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Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry The Search for Integration in Theology
By John E. Paver
Copyright 2006
200 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
198 Pages
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Routledge
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A major and continuing problem for theological education and the practice of Christian ministry is how to best achieve a genuine integration between theory and practice, theology and experience. The key claim of this book is that theological reflection, beginning with experience, is a method of integration and that pastoral supervision is a vehicle for theological reflection. In establishing this... Read more
Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry
Biography
John E. Paver is Professor Emeritus at the Uniting Church Theological College, Melbourne, Australia.
’... illuminating and provocative...’ Theological Book Review ’Paver's candid reflections raise questions about the practice of the churches more generally. In a world where many of the old religious landmarks and certainties have either disappeared or else seem to be relevant to fewer and fewer people,is there any possibility of finding a basis for striking up dialogue between religious traditions and people's everyday experience? If Paver's own experience is typical, and it certainly finds echoes with this reviewer's work, neither the churches nor the academy seem greatly concerned to address the question. This makes the book both insightful and uncomfortable.’ Theology
