Looking Forward with Hope: Reflections on the Present State and Future of Theological Education

by Benjamin Valentin

Publisher:

Cascade Books

, 2019

Overview

Theological schools are currently facing a perfect storm of jeopardies that threatens their future prospects and even survivability. The squall is all the more menacing for free-standing seminaries that are not connected to a university, and especially for free-standing mainline Protestant or mainline denominational seminaries. This book brings together a stellar and diverse cast of administrators and professors working within different theological schools to reflect on the present crisis of theological education, and on the question of the possible future of mainline Protestant and mainline denominational theological schools in the United States.

Product Details

• Title : Looking Forward with Hope: Reflections on the Present State and Future of Theological Education
• Author: Valentin, Benjamin
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• ISBN: 9781498230148

About Benjamin Valentin

Teaching and research interests are in contemporary theology and culture, constructive theology, and U.S. Hispanic/Latino(a) theology. In general, his focus is on leading people to explore the possibility of a theological outlook that can be responsive to new occasions, challenges, and duties in our late modern era. He is the author of the award winning Mapping Public Theology: Beyond Culture, Identity, and Difference; editor of New Horizons in Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology; and co-editor of The Ties that Bind: African-American and Hispanic-American/Latino(a) Theologies in Dialogue and the forthcoming Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Latino/as, Popular Culture, and Religious Expression. Benjamin joined the faculty in 2000. Actively involved in the church, he serves as a lay leader in various capacities and presently attends Leon de Juda/Lion of Judah (an American Baptist Church).