Courage Beyond Fear

Re-Formation in Theological Education

Katie Day, Deirdre Good

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• ISBN:
  9781532661310
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Theaim of this book,Courage BeyondFear: Re-Formation in Theological Education,is to combat actual crises wehave survived in theological institutions. We first document responses of resistance toauthoritarian structures instudent and faculty meditations and sermons. Then throughthem we identify dispositions in community crises: shock, witness,flight or fight, marginalization, power in community, and forgiveness. Behind thesedispositions we identify strategies: opposition without rancor; shared authority; vulnerabilityand truth telling; hope without expectation; courage beyond fear; humilitywithout humiliation. The book proposes that these strategies of formation andresistance can be deployed in other authoritarian and paternalistic contexts.This book also describes actual realities behind public statements of institutional changes and catastrophes through process, not outcomes. It is the first description of actual crises in theological schools from student, faculty, and staff perspectives.