Major landscape changes in theological education
Inside Higher Education has a useful article up describing the massive changes underway at Episcopal seminaries across the US. It behooves the rest of us to pay attention! Both in terms of the vulnerability of traditional theological education (the common saying is that we’re all only about 12 months out of bankruptcy), but also in terms of the opportunities that this kind of crisis creates for re-envisioning what theological education is about. (Hat tip to AKMA for the link.)
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Patricia commented on 13 March 2008:These news stories are sobering and ponderous. But may I admit that there's something exciting in all this, too? Has the church been at a crossroads like this before? The Confessing Church in Germany in the mid-1930's? The first wave of European religious leaders coming to the American frontier and needing to learn new ways for a new world (cf. Lamy of Santa Fe)? Columba setting sail from Ireland? Are there parallels in other religious traditions? Other disciplines? It's not just about re-envisioning theological education; it feels like a time in which it is no longer possible to take anything in the Christian life for granted. Where are those clues to the future in our past?