Anthony Clarke

Forming Ministers or Training Leaders is a unique book because it is based on a significant piece of empirical research. Anthony Clarke explores the way that the practice among theological colleges in the UK has been changing and develops the concept of the "pastoral imagination" to express what a theological college is aiming to do with its students. The book then offers an analysis of the "pastoral imagination" that is in fact at work in a selection of Baptist colleges and other theological institutions in the UK. Alongside this Clarke offers a coherent and robust theological account of the work of a theological college, through engaging with recent trinitarian theology, and argues that this is best understood as a process of formation which embraces other ideas of training and education.

An Exploration of Practice in Theological Colleges

Forming Ministers or Training Leaders?

Robert Ellis is a distinguished Baptist minister and theologian, who until his retirement in 2021 was a Fellow and then Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford. Having begun his theological career with a focus on Christian doctrine, he later developed specialisms in the bringing together of theology and film and, more recently, in theology and sport. He is currently a member of the Advisory Council for the Vatican-led project 'Sport at the Service of HUmanity'. Rob Ellis's theological legacy s one of 'aying attention', to the context, to Scripture, to tradition, and to God's action in the world. In this volume, Being Attentive, friends and colleagues have come together and taken the lead from Rob's own work to pursue this theme in a whole range of areas.

Explorations in Practical Theology in Honour of Robert Ellis

Being Attentive

Andrew Moore

The doctrine of God is central to theology for it determines the way in which other regions of Christian doctrine are articulated, yet work on this topic in its own right has been occluded recently by treatments of the Trinity or divine passibility. This collection of specially commissioned essays presents major treatments of key themes in the doctrine of God, motivated by but not restricted to the work of Professor Paul S. Fiddes to whom it is offered as a Festschrift. It includes invigorating discussions of the biblical and non-biblical sources for the doctrine of God, and the section on 'Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God' examines some of the most important conceptual questions arising in contemporary theological debate about the being and nature of God, and God's relations to the world. The final section of the book on 'God and Humanity' will be highly relevant to scholars working in the fields of theological anthropology, moral and political theology, on inter-faith relations, on theology and literature, or who are interested in the impact of contemporary science on the doctrine of God. The introduction relates the essays in the book to the work of Professor Fiddes and to wider debates in Christian doctrine. This volume brings together a team of internationally distinguished scholars from a wide range of theological, philosophical, and religious perspectives, and it will stimulate fresh thinking and new debate about this most central of topics in Christian theology.

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