Authors: Rodney L. Petersen (Editor), Nancy M. Rourke
ISBN-13: 9780802849649, ISBN-10: 0802849644
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This volume presents a compendium of different perspectives by leading theological educators on what constitutes theological literacy in the twenty-first century. Structured around the key emphases that have shaped a traditional curriculum in theological education, these insightful essays explore the nature of theology, theology and institutional expression, the practice of hermeneutics in today's context, the rhetoric of theology, and the future of theological education. Throughout their essays, the contributors specifically address or draw from a wide range of confessional stances, making this book valuable to readers from every church tradition.
What constitutes theological literacy in the new millennium? Scholars such as Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza and David Tracy discuss this weighty question in Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century, a heavy but thoughtful collection of essays. The book's most helpful aspect is its diversity of Christian traditions: there are discussions of evangelical, Orthodox, Catholic and mainline Protestant views here, and contributors also weigh in about Hispanic, African-American and feminist hermeneutics. The essayists' understanding of what is required for theological literacy may be a bit inflated (how many people in the pews spout five-gallon words such as "postcoloniality" or "grandiloquent"?), but academics will appreciate the collection's depth and currency. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Acknowledgments | ||
Foreword | ||
I | Theology: What is the Real Thing? | 1 |
1 | On Theological Education: A Reflection | 13 |
2 | Theology and Theologians: An Orthodox Perspective | 23 |
3 | On the Complexity of Theological Literacy | 39 |
4 | Renewing Ways of Life: The Shape of Theological Education | 55 |
5 | Identity, Formation, Dignity: The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence upon Jewish and Christian Understandings of Personhood | 68 |
II | Theology and Institutional Expression | 93 |
6 | Where Catholicism Has Been, and Where It Is Going | 110 |
7 | The Theological Is Also Personal: The "Place" of Evangelical Protestant Women in the Church | 134 |
8 | Public Works: Bridging the Gap between Theology and Public Ethics | 150 |
9 | Christian Scholarship and the Demographic Transformation of the Church | 166 |
III | Hermeneutics: How We Understand and Interpret the Bible | 185 |
10 | Theological Literacy for the Twenty-first Century | 200 |
11 | The Ethos of Interpretation: Biblical Studies in a Postmodern and Postcolonial Context | 211 |
12 | Living in the Hyphen: Theological Literacy from an Hispanic American Perspective | 229 |
13 | Reading the World Religiously: Literate Christianity in a World of Many Religions | 242 |
IV | The Rhetoric of Theology | 257 |
14 | Healing Traumatic Memories: A Spiritual Journey | 270 |
15 | A Prophetic Religious Education for Y2K and Beyond: And Black Boys Shall See Visions | 292 |
16 | Theological Literacy and Fluency in a New Millennium: A Pastoral Theological Perspective | 311 |
17 | Theological Literacy: Some Catholic Reflections | 325 |
18 | Theological Literacy: Problem and Promise | 335 |
19 | Wisdom for Life: The Horizon of Theological Literacy | 352 |
V | Theological Literacy in Seminary and University | 371 |
20 | Theological Education as Formation for Ministry | 382 |
21 | The Classic Idea of the University: Its Relevance in the Twenty-first Century | 392 |
Contributors | 404 | |
Index of Names and Subjects | 414 | |
Index of Scripture References | 420 |