(DOWNLOAD) "Theological Education As Hope for a New Ecclesiology (Essay)" by Currents in Theology and Mission ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Theological Education As Hope for a New Ecclesiology (Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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This year, and this weekend in particular, PLTS is celebrating its centennial. Our big celebration this Sunday falls on October 10, 2010. That's 10-10-10! So we are calling it our Cen-ten-ten-ten-ial. We trace our origins back to St. James Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon, where a handful of people had the faith, courage, and the chutzpah to start a seminary in the Sunday school room in the balcony of the church. They saw the need for "native pastors" trained in the West to serve the burgeoning population along the West Coast in the first decade of the twentieth century. There were six students and three teachers, one of them a woman, Jennie Bloom Summers. This "lone seminary in the West" moved to Seattle a few years later and gained strength until it had to close during the depression. The money from the sale of the property was invested. In 1950 that nest egg enabled another visionary band of folks to buy this property in the Berkeley Hills and make the dream of a seminary in the West a permanent reality. Well, we're betting on it being permanent. The church, our denomination, our society, the economy, the world of higher education, and theological education itself are all in such radical flux right now that it is hard to say what, if anything, is permanent. We are in for a world of change. Without an exhaustive analysis, let me just mention briefly some of the cosmic shifts we are going through.