Shaping Beloved Community: Multicultural Theological Education

by Esterline, David V.

• ISBN13: 9780664229375
• ISBN10: 0664229379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

This collection of essays presents the theological, pedagogical, and disciplinary framework on which multicultural theological education is built. While many seminaries and divinity schools have expressed their commitment to create diverse communities of faculty and students, fewer schools have developed methods of learning and teaching that are appropriate for these communities. Written by faculty members at McCormick Theological Seminary, a school renowned for its commitment to diversity, these essays provide examples of new ways of learning and teaching that will help shape and sustain multicultural theological education.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS
Multicultural Theological Education and Leadership for a Church without Walls	15	(13)
David V. Esterline
Toward an Intercultural Approach to Theological Education for Ministry	28	(15)
Jose R. Irizarry
Multicultural Theological Education: On Doing Difference Differently	43	(13)
Anna Case-Winters
Resources for Intercultural Transformation of Theological Education from the Latino/a Margins	56	(15)
Luis R. Rivera-Rodriguez
Libraries and Multicultural Theological Education: Beyond Nostalgia	71	(12)
Kenneth Sawyer
From Sideline to Center: Teaching and Learning for a Racially and Culturally Diverse Church	83	(18)
Deborah Flemister Mullen
PART TWO: BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
Of Every Race and People	101	(12)
Cynthia M. Campbell
Teaching the Bible in a Global Context	113	(15)
Robert L. Brawley
The Tower of Babel and Cultural Diversity: A Case Study on Engaging Diversity in the Classroom	128	(14)
Theodore Hiebert
Jennifer Blandford
Andrew Davis
Hardy Kim
Reading the Bible from a Postcolonial Perspective	142	(15)
Jae Won Lee
PART THREE: MINISTERIAL FORMATION
Teaching Pastoral Care and Counseling in the Cross-Cultural Classroom	157	(13)
Homer U. Ashby Jr.
``La Gran Encisera'': Barcelona and Education for Interfaith Ministry in the Shadow of Terror	170	(16)
Robert A. Cathey
Open Worship: Strategies of Hospitality and Questions of Power	186	(13)
Gary Rand
The Formation of Ministerial Authority and Identity: Cross-Cultural Experiential Education	199	(12)
Joanne Lindstrom
Teaching Afresh the History of Global Christianity	211	(14)
David D. Daniels III
Multicultural Theological Education in a Non-Western Context: Africa, 1975--2000	225	(18)
Ogbu U. Kalu
Bibliography	243	(12)
Contributors	255	(2)
Index of Names	257	(6)
Index of Subjects	263