogues

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bertaina
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Dialogical Approach ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Religious Others ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
Religious Worldviews

The article describes a literary dialogue said to have occurred in 829/214 between the Arab Melkite Christian bishop Theodore Ab? Qurra, several Muslim scholars, and the caliph al-Ma’m?n. The text contains two types of dialogue: Ab? Qurra versus the Muslim scholars and Ab? Qurra with al-Ma’m?n. The former is distinguished by its antagonism on both sides, while the latter is noted for its polite discourse. The evidence indicates that the Muslim caliph al-Ma’m?n held an admired place in the Melkite Christian community’s memory. The author’s analysis concludes that the dialogue presupposes Christian Arab identity was integrated into the dominant Islamic culture in a symbiotic relationship that recognized the reality of religious pluralism and disparate truth claims. The author also argues that the text placed value on the dialogical approach as a process of identity formation by constructing boundaries with religious others while simultaneously internalizing these other religious worldviews.

The Construction of Public Theology: An Ethnographic Study of the Relationship between the Theological Academy and Local Clergy in South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Day
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Lay Leaders ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article presents findings of research conducted in the summer of 2006, and it focuses on how public theology is understood in the academy in relation to the realities encountered by clergy and lay leaders in a challenging ministry context. Through ethnographic research based in South Africa, I examined the relationship between congregations confronting the AIDS epidemic and widespread poverty, and the construction of public theology in the theological academy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The research asked: what is the nature of the correspondence between 'formal' public theology and the local, 'lived' theologies of those doing ministry in South Africa; how does local experience influence the ways that the academy prepares leaders for public ministry. The findings from this study, as discussed in this article, have implications for theological education, in terms of enhancing the public orientation of institutions and understanding the link between context and curriculum.

Finding yourself in awe: The relationship between awe and identity formation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen D. McNeil ◽  
Craig L. Anderson ◽  
Dacher Keltner
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
The Relationship
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