Locating US Theological Education In a Global Context: Conversations with American Higher Education

CONTRIBUTORS: E. Byron Anderson K. K. Yeo Margaret Eletta Guider OSF Lester Edwin J. Ruiz Brent Waters Namsoon Kang Luis R. Rivera and David Esterline. Theological education in the United States finds itself in untested circumstances today. Rapid social change is creating an increasing multicultural multiracial and multireligious context for leadership formation. At the same time international enrollment cross-border educational initiatives student and faculty exchanges and more are connecting US theological schools with a global community of Christian teaching and learning. How do US theological institutions locate themselves within this global ecology of theological formation so as to be both responsible participants and creative shapers within it? That is how do they discern their proper place and role? It is questions like these that the contributors to this volume explore. Building on the decades-long discussion about the globalization of US theological education this book argues that in engaging such questions US theological institutions have much to gain from a sustained conversation with the burgeoning literature on the internationalization of American higher education. This research offers theological institutions a trove of insights and cautionary tales as they seek to discern their rightful place and role in educating leaders in and for a global Christian church. CONTRIBUTORS: E. Byron Anderson K. K. Yeo Margaret Eletta Guider OSF Lester Edwin J. Ruiz Brent Waters Namsoon Kang Luis R. Rivera and David Esterline.