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Teaching is a privilege. I
envision Gospel communities and a society built on a foundation of
compassion,
care, and nonviolence. This is the politics of Jesus,
as theologian Marcus Borg
reminds us.
In such communities the marginalized and the
stranger are welcomed and befriended. Needed are pastoral leaders who
will empower, educate and love the people they
serve and the worlds they inhabit.
As an administrator, I teach less, which is a loss. A recent class I taught was a doctoral seminar on thelogical education. Here's what we read:
- Daniel Aleshire, Earthen Vessels: Hopeful Reflections on the Work andFuture of Theological Schools (Eerdmans, 2008) ISBN: 0802863612
- Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra, eds., For Life Abundant (Eerdmans, 2008) ISBN: 9780802837448
- David V. Esterline and Ogbu U. Kalu, eds. Shaping Beloved Community: Multicultural Theological Education (Westminster John Knox, 2006) ISBN: 0664229379
- Edward Farley, Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological
Education (Wipf & Stock, 2001) ISBN: 1579105718
- Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Critical Perspectives Series. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0847690474
- Floding, Matthew. Welcome to Theological Field Education! (Alban Institute, 2011). ISBN: 9781566994071
- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Routledge, 1994) ISBN: 04159080806
- David H. Kelsey, To Understand God Truly (Westminster John Knox, 1992) ISBN: 0664253970
- Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching as a sacramental act. (Pilgrim Press, 2004) ISBN: 082981647X
- Parker J. Palmer, The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998). ISBN: 0787910589
- Thomas, Douglas and John Seely Brown. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011). ISBN: 1456458884
- John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990) ISBN: 0268011508
- Friedrich Schleiermacher, Brief Outline of Theology As a Field of Study: Translation of the 1811 and 1830 Editions, transl. Tice (please do not substitute translations) (Westminster John Knox, 2011) ISBN: 0664234062
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