The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher
- Michigan William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2002
- 263p
Formative Practices of the Theological Teacher`s Vocation The Formation of the Scholar ..........3 Writing as a Spiritual Discipline ....17 Reading as a Spiritual Discipline ......32 Contemplation in the Midst of Chaos......48 My Vocational Kinship with the United States ........75 2. Theological Teachers in Their Classrooms Teaching as Conversation ..99 Teaching as a Ministry of Hope ...120 Teaching as Cultivating wisdom for a Complex World ....135 Teaching and Learning as Ceaseless Prayer .....155 3. Theological Teachers in Their Schools Yea, The Work of our hands, establish thou it .....173 Vocation in the Outback ........190 Negotiating the Tensions of Vocation .........209 The Formation of Vocation Institutional and Individual ....225 Attending to the Collective Vocation ........240