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Loving the questions: finding food for the future of theological education in the Lexington Seminar
Get PDFAlthough it ran for more than ten years and involved more than 200 faculty from forty-four ATS member schools, the findings of the Lexington Seminar have not been engaged as robustly as they could be in facing current challenges. This essay collates the experiences of the Lexington Seminar with recent educational literature to suggest a range of options in faculty development for meeting the adaptive challenges facing schools, particularly in terms of shifting dynamics of authority, authenticity, and agency
The pastoral practice of Christian hospitality as presence in Muslim-Christian engagement: contextualizing the classroom
Get PDFThis project involved inviting graduate-level classes to contextualize their study in relationship with a specific Lutheran congregation in an urban and multifaith neighborhood. In doing so, the Christian practice of hospitality—especially understood in terms of presence—was particularly pertinent. Learning took place in context, far more efficiently and effectively, through engagement with rather than teaching about each other. Ultimately the project members experienced learning in the presence of other faiths as deepening one\u27s own faith, while inviting genuine respect for other faiths
An Effort to Demythologize Missional Pedagogy in an Attempted Decolonizing of Biblical Studies With a View Toward a Constructive Alternative
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