Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation as a Focus for Theological Education

Author: Hough, Joseph C. Jr. and Barbara G. Wheeler, eds.
Publisher: Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
ISBN: 1555402364
Table of Contents: Foreword

Part One:
A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education (James F. Hopewell )
On the Christian Congregation (David H. Kelsey)
Ministry of the World: A New Professional Paradigm (John B. Cobb)
Which Congregations? A Mission Focus for Theological Education (Letty Russell)
A Theological Curriculum About and Against the Church (David H. Kelsey)
Friends in the Family: Church, Seminary, and Theological Education (Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki)

Part Two:
Disciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Congregation
Historical Studies
A Study of the Congregation in History (Jane Dempsey Douglass)
The Congregation and New Testament Studies (Carl Holladay)
The Historian and the Congregation (E. Brooks Holifield)
Practical Studies
Pastoral Care and the Study of the Congregation (Don S. Browning)
The Ministry of a Congregation: Rethinking Christian Ethics for a Chuch-Centered Seminary (Stanley Hauerwas)
Toward A Christian Feminist Liberation Hermeneutic for Demystifying Class Reality in Local Congregations (Beverly W. Harrison)