
Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing
Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism
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Theological Education and Christian Scholarship for Human Flourishing
Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Multiculturalism
About this book
This book explores the interconnection of theological education and Christian scholarship, cultural and theological hermeneutics, pedagogy and community knowledge, democracy and citizenship. Yet, the three major disciplines or discourses covered in this work include multicultural education, theology, and hermeneutics through the lens of human flourishing and the concept of the good life. From this angle, this project is written from three different methods and approaches that intersect with each other: a theology of contextualization, a hermeneutics of interculturality, and a pedagogy of cultural literacy and transformative community knowledge. The book advances the idea that theological education should be the starting point to foster candid conversations about the importance of democracy and human rights, civic engagement and the political life, inclusion and diversity, and pluralism and difference in our multicultural society. The book uses the tools of multicultural education and cultural knowledge to enhance democracy and promote fundamental human virtues that would sustain the good life and human flourishing in the world--in the Aristotelian sense and in the Socratic idea of local and world citizenship. Finally, this text offers an alternative vision to contemporary theological education, to deconstruct the white, male, and Eurocentric narratives of theological education and Christian scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Cultivating the Life of Faith and the Life of the Mind
- Chapter 2: Cultivating Our Shared Humanity
- Chapter 3: The Predicament of Theological Tribalism and the Limits of Ideological Theological Education
- Chapter 4: The Color of Theological Education and the Unfulfilled Dream of Democratic Integration, Representation, and Inclusion
- Chapter 5: Beyond Biblical and Theological Literacy
- Conclusion: In Praise of Human Flourishing
- Appendix I: The Necessity of the Teaching Philosophy
- Appendix II: Course Syllabus
- Appendix III: Course Syllabus
- Appendix IV: Course Syllabus
- Appendix V: Course Syllabus
- Bibliography