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Symbols of Heritage and Hope
Full text linkWhat, then, is our task today? ITC is a community of faith and learning. We bear the responsibility to clarify our heritage as a foundation for future hope. In other words, we must interpret our heritage of what God has done in our midst to see clearly where God is leading us in the present and future. This is the very heart and soul of ITC, and I invite you to explore the theme, “Symbols of Heritage and Hope.” In pursuing this theme, particular persons, ideas, and events emerge that characterize or symbolize life within the community. We sense immediately, however, that we are concerned with more than the Association of Theological Schools, reports of an economically viable operation, increasing enrollment, notable curriculum and faculty, and uplifting and inspiring worship. We are reaffirming our human response to God’s initiative in God’s continuing work of creation
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1998
No full textJournal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 199
Introduction: Personhood in African-American Pastoral Care
Full text linkPersonhood has been a major theme in the education of pastoral care givers and counselors since the advent of the clinical pastoral paradigm. The theme of personhood has emphasized the “being" of the pastor more than the pastor’s “doing." Personhood has become synonymous with being, and the care giver has developed authentic relational presence as the major vehicle for caring. Related to the notion of being and relational presence is the concept of the emotional, spiritual, and interpersonal maturity of the carer. This concept of maturation gives added meaning to personhood
Partnership: A Paradigm for Pastoral Counseling with African Americans
Full text linkTom Pugh understood his vocation, to mediate God’s saving grace by helping people develop personhood through relationship. He believed that every person “needs a meaningful relationship with a trusted friend to receive help in becoming the person he is capable of becoming.” Pastoral counseling is one of the forms such a relationship may take. It is a relationship among the person seeking counseling, the counselor, and the Creator. Further, it is an interactive process, “a mutual, dynamic and responsive quest,” toward wholeness and healing. Finally, Pugh suggests that pastoral counseling is a context, a “protected environment..in which an individual in need may be taught at his own rate of speed how to become a real person.
Books and Articles on African-American Worship: An Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis revised and updated annotated bibliography includes books, articles, and journals on or about African and African-American Worship from the plethora of published sources currently available. In addition to the theology and practice of worship, this list includes published works on music for worship and homiletics directly related to African-American worship traditions
Black Theological Education: Its Context, Content and Conduct
Full text linkWith the founding of Wilberforce University and Ashmun Institute, now Lincoln University, Black theological education in institutional form appeared upon the American scene with great significance. For prior to this time, efforts at the general and theological education of slaves and “free Negroes” were fragmented and whimsical, dependent upon the goodwill of a particular slaveholder or an advocate of abolition. With the founding of these schools, seminaries and departments of religion were included in the curriculum of practically every Black college in America. Indeed, these schools were established for the catechetical training of Black religious leaders
An Invitation to Share the Dream
Full text linkI want to share with you the dreams over the last two years by every constituency of this Institution in our Self-Study. We analyzed ourselves in every way by reviewing our purpose, our life together, our faculty, staff, board, students, graduates, denominationalrelationships, finances, library. We turned all the stones. Having done this, what we said about ourselves was scrutinized by the Association of Theological Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. These are the same accrediting agencies that examine Vanderbilt, Duke, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Claremont—indeed, all accredited seminaries in the United States and Canada
Walk as Children of Light Ephesians 5:6-14
No full textIt is my pleasure to welcome each of you to this academic year, 1985-86. This is an historic period which will engage all of us faculty, administration and students—for the challenge of implementing a new curriculum. This improved learning process envisions several features: First, it integrates all of the theological disciplines so that your education is holistic. Second, through the “Foundations for Ministry” experience, you will be equipped to explore the depths ofyour religious inquiry. Third, this curriculum is constructed to enable you and the faculty to evaluate your readiness for ministry. Fourth, your presence here as prospective leaders is conceived to help you “walk as children of light.
Viewing Life from High Places Psalm 139:1-18, Luke 19:1-10
Full text linkThe word had spread! Jesus would pass through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem for the concluding events of his earthly life. Jericho, seventeen miles northeast of Jerusalem, was the oldest city in all of ancient Palestine, and its founding around 7800 B.C. made it one of the oldest in the entire world. The crowds thronged the streets where Jesus was to pass but seeing him was difficult except by those in front
Book Reviews
Full text linkThe following five essays are reviews of Caine Hope Felder, Ed. Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991)