The Mystagogical Nature of Theological Education
Theological education today has almost exclusively aligned itself with tertiary educational expectations, all of which focus their attention, and appropriately so, on the transference of conceptual knowledge in an objective and detached manner. Moreover, having had to engage with the widely accepted...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Phronema
Year: 2023, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-22 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FB Theological education HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
Theological Education
B Theology B transformational theology B Mystagogy B theology and salvation B Expectation (Psychology) B Orthodox Theology B Primitive & early church, ca. 30-600 |
| Summary: | Theological education today has almost exclusively aligned itself with tertiary educational expectations, all of which focus their attention, and appropriately so, on the transference of conceptual knowledge in an objective and detached manner. Moreover, having had to engage with the widely accepted methodological norms of the empirical sciences, theological education has increasingly endeavored to present itself in almost exclusively rationalist and logically conditioned ways, in order to demonstrate its rightful place within the university sector. In examining the scriptural, patristic and liturgical sources of the early Church, the paper will want to recover what could be called a "mystagogical" understanding of the theological enterprise and the means by which this might be realised. The hope is that a contribution to modern understandings of theological education will have been made, with a well-deserved place afforded to its theophanic dimension - one which, in the end, could also be shown to better achieve theology's ultimate aim in encountering the living God. |
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| ISSN: | 0819-4920 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Phronema
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