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Pedagogy for personal transformation: Faith development in the context of a Scottish Baptist College
Get PDFThis paper explores aspects of the personal transformation of students through theological education, (i) by proposing a theological interpretation based on the perspective of convictional theology; and (ii) by offering insights arising from Transactional Analysis on how students can be moved to a mature phase of life and faith development
Theological proficiency and the formation of Incumbents
Get PDFThis paper makes the case for maintaining high standards in professional learning in education for ministry. Central to this, it argues, is the need to partner with reputable higher education institutions in the delivery of quality-assured training in theology and allied disciplines
Poetry, Paradox and the Psalms
Get PDFThis paper considers the use of paradox in poetry generally, before going on to look specifically at how it is used in the Book of Psalms and in poetry relating to or influenced by the Psalms. It focusses particularly on the historical influence that the Psalms had on Scottish writers, paradox in twentieth-century Scottish poetry, and how the poets of today use paradox in work that references or that to some extent is inspired by the Psalms
The Way as the Goal: Animating the Medieval Pilgrim Route in Postmodern Switzerland
Get PDFWith the ever-growing net of cultural-touristic holiday routes in Switzerland, people are becoming more and more tired of impersonal travel and aimless wandering. While some are still satisfied with the commonplace phrase “the way as a goal,” others look for more meaning in their favorite activity. Here comes pilgrimage as an ideal combination of bodily and spiritual search. But is a leap from “tourist” to “pilgrim” realistic and how can it help to replenish one’s Christian faith? A project of two Swiss missional organizations was set exactly for this purpose: to animate the life of faith of the post-modern seekers of truth
OPEN SECRET: MACHADO DE ASSIS AND THE ANTIVIVISECTION MOVEMENT
Get PDFAn analogy between the biomedical practice of vivisection and the contemporary, literary realism of the second half of the 19th century was advanced by Menke (2000), when examining the literary project of George Elliot and her pro-vivisection partner, George Henry Lewes. According to Menke, both biomedical and literary practices sprang from the same impulse—a drive to examine the internal and/or deep causes of phenomena, be they of body or soul. Realist analysis would, then, stand as the functional equivalent of the vivisectionist’s scalpel, dissecting the hidden causes of social and psychological processes. In fact, the argument was not alien to the 19th century, for Zola had already claimed the link between literature and experimental science in his essay “Le Roman Expérimental”(1880), taking the physiologist Claude Bernard as his source and model. No doubt, “looking through”—the quest for the hidden, the unconfessable and, as a rule, the sordid in social and personal lives—seems to be the self-imposed task of 19th century realist and naturalist authors, running in parallel with the biomedical experimental model. As de Fontenay (1998) put it, vivisection was indeed the epitome of “looking through” in Western modernity