Shaping beloved community : multicultural theological education / edited by David V. Esterline and Ogbu U. Kalu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esterline, David.

Kalu, Ogbu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Study and teaching.

Theology.

Multicultural education.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Multiculturalism.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

viii, 271 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [2006]

Summary:

While many seminaries and divinity schools have expressed their commitment to create diverse communities of faculty and students, fewer schools have developed methods of learning and teaching that are appropriate for these communities. To help theological institutions and administrators continue to develop leadership for a church with true multicultural understanding, this collection of essays presents the theological, pedagogical, and disciplinary framework on which multicultural theological education is built.

Written by faculty members at McCormick Theological Seminary, a school renowned for its commitment to diversity, these essays provide examples of new ways of learning and teaching that will help shape and sustain multicultural theological education. This important volume puts forward practices in multicultural theological education that move beyond diversity to the shaping of community and new ways of learning for both students and faculty, making it a vital resource for all those committed to the progress of theological education in a multicultural world.

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical and Institutional Frameworks:

1. Multicultural theological education and leadership for a church without walls / David V. Esterline

2. Toward an intercultural approach to theological education for ministry / José Irizarry

3. Multicultural theological education: on doing difference differently / Anna Case-Winters

4. Resources for intercultural transformation of theological education from the Latino/a margins / Luis R. Rivera-Rodriguez

5. Libraries and multicultural theological education: beyond nostalgia / Kenneth Sawyer

6. From sideline to center: teaching and learning for a racially and culturally diverse church / Deborah Flemister Mullen

Part II. Biblical and Theological Studies:

7. Of every race and people / Cynthia M. Campbell

8. Teaching the Bible in a global context / Robert L. Brawley

9. The Tower of Babel and cultural diversity: a case study on engaging diversity in the classroom / Theodore Hiebert (instructor), Jennifer Blandford, Andrew Davis, Hardy Kim (students)

10. Reading the Bible from a postcolonial perspective / Jae Won Lee

Part III. Ministerial Formation:

11. Teaching pastoral care and counseling in the cross-cultural classroom / Homer U. Ashby Jr.

12. "La gran encisera": Barcelona and education for interfaith ministry in the shadow of terror / Robert A. Cathey

13. Open worship: strategies of hospitality and questions of power / Gary Rand

14. The formation of ministerial authority and identity: cross-cultural experiential education /Joanne Lindstrom

15. Teaching afresh the history of global Christianity / DAvid D. Daniels III

16. Multicultural theological education in a non-Western context: Africa, 1975-2000 / Ogbu U. Kalu

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and indexes.

ISBN:

0664229379

9780664229375

OCLC:

70158515