Kevin VanhoozerTheological education forms students to become biblically, culturally, and doctrinally literate in order to live out their heavenly citizenship on earth. To succeed in this God-glorifying project, it takes not a village but a church—or rather...
Sean McGeverArtificial intelligence (AI) and technologies such as ChatGPT have forced educators to urgently confront difficult questions. Consider the following pedagogical concerns: Can these technologies be used effectively without compromising the...
John D. HarveyDuring my ten years in our seminary dean’s office, one of my responsibilities was observing faculty members in the classroom. It was an encouraging activity, because I was visiting classes in different disciplines and was observing excellent...
Douglas EstesTeaching is a form of research, observes William A. Dyrness, senior professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. To teach students well, we must always discover what they know and where they come from. Dyrness is the author of...
A Conversation with Thomas R. Schreiner Respect for our students and for our schools is what undergirds a meaningful calling to teach, observes Thomas R. Schreiner, the James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation and associate...
Adam J. HowellGraded Implementation for Using Digital Tools in Original-Language Courses The speed with which digital technology has swept through our society has certainly made an impact on original-language learning. Whereas it was previously unthinkable to...
Timothy GabrielsonThere might seem to be little need to explain the genre of epistle in the New Testament. The adjustments between modern expectations and ancient conventions appear minor, requiring little more than moving the sender’s name from the end to the...
Didaktikos"Joshua is not intended to be used as a study of applied ethics." - John Walton
by B.J. Oropeza | Azusa Pacific University Consider pictures and their indirect power to communicate. In American culture, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photo of V-J Day portrays a returning sailor smooching a passing nurse with such force that the...
by Mark Strauss | Bethel Seminary This is the last of five articles addressing the multiple hats we as professors wear, including research and writing, teaching, mentoring students, ministry in the church, and administrative roles. My goal...
Timothy Gatewood | Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary In a time when teaching success is defined by pragmatic, content-based assessment, I would like to offer a different path forward: teaching as ontological formation. Rather than viewing...
Exploring the Relationship between Education and Spiritual Formation Jeff Dryden | Covenant College Last semester I assigned the classic C. S. Lewis text The Abolition of Man to my New Testament Ethics class. Although it had been at least a decade...
Joshua FarrisThe teacher might cluster atonement theories in two general camps. The first camp approaches atonement by searching for the view that best captures all the major aspects of Christ’s person, work, and ethic. In the second camp, one is keen to find...
"What is clear, however, is that one of the chief aims of the theological educator is the growth of individuals into deeper people."
David McNutt | IVP Academic This summer, our family got a pet. We had held off for a long time—much longer than our kids wanted us to—but we finally thought that the time was right. Before we made a choice, though, we did some research about what...
It is a truth decreasingly acknowledged, that a student in possession of a good mind must be in want of a higher education. Inquiring minds want to know what a liberal arts education is good for, and whether it is worth the cost. Prospective pastors...
Dustin Burlet | Peace River Bible Institute T. Desmond Alexander once stated, with respect to teaching the Old Testament, that it is “difficult to think of any other academic subject that covers such a wide range of fields. How does one do justice...
"We must work to keep education personal in whatever ways are possible."
"Have a plan in place if you don’t get that tenure-track job."
COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND THE QUEST FOR DISCOVERY A Conversation with Robert W. Yarbrough From lumberjack to professor may not be the most obvious career change, but for Robert W. Yarbrough, both represent hard labor. During his thirty-six years of...
LISSA M. WRAY BEAL | PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY The Old Testament speaks of the importance of memory. For instance, Deuteronomy repeatedly calls for remembrance (5:15; 7:18; 8:18 et passim), Israel recounts its history in Psalms (105, 106), and failure...
Mark S. Gignilliat | Beeson Divinity School The proverbial mid-life whatever-you-wish-to-call-it exists in one form or another, and the academic is especially vulnerable. The hamster’s wheel of academic life can charm and dull at the same time. In...
SETH M. EHORN | WHEATON COLLEGE There it was—the most beautiful cathedral I had ever seen. But not just beautiful. Enormous! It was the summer of 2011, and I was spending the month of July studying French in Paris. As part of my experience, I...
"Teaching students to examine a passage for these oral conventions can achieve multiple pedagogical goals in graduate and undergraduate Bible courses."
"Paying attention to these basic details can pay huge exegetical dividends when it comes to interpreting the strange roles [pronouns] can play in discourse."
Ryan Griffith | Indianapolis Theological Seminary Although library archives are most often the domain of historians and other students of the humanities, research interests will take seminary faculty into the archives from time to time. Even...
"My goal as a professor is for you to do what you need to do here at the church—not just always rely on, as you were saying, things from the West, but to have there be a mutuality."
Integrate Knowledge and Praxis Through Contextual Teaching and Learning Kristen Ferguson | Gateway Seminary If information automatically led to transformation, then it would be easy. We could upload our fact-filled videos, pour ourselves another...
Google Classroom . . . has great potential to meet several institutional needs and can be easily adopted for theological education.
"I propose that biblical and theological scholars leave North America and learn a new language, then teach in their fields through the medium of that new language."