[PDF] Reimagining Ministerial Formation eBook

Author : David Heywood
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060427

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The Church is currently experiencing a transition in the way it understands and practises both mission and ministry. It is to be outward-looking, engaging with the wider community, involving all its members in mission and clergy are to play the role of enablers and equippers of the ministry of the whole church. However, ministerial formation in colleges and courses throughout the country lags behind this emerging consensus. ‘Theological education’ is still largely based on academic models. Reimagining Ministerial Formation offers a new way forward, where ‘ministry’ comes to be about the whole church, and ministerial formation is about collaboration between clergy and laity. It argues strongly for a shift away from ‘front-loaded’ training, to a new focus on formation as a life-long process.

Author : David Heywood
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060443

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The Church is currently experiencing a transition in the way it understands and practises both mission and ministry. It is to be outward-looking, engaging with the wider community, involving all its members in mission and clergy are to play the role of enablers and equippers of the ministry of the whole church. However, ministerial formation in colleges and courses throughout the country lags behind this emerging consensus. ‘Theological education’ is still largely based on academic models. Reimagining Ministerial Formation offers a new way forward, where ‘ministry’ comes to be about the whole church, and ministerial formation is about collaboration between clergy and laity. It argues strongly for a shift away from ‘front-loaded’ training, to a new focus on formation as a life-long process.

Author : Paul Goodliff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498291236

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In the English-speaking Western world alone, thousands of men and women begin formal training for Christian ministry each year, or informally, seek to equip themselves for pastoral ministry. Over the past fifty years, the ancient world of virtue ethics has been reimagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today, and in this book, it is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that formation by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing out of the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Paul Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be, using a mixture of theological and pastoral inquiry, reflections upon art, and personal story. This book will be of interest to those who are charged with forming the next generation of ministers; but anyone starting out on that journey of formation for ministry will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.

Author : Hahnenberg, Edward P.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158768909X

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A theological and practical exploration of ministry formation in the church today.

Author : David Heywood
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334047765

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This text is a comprehensive introduction to mission and ministry in the contemporary Church which enables students to prepare for ministry in a changing church within a changing world.

Author : Johannes M. Luetz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9811308519

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This book is an arresting interdisciplinary publication on Christian education, comprising works by leading scholars, professionals and practitioners from around the globe. It focuses on the integrated approaches to Christian education that are both theoretically sound and practically beneficial, and identifies innovative pedagogical methods and tools that have been field-tested and practice-approved. It discusses topics such as exploring programmes and courses through different lenses; learning challenges and opportunities within organisational management; theology of business; Christian models of teaching in different contexts; job preparedness; developing different interpretive or meaning-making frameworks for working with social justice, people with disability, non-profit community organisations and in developing country contexts. It offers graduate students, teachers, school administrators, organisational leaders, theologians, researchers and education practitioners a fresh and inspiring reimagining of Christian education perspectives and practices and the ramifications of their application to life-long learning.

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Page : pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Christian education
ISBN :

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The continued conflation of formation ministries with their educational predecessors prevents the realization of the richness promised by the formation paradigm while at the same time stifles the critical functions of the specific educational ministry of the church. Because true formation encompasses all that goes on within the congregational body, formation specialists must be reimagined as community organizers, available to inspire and equip the community to practice the Christian faith. Educators must take seriously the task of teaching and engaging the Christian language, which in turn allows for deeper understanding of and participation in the community of the Church.

Author : Christian Selvaratnam
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334061830

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Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative perspective on the methods used to train future practitioners in the art of church planting. Demonstrating how training for the next generation of church planting leaders might be informed by the historic master-apprentice model, guild learning communities, creativity and an artisan approach to ministry, this book is a vital resource to inform the methods of training for the next generation of church planters.

Author : Anthony Clarke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725263513

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Forming Ministers or Training Leaders is a unique book because it is based on a significant piece of empirical research. Anthony Clarke explores the way that the practice among theological colleges in the UK has been changing and develops the concept of the “pastoral imagination” to express what a theological college is aiming to do with its students. The book then offers an analysis of the “pastoral imagination” that is in fact at work in a selection of Baptist colleges and other theological institutions in the UK. Alongside this Clarke offers a coherent and robust theological account of the work of a theological college, through engaging with recent trinitarian theology, and argues that this is best understood as a process of formation which embraces other ideas of training and education.