‘One Does Not Live on Bread Alone’: Theological Education as Prophetism
This paper explores theological education through the lens of the prophetic model and focuses on three aspects of the prophetic activity: (a) alerting the church to contemporary ‘fertility cults’, e.g. the subtle subjection of one’s faith to economic concerns, (b) exposing the church’s ‘doctrinal’ d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2013
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| In: |
Transformation
Year: 2013, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 182-189 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theological Education
B Secularity B idle talk B Prophetic B Evangelicalism |
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| Summary: | This paper explores theological education through the lens of the prophetic model and focuses on three aspects of the prophetic activity: (a) alerting the church to contemporary ‘fertility cults’, e.g. the subtle subjection of one’s faith to economic concerns, (b) exposing the church’s ‘doctrinal’ description of a reality which rather conceals and obstructs the understanding of the church’s actual life, and (c) appropriating the text in each context while remaining open to the challenge of other contextual readings. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0265378813490111 |