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THEOLOGICAL PEDAGOGIES:Reflections on place, process, person and practices in teaching and learning theology in times of crisis
(AOSIS, 2025-08-12) Bård Norheim; Ian Nell
This chapter explores the sociotechnical aspects of theological pedagogy in the South African context. South African higher education institutions (HEIs) have sought to incorporate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into teaching and learning – efforts that must be understood against the backdrop of an unequal higher education (HE) landscape. As a discipline, theology emphasises critical thinking and contextual engagement. However, epistemological foundations of theological education in South Africa often remain disconnected from African social realities, despite repeated calls for decolonised education. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) not only raises concerns about academic integrity and plagiarism but also about the contextual dimension of theology. This chapter examines the twofold crises facing theological education in South Africa: The bias of GAI and curriculum transformation. To equip future leaders in the church and society, theology must be deeply rooted in its context, understand the impact of the digital divide for student success and critically discuss the implication of artificial intelligence (AI) bias for the pursuit of an African theological pedagogy.
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Traditional & Encounters A Global Parcepective on the Past
(McGraw Hill, 2021-01-21) Jerry H. Bentley
How do the themes of traditions and encounters continue to help make sense of the entire human past in the twenty-first century? As Jerry Bentley and Herb Zeigler noted in their original Pref- ace to this book, world history is about both diversity and con- nections. They began this text with a simple goal: to help our students understand the unique histories of the world’s rich va- riety of peoples, while at the same time allowing them to see the long histories of connections and interactions that have shaped all human communities for millennia. To do this, the authors wrote a story around the dual themes of traditions and encoun- ters to highlight the many different religions and customs em- braced by the world’s peoples while also exploring the encounters with other cultures that brought about inevitable change.
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TRANSFORMING Practice :PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
(MOWBRAY, 1996-06-26) Elaine L. Graham
We live in an age of uncertainty. Contemporary Western society has been characterized as one in which there is no longer a consensus of values. The assumptions and criteria by which Western science, politics and philosophy have been guided for the past two hundred years, associated with the ideals of progress, humanism and reason have been discredited by critical voices which emphasize fragmentation, pluralism and scepticism. Some have diagnosed this as typical of the postmodern condition, which may be seen as destabilizing many of the nostrums of the Enlight- enment by challenging prevailing concepts of truth, human nature, knowledge, power, selfhood and language that have informed Western thought for two hundred years.
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Trinity and Revelation: A CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY FOR THE PLURALISTIC WORLD
(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014-04-24) Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Just a few days before his death, Paul Tillich is reported to have confessed that if he had the opportunity to rewrite his three-volume Systematic Theology, he would do so engaging widely world religions. This was due to his brief exposure at the end of his life to the forms of Japanese Buddhism as well as the influence from his famed Romanian religious studies colleague Mircea Eliade. 1While Karl Barth made occasional, scattered references to religions, he also dismissed any revelatory and theological role of religions. Even worse, he made the avoidance of dialogue with the natural sciences a theological theme — and thus could write a massive volume on creation without references to scientific understanding!
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Uncommon decency: Christian civility in an uncivil world
(InterVarsity Press, 1992-02-22) RICHARD J. MOUW
This book could not have been written without the help and inspiration that I have received from many people. Two deserve special mention. Rodney Clapp at InterVarsity Press has been an uncommonly skilled editor. And my wife, Phyllis Gilbert Mouw, has been an uncommonly sensitive partner on an un¬ commonly decent journey.