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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Seminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry: An Analysis of Trends and Transitions

The Wabash Center

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Author
Schuth, Katarina
Publisher
Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN
ISBN
081465861X
Book Review Link
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9647.t01-1-00084/abstract
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Background
Methodology
Outline of the Study

Part I. Context
ch. 1 Surviving the Shaking of the Foundations: United States Catholicism in the Twenty-First Century
ch. 2 Reaping Harvests, Sowing Seeds: Vatican Influences and National Developments in United States Seminaries from the Mid-Nineteen Eighties to the Present
ch. 3 The Priest as Parish Leader: A Contextual Analysis

Part II. Mission and Members of Theologate Communities
ch. 4 The Mission of Theologates
ch. 5 Students and Their Backgrounds: Religious, Intellectual, and Human
ch. 6 Board Members, Administrators, and Faculties

Part III. Formation Programs
ch. 7 Evolution and Development of Formation Programs
ch. 8 Human and Spiritual Formation in Theologates
ch. 9 Intellectual Formation
ch. 10 Pastoral Field Education

Part IV. The Future
ch. 11 Perceptions about Church and Ministry
ch. 12 Perceptions about Priesthood

Conclusion
Appendix A: Theologate Ownership and Operation
Bibliography
Index
In Seminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry, Sr. Schuth details some of the ways seminaries are responding to the ministerial requirements of the Church of today and tomorrow. Extensive research images of Church, priesthood, and ministry are taken from a broad sample of faculty, students, administrators, and trustees to answer such questions as: What is the nature of the local and universal mission of the Church in which people seek to serve these days? What is their vision of the church's future? How must people be prepared to carry, out the vision they hold about the church's ministry? What are their fears, hopes, anxieties about ministering in the Church? and What would be their one wish for the future? Studies of what parishioners expect of their Church and ministers complement the internal views. (From the Publisher)