Contested Issues in Training Ministers in South Africa

The purpose of this book is to engage challenging issues that are called into question during ministerial training. This is a volume presenting eleven contested issues that attend to concerns related to structures, processes, knowledge and practices within theological education. Contributors offer keen insights about how to think differently and more complexly about these matters within a changing South Africa. It is an affirmation of the multiple voices, locations, identities and positions within South African theological education, as a starting point for transformative theological education. It is hoped that these reflections can enable future ministers to confront the question of how to be in the world with the required competence, integrity and professional identity to meet the needs of church and society.

Prof. Marilyn Naidoo is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Systematic and Practical Theology, University of South Africa. She teaches Religious Education and Empirical Research with a research focus on spirituality and theological education.