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Shaping beloved community : multicultural theological education / edited by David V. Esterline and Ogbu U. Kalu.

Contributor(s): Esterline, David | Kalu, Ogbu .

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: viii, 271 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0664229379 (alk. paper); 9780664229375 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Theology -- Study and teaching

| Multicultural education

| Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

| Christianity and culture

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical and Institutional Frameworks: -- 1. Multicultural theological education and leadership for a church without walls / David V. Esterline -- 2. Toward an intercultural approach to theological education for ministry / José Irizarry -- 3. Multicultural theological education: on doing difference differently / Anna Case-Winters -- 4. Resources for intercultural transformation of theological education from the Latino/a margins / Luis R. Rivera-Rodriguez -- 5. Libraries and multicultural theological education: beyond nostalgia / Kenneth Sawyer -- 6. From sideline to center: teaching and learning for a racially and culturally diverse church / Deborah Flemister Mullen -- Part II. Biblical and Theological Studies: -- 7. Of every race and people / Cynthia M. Campbell -- 8. Teaching the Bible in a global context / Robert L. Brawley -- 9. The Tower of Babel and cultural diversity: a case study on engaging diversity in the classroom / Theodore Hiebert (instructor), Jennifer Blandford, Andrew Davis, Hardy Kim (students) -- 10. Reading the Bible from a postcolonial perspective / Jae Won Lee -- Part III. Ministerial Formation: -- 11. Teaching pastoral care and counseling in the cross-cultural classroom / Homer U. Ashby Jr. -- 12. "La gran encisera": Barcelona and education for interfaith ministry in the shadow of terror / Robert A. Cathey -- 13. Open worship: strategies of hospitality and questions of power / Gary Rand -- 14. The formation of ministerial authority and identity: cross-cultural experiential education /Joanne Lindstrom -- 15. Teaching afresh the history of global Christianity / DAvid D. Daniels III -- 16. Multicultural theological education in a non-Western context: Africa, 1975-2000 / Ogbu U. Kalu