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What’s the matter with theological education?

Barbara Wheeler examines the critical and constructive project led by Ted Smith of Candler School of Theology that predicts professional models of ministry, denominations and congregations will not survive in their current form.

Discontent with the way theology is taught and ministers are educated runs through the whole history of seminary education in America.

In the first decade of the 19th century, the Congregationalist faculty of Andover Academy, shocked by the decision of Harvard College to appoint a Unitarian to its chair of divinity, acted on a proposal drafted many years earlier by one of the school’s professors. It outlined a post-baccalaureate program...

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