Conflicting Paradigms in Theological Education for Public Ministry in the Church of England

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ID12838461
AuthorsJohn A Williams Iii (0000-0002-8561-468X, York St John University, corresponding author), John A Williams (0000-0002-0357-5454, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue3
Pages275-296
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Public Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-7320 • E-ISSN: 1872-5171
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15697320-12341295
OpenAlexW1967404634
LanguageEN
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Over recent years the Church of England has been introducing university validated programmes for the ministerial education of its clergy. By drawing on the experience of one region in delivering such a programme, this article identifies a number of tensions in the church’s relationship with higher education and explores how critical academic study might be better understood as a resource for ministerial formation. The article also raises issues for the validating universities arising out of their partnership with church institutions, and argues that both church and academy alike could benefit from a reappraisal of their aims and values as public institutions in the light of their shared involvement in theological education for the church’s public ministers

Christian ministry · General partnership · Higher education · Jewish studies · Judaism · Pedagogy · Political science · Public education · Religious education · Resource (disambiguation · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Theological seminary · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Religious Education and Schools · Religious Freedom and Discrimination · Theological Perspectives and Practices

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