Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.1179/ate.9.2.hp430835g071v773
John Valk
Abstract Worldviews are those larger pictures that inform and in turn form our perceptions of reality. They are visions of life as well as ways of life, are individual and personal in nature, yet bind adherents together communally. Coming to understand a worldview can serve to illuminate particular beliefs and values, and may be helpful in a post-Christian, post-modern or even post-secular era filled with religious, spiritual and secular beliefs of various kinds that hold sway today in the public realm. This article looks at Christianity through a worldview lens using an “ultimate/existential questions” framework (who and what are we; meaning and purpose; responsibilities and obligations; discerning right from wrong; power, force or being greater than humans; and life after this life) to get at the heart of some fundamental Christian beliefs and values.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ate.9.1.m522p35378336313
W. Cavalier
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ATE.9.1.N784L542172PL531
S. Nash
Abstract An integral part of theological education for ministry is placement experience. How that learning impacts current and future practice varies widely. In this article I explore a placement undertaken as part of ordination training at Mill Grove, a witnessing ecclesial community which has been a home for over 1,000 children over the past 113 years. I discuss a range of issues relating to placement learning. In exploring the context and then using a version of the pastoral cycle I identify a range of insights and implications for my future practice both as a theological educator and a priest particularly focused around the theme of love.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ate.9.1.x501v82987543120
Darren Cronshaw
Abstract Two challenges facing churches in the West are how to adopt a missional posture to meaningfully engage the broader community, and how to foster genuine spirituality. Western world churches need to engage with a society that is open to spirituality and even inspired by Jesus, but less attracted to church. What does this mean for theological education and how churches train leaders? How can missional spirituality – spirituality that sustains and focuses the mission of the church – be best taught in classes and online? This article addresses these questions by expanding on Robert Banks’s Reenvisioning Theological Education and investigating how spirituality is taught as reflective practice. Reenvisioning theological education and missional spirituality happens best when it cultivates inner contemplation and outer engagement, and when it relates faith to everyday life and local contexts. The article shows how these principles will be the basis of refreshed curriculum design to teach missional spirituality including a new online subject.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ATE.9.1.7N8061730517305J
David Goodbourn
Abstract This article provides a retrospective reflection on a career in adult theological education, highlighting both positive and negative trends in British theological education over the last forty years. Issues covered include the relationship of adult Christian education in the congregation with clergy-training in the higher education sector, the focus on contextuality and theological reflection, the move towards certification and the changes in institutional structure and course delivery.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ATE.9.1.M4X012257645W784
J. Astley, L. Bowman
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ate.9.1.x6541n791g154j04
T. Grey
Abstract The notion of divine “calling” plays a significant part in the narratives of many who seek to take up some form of “ordained” ministry within the Church. This article attempts to explore how the notion of “divine calling” as part of organizational discourse establishes a particular set of relationships between the individual and the organization, and thus contributes to the ways in which individual clergy identity is formed. Through intersecting a situated learning perspective with a Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis I seek to illuminate the particular mechanisms, technologies and strategies that are employed to maintain the existing system and its construction of Salvation Army officer identity in relation to the organization.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ATE.9.1.Q366W100977778J8
Dr Cathy Ross
What do you do to start reading prophetic dialogue reflections on christian mission today? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this prophetic dialogue reflections on christian mission today.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1179/ate.9.1.e5144wwv555t0177
L. Barbu
Abstract In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the spiritual formation of a Christian is the art of seeking holiness and union with God through the ministry of spiritual fatherhood (and motherhood), whereby the spiritual guide rekindles and keeps alive the baptismal grace of the disciple through the mysteries (sacraments) of the Church, God-inspired words and personal example. This article evinces some quintessential aspects of the ancient Christian practices of spiritual direction and formation and their current bearing on adult faith formation in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the focus being on spiritual formation carried out through a Spirit-led spiritual father – spiritual son/daughter relationship. An overview of the tradition is provided, from St Paul through to the monastic tradition, closing with the example of a contemporary model.
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