{"id":2670,"date":"2011-10-25T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/does-seminary-have-a-future-an-online-symposium-on-the-future-of-seminary-education.html"},"modified":"2011-10-25T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:56:00","slug":"does-seminary-have-a-future-an-online-symposium-on-the-future-of-seminary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/does-seminary-have-a-future-an-online-symposium-on-the-future-of-seminary-education.html","title":{"rendered":"DOES SEMINARY HAVE A FUTURE?: An Online Symposium on the Future of Seminary Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: verdana;font-size: 13px;line-height: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: 13px;font-style: inherit;line-height: 1.4em;padding-bottom: 1em;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">In recent months, we have been listening to ongoing discussions about the problems and promises of seminary education. Some of the talk is fraught with anxiety, and some of it is filled with hope, but it is all marked by a sharp awareness that seminaries must adapt to an increasingly complex world.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: 13px;font-style: inherit;line-height: 1.4em;padding-bottom: 1em;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">What challenges do seminaries face in the coming years? How are they\u2014and the churches and communities that are the focus of their mission\u2014preparing for those challenges? What signs of transformation can we see as we survey the horizon of theological education? 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