Welcome to the Theological Field Education

Floding, Matthew

ISBN 10: 1566994071 / ISBN 13: 9781566994071

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

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Editor(s): Floding, Matthew. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Welcome to the Theological Field Education
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566994071
• ISBN 13: 9781566994071
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Field education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation. Field education offers them a place to practice ministry and a space to reflect on it, to integrate theory and practice, and grow towards competency. In Welcome to Theological Field Education! eleven directors of field education in seminaries and divinity schools across North America pass on their wisdom to both students and their supervisors. Edited by Matthew Floding, director of field education at Western Seminary in Holland, Michigan, this volume covers critical topics such as the art of supervision and formation, the use of case studies and peer reflection groups, self-care and ministerial ethics, and assessment.

Formation for ministry is especially challenging at this time in the church's life. First, the explosion of knowledge, pluralism, and consumerism and a host of other complicating factors make huge demands on what a minister must know to be effective in ministry. Second, with the erosion of thick religious subcultures, the novice minister has fewer sources of practical wisdom to draw upon. The next generation of ministers, if they are to be more fully formed for ministry, depends on skilled mentoring alongside wise supervisors. This book is the tool to help them make the most of their field education experience.

About the Authors

LEE CARROLL is a collaboration between Hammett Award winning mystery novelist Carol Goodman and her poet and hedge fund manager husband, Lee Slonimsky. Their books include The Watchtower, Black Swan Rising, and The Shape Stealer. Carol and Lee live in Great Neck, New York.

Matthew Floding is general editor of the Explorations in Theological Field Education series and co-editor of the journal Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry. The Research and Publication Committee of ATFE has awarded Floding four research grants that have resulted in a dozen publications. He most recently served as Duke Divinity School’s director of ministerial formation. Rev.