This year, CCDA released the first edition of a Theological Journal for Christian Community Development workers to better integrate theology into their practice. This month we are featuring an article by Vince Bantu. His article, A View Of Athens From Jerusalem: The Attitude Toward Education In Early Christianity, seeks to understand attitudes of early Christianity toward theological education. If they saw academic pursuit as an integral component of their Christian discipleship, should we not also wholeheartedly embrace academic study into the life and ministry of the Church…
This year, CCDA released the first edition of a Theological Journal for Christian Community Development workers to better integrate theology into their practice. This month we are featuring an article by Vince Bantu. His article, A View Of Athens From Jerusalem: The Attitude Toward Education In Early Christianity, seeks to understand attitudes of early Christianity toward theological education. If they saw academic pursuit as an integral component of their Christian discipleship, should we not also wholeheartedly embrace academic study into the life and ministry of the Church? Vince shares from his experience as an urban, multi-ethnic pastor and also his interests in racial reconciliation, non-Western Christianity, and theological education for under-resourced communities to the conversation about academica in the life of the Church.
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