Educating Clergy : Teaching Practices and

Based on extensive literary and field research involving surveys, classroom observations, and interviews with faculty, students, and administrators in Roman Catholic, mainline and evangelical Protestant, and Reform and Conservative Jewish seminaries, Educating Clergy explores the influence of their historic traditions and academic settings in contemporary classroom and communal pedagogies. The book describes elements in classroom pedagogies shared across these religious traditions that distinctively integrate the cognitive, practical, and normative apprenticeships to be found in all forms of professional education.

Charles Foster is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation, directing the Study on the Clergy as part of the Preparation for the Professions Program. He has been a professor of religion and education at the Candler School of Theology and is also an ordained United Methodist.

Lisa Dahill is a research scholar with the Carnegie Foundation Clergy Study. She received her M.Div from the Lutheran Church in America and a Ph.D in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union. Dahill is also an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Lawrence A. Golemon is a research consultant.

Barbara Wang Tolentino is a research assistant.

Foreword

ix

Lee S. Shulman

Acknowledgments

xv

About the Authors

xix

Introduction

1

(16)

William M. Sullivan

PART ONE Seminary Education: An Overview

17

(50)

Educating Clergy: A Distinctive Challenge

20

(19)

Common Profession, Diverse Practices

39

(28)

PART TWO Classroom Pedagogies in Forming a Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination

67

(120)

Pedagogies of Interpretation

70

(30)

Pedagogies of Formation

100

(27)

Pedagogies of Contextualization

127

(29)

Pedagogies of Performance

156

(31)

PART THREE Communal Pedagogies in Forming a Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination

187

(140)

Traditions of Seminary Education and the Pastoral Imagination

190

(45)

Continuity and Change in the Traditions of Seminary Education

235

(37)

Cultivating Spiritual Practices for Clergy Leadership

272

(24)

Cultivating Professional Practices: Field Education

296

(31)

PART FOUR Seminary Educator Teaching Practices

327

(56)

Teaching Toward Integration: Cultivating the Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination

329

(26)

An Invitation to Conversation

355

(28)

Appendix

383

(10)

Bibliography

393

(20)

Name Index

413

(8)

Subject Index

421

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Educating Clergy : Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination

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