Identify “Dialectical Eschatology”:
Student answer: “a belief about the end times focusing on dialect”
Identify “Philo”:
Student answer: “Philo describes a brotherhood between Jews and Gentiles urged by Paul.”
Identify “Onesimus”:
Student answer: “A wise missionary that redeemed many with his wisdom.”
Student answer: “A successor of Herod the Great, the king who ruled Palestine.”
I especially like that last one. It [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 24, 2008
As Seen on a Final Exam
June 12, 2008
Latin American Journey: Insights for Christian Education in North America by Robert W. Pazmiño
I would like to draw your attention to one more book on Christian education, this one from the perspective of a North American Hispanic man (my last post highlighted a Christian education book by an African American woman). Robert Pazmiño is a professor of religious education at Andover Newton Theological School, who felt inspired to [...]
June 12, 2008
Many Conversions in Process (Part 2)
In my previous post, I mentioned how I have thought about conversions this quarter. Since it is relevant to my vocation as a scholar and educator, I would like to reflect a little bit on my “intellectual” and “sociopolitical” conversions. I can point to a definitive moment when I had my major moral conversion (see [...]
June 11, 2008
Many Conversions in Process (Part 1)
I have thought a good deal about conversions this quarter, which I didn’t expect to happen when it began. In my preaching practicum, “Making Doctrine Live,” I was assigned the text of Acts 16:25-34 (conversion of the Philippian jailer) and instructed to relate it to the doctrine of conversion. A few weeks before I was [...]
June 11, 2008
Dynamics of the Classroom/Congregation
During this quarter, part of the home stretch in my seminary career, I have been thinking about education in the context of a congregation. In “The Congregation as Learning Community,” we’ve been emphasizing a holistic kind of education, using buzzwords like “discipleship” and “missional church.” I came into the class thinking that we’d be mostly [...]
