Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education
In theological education, we do the work of deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning for the sake of our collective decolonial futures. Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education invites teachers to imagine what that future might hold and how it might take shape.
Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education
In theological education, we do the work of deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning for the sake of our collective decolonial futures. Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education invites teachers to imagine what that future might hold and how it might take shape.
Decolonizing Interreligious Education explores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. This book lifts up the voices of those speaking from embodied experience of suffering multiple oppressions.
John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no shred of fiction here. The author stood at the center of the conflict. His observations of the events (both broadly public and closeted in private) that altered the facepolitic of Lutheranism in ......
Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion
Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing "critical" distance from our objects of study.
Lutheran Higher Education for Planetary Citizenship
Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation became a major turning point in Western history. Born in a university setting, the dialectical interaction of the life of the mind and the life of faith has been a hallmark of Lutheran higher education from the beginning. As Concordia College observes the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, it is ......
Religious and Democratic Covenants and Controversies
This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.
"Although the field of biblical studies is bursting with new methods and fresh interpretations, there has been surprisingly little discussion of what these changes mean for the actual task of teaching the Bible. Happily, this volume takes significant first steps in addressing the shifts in classroom pedagogy that the new day in biblical studies ......
The 2010 Hein-Fry lecture topic was Hearing the Word: Teaching the Bible in the Parish (and Beyond). This theme was chosen in order to engage the crucial conversation concerning various approaches to Scripture and what resources and challenges those approaches bring to diverse North American contexts. The hope for these lectures is that they raise ......
