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What are the purposes and priorities that really govern a
theological school? What are realistic expectations of theological
education? What would be the ideal theological school, and what is
theological about it? Theologian David Kelsey addresses these
questions and other concerns regarding theological schooling, and
offers suggestions on how to analyze and reconceive "theological
schooling" in productive ways.
The 1980s produced an unprecedented large amount of literature and
a vigorous debate on the purpose and nature of theological
education in North America. Surveying and probing the major
positions in this debate, David H. Kelsey argues in this book that
the central differences between various voices in theological
education emerge most clearly when viewed in light of "Athens" and
"Berlin."For Kelsey, "Athens" and "Berlin" represent two very
different--and ultimately irreconcilable--models of excellent
education. In the case of de facto, says Kelsey, that modern North
American theological education, for historical reasons, is
committed to both models, resulting in ongoing tensions and
struggles. Kelsey shows how a variety of significant
thinkers--Newman, Niebuhr, Farley, Stackhouse, and several
others--fit in the Athens-Berlin framework.In presenting a keen
analysis of major themes and patterns of movement in the
theological education debate, Between Athens and Berlin itself
makes a significant contribution to the debate.
Through telling the true story of a series of horrendous events
that befell a young boy and his family, widely respected theologian
David Kelsey offers a groundbreaking exploration of the Christian
concept of redemption. When the adolescent boy is stricken with a
terrible illness and enters a coma only to come out emotionally
changed and physically handicapped, the family undergoes incredible
hardship, guilt, and sadness, which ultimately ended in death.
Arguing that redemption can only be experienced in a concrete
situation, he asks What can it possibly mean to say that in Jesus
Christ God 'redeems' such situations and events? To answer the
question, Kelsey interweaves this family's story with biblical
narrative, theology, and the metaphorical application of secular
uses of the words redeem and redemption. He suggests three ways in
which to imagine redemption, suggesting how Jesus' ministry may be
seen as making up for the world's bad performance; how Jesus'
passion and crucifixion can redeem their personal identities from
their bondage to distorting powers; and how Jesus' resurrection can
be seen as making good on a promise that redeems the family from
vicious cycles of i
How does properly interpreted scripture bear on Christian theology
and ethics? That is the question addressed in the Trinity Press
edition of this classic text, which includes a new preface by the
author. The issue is not so much how to interpret scripture as what
to do with it once one has interpreted it. The book therefore
explores not what theologians have said about scripture's authority
for theology, but the sense in which scripture serves as authority
in their actual practice of theology. It offers a set of brief case
studies of theologians authorizing or "proving" a theological
proposal by scripture, and based on these studies, an analysis of
the concept of "authority for theology" implicit in them. Finally,
it teases out of the cases implicit assumptions about what the
concept of scripture means and why appeal ought to be made to it to
"prove theology." "Kelsey has given us a book that deserves the
serious attention not only of professional theologians but also of
pastors and all those in the Christian community who understand
their personal identity and the identity of their community to be
shaped in some sense by scripture." Theology Today David H. Kelsey
is Luther Weigle Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and
Yale Graduate School.
What are the purposes and the priorities that really govern a
theological school? What are realistic expectations of theological
education? What would be the ideal theological school, and what is
theological about it? Theologian David Kelsey addresses these
questions and other concerns regarding theological schooling, and
offers suggestions on how to analyze and reconceive "theological
schooling" in productive ways.
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