THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE TIMES
E D U C AT I O N
Notes of a Native Daughter
Beyond Profession
Testifying in Theological Education
Keri Day is associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion at Princeton Theological Seminary. 978-0-8028-7882-3 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available June 2021
The Next Future of Theological Education
Keri Day
Daniel O. Aleshire
In Notes of a Native Daughter, Keri Day testifies to structural inequalities and broken promises of inclusion through the eyes of a black woman who experiences herself as both stranger and friend to prevailing models of theological education. Inviting the reader into her religious world—a world that is African American and, more specifically, Afro-Pentecostal— she not only uncovers the colonial impulses of theological education in the United States but also proposes that the lived religious practices and commitments of progressive AfroPentecostal communities can help the theological academy decolonize and reenvision multiple futures.
Daniel Aleshire, the longtime executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, offers a brief account of how theological education has changed in the past and how it might change going forward. He begins by reflecting on his own extensive experience with theological education and then turns to reviewing its history, dating back to the seventeenth century. Amid this historical survey, he uncovers an older model of the field that he believes must become dominant once again—what he calls formational theological education— and explores educational practices that this model would require.
Daniel O. Aleshire served as executive director of the Association of Theological Schools from 1998 to 2017. 978-0-8028-7875-5 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available
Transforming Fire
Atando Cabos Latinx Contributions to Theological Education
Imagining Christian Teaching
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Mark D. Jordan
Mark D. Jordan is the R. R. Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. 978-0-8028-7903-5 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available
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How should Christian teaching happen, especially in this time of significant change to theological education as an institution? Mark Jordan addresses this question by first allowing various depictions and instances of Christian teaching from literature to speak for themselves before meditating on what these illustrative examples might mean for Christian pedagogy. Each textual scene he shares is juxtaposed with a contrasting scene to capture the pluralistic possibilities in the art of teaching a faith that is so often rooted in paradox. He exemplifies forms of teaching that operate beyond the boundaries of scholarly books and discursive lectures to disrupt the normative Western academic approach of treating theology as a body of knowledge to be transmitted merely through language.
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Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is a nationally recognized authority on Hispanic Bible Institutes. She now leads a major grant project for the Asociación para La Educación Teológica Hispana. 978-0-8028-7901-1 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available August 2021
Latinx Protestantism is a rapidly growing element of American Christianity—in both Pentecostal and non-charismatic forms. How should institutions of theological education in the United States welcome and incorporate the gifts of these populations into their work? In this book, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier takes stock of the cabos sueltos— loose ends—left over from the history of Latinx Christianity, including the ways the rise of Pentecostalism disrupted existing power structures and opened up new ways for Latinx people to assert agency. Then, atando cabos—tying these loose ends together—she reflects on how a new paradigm, centered on the work of the Holy Spirit, can serve to decolonize theological education going forward, bringing about an in-breaking of the kingdom of God.
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