Barbara G Wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 157232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara G Wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER B G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the USA today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very diff…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Journal Article Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools, by Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 279 pp. $35.00 Get access Deborah Kapp Deborah Kapp McCormick Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 201–203, https://doi.org/1…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
You Who Were Far off: Religious Divisions and the Role of Religious Research
Critical Junctures: Theological Education Confronts its Futures
During the 1980s, an extensive literature critical of North American theological education appeared. It challenged basic and widely accepted premises of theological study: its orientation toward clerical tasks, its conceptions of theory and practice, and the way studies were structured in a fourfold pattern of Bible, theology, history, and practice. Deploring the fragmentation that clericalism, theory-practice dualism, and disciplinary dispersion…
Congregation: Stories and Structures
After serving as a missionary in West Africa early in his career, with a training in comparative religion and especially Islamic studies, James Hopewell became interested in the nature of the local Christian congregation, its dilemmas and its strengths. He read widely on the subject, but the literature did not satisfy him, so he spent a sabbatical year in two local churches, like an anthropologist in a primitive village. As time went on he arrive…
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Congregation: Stories and Structures
After serving as a missionary in West Africa early in his career, with a training in comparative religion and especially Islamic studies, James Hopewell became interested in the nature of the local Christian congregation, its dilemmas and its strengths. He read widely on the subject, but the literature did not satisfy him, so he spent a sabbatical year in two local churches, like an anthropologist in a primitive village. As time went on he arrive…
Critical Junctures: Theological Education Confronts its Futures
During the 1980s, an extensive literature critical of North American theological education appeared. It challenged basic and widely accepted premises of theological study: its orientation toward clerical tasks, its conceptions of theory and practice, and the way studies were structured in a fourfold pattern of Bible, theology, history, and practice. Deploring the fragmentation that clericalism, theory-practice dualism, and disciplinary dispersion…
You Who Were Far off: Religious Divisions and the Role of Religious Research
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the USA today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very diff…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Journal Article Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools, by Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 279 pp. $35.00 Get access Deborah Kapp Deborah Kapp McCormick Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 201–203, https://doi.org/1…
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Religious Education and Schools (4 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works)