{"id":926,"date":"2014-01-31T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/the-future-of-theological-education.html"},"modified":"2014-01-31T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:56:00","slug":"the-future-of-theological-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/the-future-of-theological-education.html","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Theological Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
A few weeks ago I attended consultation on, among other things, the future of graduate theological education.\u00a0Robert Saler<\/a>, Director of the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs, presented 15 \u201cThesis for Discussion\u201d on the topic. Indeed, Saler elicited some great discussion at the conference and still has me thinking. Here\u2019s how:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
1.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0I am increasingly convinced that the church needs innovative leaders that are\u00a0fully conversant with culture<\/strong>. Or, as Saler put it, \u201cFuture \u2018missionaries\u2019 in the North American context will need to be skilled in the hermeneutics of culture as well as the Christian doctrinal and theological tradition\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Corollary<\/strong>: I remain unconvinced that our seminary faculty should be composed of so many Ph.D.-holding, briefcase-toting, book-writing, Greek-translating, teacher-scholars (YES, I love these folks and, on my best days, seek to be one.) But we need more entrepreneurs on our faculty.\u00a0We need to care about number of retweets and page views as well as academic citations.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
2.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Saler suggested, \u201cIt may be helpful to think of pastors with multiple sources of income, not as \u2018bi-vocational,\u201d but as having ONE vocation LIVED OUT in multiple ways.\u201d Exactly. The point reminded me of a post I wrote back in 2009, \u201cWhy \u2018Bi-Vocational\u2019 is a Dirty Word<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Corollary<\/strong>: I remain curious about to the possibilities of seminaries adding certificate programs in fields beyond the traditional M.Div. For instance, I would have loved to study graphic or web design at Columbia Seminary. If we expect future pastors to have multiple sources of income, our graduate theological education should support and model how.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A few weeks ago I attended consultation on, among other things, the future of graduate theological education.\u00a0Robert Saler, Director of the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs, presented 15 \u201cThesis for Discussion\u201d on the topic. Indeed, Saler elicited some great discussion at the conference and still has me thinking. Here\u2019s how:\u00a0 1.\u00a0\u00a0I am increasingly convinced that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Future of Theological Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A few weeks ago I attended consultation on, among other things, the future of graduate theological education. Robert Saler, Director of the Lilly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/the-future-of-theological-education.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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