Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry: The Search for Integration in Theology

ISBN-13: 9781032180090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

John E. Paver

Opis

A major and continuing problem for theological education and the practice of Christian ministry is how to best achieve a genuine integration between theory and practice, theology and experience. John Paver maintains that theological reflection, beginning with experience, is a method of integration and that pastoral supervision is a vehicle for theo

Recenzje

’... illuminating and provocative...’ Theological Book Review ’Paver's candid reflections raise questions about the practice of the churches more generally. In a world where many of the old religious landmarks and certainties have either disappeared or else seem to be relevant to fewer and fewer people,is there any possibility of finding a basis for striking up dialogue between religious traditions and people's everyday experience? If Paver's own experience is typical, and it certainly finds echoes with this reviewer's work, neither the churches nor the academy seem greatly concerned to address the question. This makes the book both insightful and uncomfortable.’ Theology

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Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry

O autorze

John E. Paver is Professor Emeritus at the Uniting Church Theological College, Melbourne, Australia.