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A Critique Of Theological Education In The Light Of Changing American Culture, David S. Schuller
A Critique Of Theological Education In The Light Of Changing American Culture, David S. Schuller
Concordia Theological Monthly
The more critical the situation faced by a ministry, the more intense has been its criticism of conventional theological education. Where the patterns of cultural change have been least severe, the conventional shape of ministerial training has been most successful. Turning to the areas of greatest change we find the most demanding tests that can be addressed to contemporary theological education. Moreover, such areas should prove most predictive of the types of change we can look for in the future.
Editorial, Herbert T. Mayer
Some Directives For The Education Of A More Excellent Ministry, Arthur C. Repp
Some Directives For The Education Of A More Excellent Ministry, Arthur C. Repp
Concordia Theological Monthly
The continuing reevaluation which theological seminaries have been making of themselves, coupled with a growing criticism of the seminaries' products on the part of many in the church, has produced a lively ferment in the current discussion of ministerial education. Some outstanding theological books and articles of late have addressed themselves to this subject, all of them showing a real concern for finding a solution.
The Body Of Christ, Richard R. Caemmerer
The Body Of Christ, Richard R. Caemmerer
Concordia Theological Monthly
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession warns against two distortions in the meaning of the church. The one is that the church be viewed as an outward organization in which believers and hypocrites are mingled. In the days of the Reformation this distortion implied that the church was a political organization to which men adhered through the carrying out of rites and obligations. In our own time it may take the form of stress on extending and financing the church's business to the point of devaluating its other concerns. The other distortion is that the church is regarded as a …