Cultivating Community in the Seminary
Theological education is most easily and comprehensively achieved within a worshipping
and learning community such as that created by Jesus and the disciples – at least, that is the
accepted wisdom of history. Institutional theological education has been criticised in recent
years and colleges need to respond to the criticisms, but the difficulties faced by those who
try to deliver comprehensive student formation without such a community are great.
However, with the idea and practice of community undergoing a radical change in society
today, college communities are also changing, often diluted and occasionally dispensed with
altogether. The old model of a college where students and lecturers live, eat, worship and
minister together is increasingly rare.
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