The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher

by Jones, L. Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780802849588
• ISBN10: 080284958X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

In The Scope of Our Art a diverse group of theological teachers explores the spiritual dimensions of their vocation as religious educators. Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St. Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual formation, religious commitments and teaching practices, and individual and institutional vocation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
FORMATIVE PRACTICES OF THE THEOLOGICAL TEACHER'S VOCATION
The Formation of the Scholar	3	(14)
W. Clark Gilpin
Writing as a Spiritual Discipline	17	(15)
Stephanie Paulsell
Reading as a Spiritual Discipline	32	(16)
Paul J. Griffiths
Contemplation in the Midst of Chaos: Contesting the Maceration of the Theological Teacher	48	(27)
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
My Vocational Kinship with the United States' First Female Theologian	75	(24)
Rosemary Skinner Keller
THEOLOGICAL TEACHERS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS
Teaching as Conversation	99	(21)
Susan M. Simonaitis
Teaching as a Ministry of Hope	120	(15)
Paul J. Wadell
Teaching as Cultivating Wisdom for a Complex World	135	(20)
Lois Malcolm
Teaching and Learning as Ceaseless Prayer	155	(18)
Michael Battle
THEOLOGICAL TEACHERS IN THEIR SCHOOLS
``Yea, the Work of Our Hands, Establish Thou It'': On Stability in the Academic Life	173	(17)
Claire Mathews McGinnis
Vocation in the Outback	190	(19)
Frederick W. Norris
Negotiating the Tensions of Vocation	209	(16)
L. Gregory Jones
The Formation of Vocation - Institutional and Individual	225	(15)
Leanne Van Dyk
Attending to the Collective Vocation	240	(22)
Gordon T. Smith
Contributors	262