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The Scope of Our Art

The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
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In The Scope of Our Art a diverse group of theological teachers explores the spiritual dimensions of their vocation as religious educators. Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St.Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual formation, religious commitments and teaching practices, and individual and institutional vocation. Contributors: Michael Battle W. Clark Gilpin Paul J. Griffiths L. Gregory Jones Rosemary Skinner Keller Lois Malcolm Claire Mathews McGinnis Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Frederick Norris Stephanie Paulsell Phillis Sheppard Susan Simonaitis Gordon T. Smith Leanne Van Dyk Paul Wadell

Product Details

PublisherWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publish DateOctober 25, 2001
Pages280
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780802849588
Dimensions9.1 X 6.1 X 0.7 inches | 0.9 pounds

Reviews

Parker J. Palmer
"Over the past decade a growing number of college and university professors have been reclaiming teaching as a vocation, but seminary faculty have been strangely silent on the subject. The Scope of Our Art breaks that silence with eloquence and power. I believe it will be regarded as a landmark book for years to come. This superb set of essays by some of our finest theological educators should spark a life-giving conversation about teaching and learning in the seminaries -- where vocation as embodied by the faculty of today helps give shape to the vocation of ministry in the church of tomorrow."

Richard A. Rosengarten
"Theological educators both present and future will profit greatly from this volume's cogent and remarkably lucid meditations that limn the personal, pedagogical, and institutional dimensions of a fraught but absolutely crucial endeavor. Jones and Paulsell have accomplished the unusual feat of coaxing real unity of focus out of genuine and lasting diversity of experience. The resulting volume is rich in perspective but carries real cumulative heft; it is not incidental that it thus testifies persuasively to the challenging, vital, and important work of freestanding theological seminaries and university-related divinity schools."

Donald Senior, C.P.
"For anyone who has been or aspires to be a teacher of theology, reading this book will be like the refreshment of a spring breeze. Discussions of pedagogy and theological method abound, but rarely does one find such thoughtful and inspiring essays on the vocation of the theological teacher. The authors gathered here -- all skilled and committed to their art -- do all of us a great favor."

Margaret R. Miles
"These challenging and moving essays address everyone who teaches religious studies. They make the point that we are all student-teachers, perennially learning the quality of attentiveness that characterizes good teaching."

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