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Serving Communities: Governance and t...
The contexts in which theological schools operate is changing rapidly, presenting CEOs, administrators, faculty, and governing bodies with new challenges. How can theological schools adapt to these changing contexts while maintaining missional clarity? What role do each of these groups of actors play in this process? This publication describes the experience of four theological schools and presents some practical suggestions for how they can adapt in dynamic environments.
Connecting Curriculum with Context: A...
Theological education doesn’t happen in isolation. Framed within all of the contexts emerging from today’s pluralistic world, its success must involve connecting curriculum to context. Graduates must engage effectively in specific ministry contexts. Engaging with various models of theological education, this book explores the challenge of context, as well as identifying steps in the logical sequence of connecting curriculum with context.
Best Practice Guidelines for Doctoral...
Throughout the Majority World, evangelical theological education is experiencing unprecedented growth. As its impact reverberates through the Church, a central factor is the emergence of evangelical doctorate programs. This book includes resources for these programs emerging from ICETE’s Doctoral Initiative, including the Beirut Benchmarks for Research Doctoral Programs (2010), the Beirut Benchmarks for Professional Doctorates (2011), and a set of best practice guidelines applying the Benchmarks. Pursuing excellence which honours God and serves His Church, this work will benefit many.
Transforming Theological Education: A...
For several decades concern has been expressed about the need for greater integration and contextual significance in the curricular design of theological education. In addition there has been a growing awareness of the role theological schools should play in strengthening the missional vision and practice of local churches. For the past five years the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon has engaged in an ongoing experiment in the design and implementation of an integrated and contextually driven curriculum. Drawing on lessons learned from this experience, and from the wider discourse currently taking place in higher education and especially in theological education, Transforming Theological Education provides theoretical foundations and practical principles for purposeful curriculum design, as well as tools for integrated and contextually significant learning in the classroom.
Whole-Life Mission for the Whole Chur...
By perpetuating the false belief that there are some areas of life that are not important to God, some callings that are second-class, and some spheres of society that are not worth engaging, the sacred-secular divide diminishes our understanding of God, discipleship, missiology, and the gospel itself. This book provides theological educators with the tools they need to combat the divide in the very realm where it is so often generated: the classroom.
Towards Vital Wholeness in Theologica...
Critics are increasingly bringing attention to flaws of theological education. This examination of the issue of holistic practices in theological schools provides sage and doable solutions where others have only observed systemic gaps. Jaison dissects issues, diagnoses symptoms and prescribes the way forward to stronger leaders practising ministry.
TEE in Asia: Empowering Churches, Equ...
In this immensely relevant book, the Increase Association shares its practical wisdom on how to utilize Theological Education by Extension as “Tools to Equip and Empower” all believers for kingdom work. Filled with testimonies from church communities throughout Asia, this book provides concrete examples of TEE’s effectiveness in a wide variety of contexts and the innovative work of the Increase Association which connects, strengthens, and represents the national TEE movements.
The Motif of Hospitality in Theologic...
This book provides an integrated biblical, theological, and educational rationale to in- form theological educators of the place of hospitality in enhancing their quest to create more effective learning environments for the holistic formation of students. Dr Davina Soh explores key elements of hospitality such as inclusion, presence, care, and reciprocity, which when combined, can deliver the best possible educational experience for theological students and transform an entire institution.
Leadership in Theological Education, ...
This book is the first of three publications to accompany and support the IPAL seminars and provide wider access to the principles required by academic leaders for institutional development. The contributing chapters are all aimed to share the expertise and understanding the authors have of leading evangelical academic institutions and are organised under four sections of foundations for theological education, academic leadership’s characteristics and responsibilities, administrative practices, and leadership practices.
Let the Church Meet in Your House!: T...
As Christians, we yearn to see our communities saturated with the good news of Jesus Christ, but there are countless obstacles to overcome as we seek to fulfil this vision. In this book, Emerson Manaloto offers the model of New Testament-based house churches as the vehicle for gospel ministry in communities around the world with specific applications for the Filipino context.
African Christian Leadership: Realiti...
"The expansion of Christianity in Africa has created opportunities for Christian leadership. Young congregations now provide local platforms for spiritual and social direction, with Schools and Universities providing educational opportunities. African Christians also find themselves exercising leadership in a wide variety of other areas.African Christian Leadership, the result of a multiyear study by African scholars offers insights on the support and training necessary to promote African Christianity and to foster the healthy development of church and society in Africa."
God Is One: A Christian Defence of Di...
Dr Kuhn explores the teachings of two Arab Christian theologians from the Abbasid Era (750–1250), ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib and Iliyyā of Nisibis, and how they defended the Christian view of God as three-in-one in the Muslim milieu and in reference to the Islamic concept of tawḥīd, that God is indivisibly one. The intellectual contribution of these two Christian thinkers in the Muslim Golden Age has had a lasting effect on contemporary Islamic thought to this day.
Japanese Understanding of Salvation: ...
The dominating worldview in Japan is deeply animistic. Beliefs such as the Japanese mana-concept, ki (気) and the concept of God/god(s), kami (神), are pervasive among Japanese, fundamentally influencing their society. Dr Heißwolf, critically examines the animism in Japan in light of core Christian beliefs. This meticulous study is framed squarely within missiological thought and praxis so Christians serving in Japanese contexts are better able to communicate the message of the Gospel by fully understanding Japanese people.
Grieving with Hope: Selected Aspects ...
In this well-researched work, Dr Albín Masarik explores various features of funeral sermons arising from their unique context and homiletic process. Addressing the definition of a funeral sermon, their categorisation, purpose and context, this book brings clarity to inform the exercise of preaching a funeral sermon and help pastors and theologians grapple with how to best shepherd their flock and exalt our Saviour in the midst of bereavement.
Unashamed Servant-Leadership
Dr Rajagopal’s rigorous examination of the Asian social, cultural and theological context in relation to women in Christian leadership builds a strong platform for their stories from across Asia to resound off the pages of this book. This thorough study not only illuminates the Asian context but is eminently transferable to other parts of the Majority World and the West in pursuit of releasing women into their gifting from God.
African Voices: Towards African Briti...
This publication explores the significant presence of African Christianity in Britain. It is a unique expression of theology from African Christians, contextualizing the gospel for a multicultural British society. Under three key areas of missiology, contextual constructive theology and transformative practical theology the contributors interact with topics such as reverse missiology, African pneumatology, prosperity gospel, and urban mission, rigorously examining new contexts of Christianity and articulates new theological perspectives that are required to understand twenty-first-century ministry.
Theological Models of the Doctrine of...
Dr Kombo brings a unique and valuable contribution to understanding the Trinity and how God can be understood within the context of any culture and language. He recognises and brings into focus God’s self-presentation in Scripture. Kombo interacts with how various traditions viewed God and their interpretation of the Trinity including a distinctly African view of God from the Luo language tradition, and emphasises the benefits of considering alternative models of interpretation from various regions of the world.
Reincarnation, Oblivion or Heaven?: A...
Mission Drift?: Exploring a Paradigm ...
The author analyses several aspects that can cause “mission drift” and highlights some of the practical challenges related to combining social action and the proclamation of the gospel to avoid this with respect to the objectives of Christian integral mission. The viability of this new mission concept is tested with special reference to specific microfinance operations as a platform for social action in the Philippines and Thailand.
Imaginative Preaching: Praying the Sc...
This book explores what is possible when the Scripture to be preached is prayed through the agency of two ancient prayer disciplines: lectio divina and Ignatian Gospel Contemplation. Through the experiences of eight vocational pastor-preachers this study tracks the difficulties, discoveries and delights as they commit to utilizing these prayer disciplines as part of their regular sermon preparation.
