To Understand God Truly: What's Theological about a Theological School

by David H. Kelsey

Overview

What are the purposes and priorities that really govern a theological school? What are realistic expectations of theological education? What would be the ideal theological school, and what is theological about it? Theologian David Kelsey addresses these questions and other concerns regarding theological schooling, and offers suggestions on how to analyze and reconceive "theological schooling" in productive ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725230163
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	07/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	40 MB
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About the Author

David H. Kelsey is professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut.
David Kelsey is professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Part 1 Locating a Theological School

1 Orientation: Or, After the Fall 13

2 Crossroads Hamlets 30

3 Excellence as Paideia 63

4 Excellence as Wissenschaft and Professionalism 78

Part 2 A Proposal

5 Utopia 103

6 Borrowed Language 115

7 Congregations 131

8 A Theological School 161

9 A Theological School's Course of Study 196

10 Between Athens and Berlin 227

Epilogue 254

Select Bibliography of Books Cited 264

Index 267