You would like your Sunday School teachers to be competent leaders, right? You’d like to think that the people teaching children, youth, and adults have been trained in solid theology and leadership practices.
Get this. Today, in my Constructive Theology class (about 25 students), Dr. Stafford asked for a show of hands from people [...]
In today’s Constructive Theology class, we discussed three trends in thought that are relevant to Christian concerns (such as evangelism) today.. The prefixes “pre” and “post” are unfortunate, because they imply some sort of chronology which simply isn’t relevant…but nonetheless, they exist.
Premodernism – one believes that there is a “correct” body of truths, one [...]
Today’s task is for me to research and write a paper on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, a term coined by someone after Wesley about his approach to theology. In short, the tools that we have available to help answer theological questions are (1) scripture, (2) tradition, (3) reason, and (4) experience.
This morning I came to [...]
I just got out of my Old Testament class – today’s discussion was on Genesis. We were assigned three main extrabiblical readings to read in preparation for today’s class, and I did them of course and wrote the requisite reflection paper.
When I got to class, though, I realized (through the course of the discussion) [...]
As part of my seminary orientation, I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator again a couple of weeks ago. I say “again” because I’ve taken it so many times in the past; in fact, people who take it so often know how to answer the questions in order to get the results they want. [...]
In all my years of education, I’ve begun experiences at various schools with the understanding that I do not know what I need to know. There has always been some degree or some curriculum that I must conquer in order to move on to the next phase of life, which likely has another degree [...]
I read a book today. Well, I read most of it today, just a little bit yesterday. It’s entitled “Who Needs Theology?” and describes how theology is accessible (and is practiced) by everyone. It also describes what “good” theology is, what different kinds of theologies are, why theology should be studied, what [...]
Another day, another book to read…
It’s really incredible, just how much material there is out there regarding theology, philosophy, history… but the amazing thing about studying this (as opposed to studying math) is that this actually *matters* to me. (I mean no offense to friends of mine who are studying math and find [...]
