Challenging Tradition: Innovation in Advanced Theological Education (ICETE Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783684135 ISBN 13: 9781783684137

Publisher: Langham Global Library, 2018

Synopsis

The surge of theological education in the rapidly growing church of the Majority World has highlighted the inadequacy of traditional Western methods of thinking and learning to fully accomplish the task at hand. The limitations of current theological education are embodied in the formation and assessment of the master’s or doctoral dissertation; processes that follow a linear-empiricist tradition developed in the West and exported to the Majority World. Challenging Tradition: Innovation in Advanced Theological Studies highlights the need for these traditions to be reconsidered in every context throughout the world. Drs Shaw and Dharamraj, with their team of contributors, present innovations in research and documentation that demonstrate how we may better prepare theological leadership through means that are contextually relevant and locally meaningful.

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About the Authors

PERRY SHAW serves as Global Consultant for Local Leaders International and is author of Transforming Theological Education (Langham Global Library, 2022). Prior to moving to Australia, Perry and his family served from 1990 to 2019 in the Middle East. During the 1990s, he helped to establish extension centres in Syria for the PTEE (the Programme for Theological Education by Extension). He then taught at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, during the early years of the millennium, joining the faculty of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut in 2007, where he served as professor of education and academic dean. While at ABTS, Perry was closely involved in the development of their highly innovative curriculum, while also becoming increasingly involved in international consultancy for theological education. Perry has authored a number of TEE texts, and also published numerous articles in the fields of theological education, intercultural studies, and Christian leadership.

HAVILAH DHARAMRAJ is Academic Dean and Head of the Department of Old Testament at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, India. She has a doctoral degree from the University of Durham, UK, in narrative theology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Langham Global Library
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783684135
• ISBN 13: 9781783684137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508
• Editor: Shaw Perry, Dharamraj Havilah