<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article invites reflection on the theological purposes of the education of church leaders. It is conceived as a piece of practical theology that arises from the challenge to the Wesley House Trustees in Cambridge to reconceive and re-articulate their vision for theological education in a time of turbulence and change. I reflect on Wesley House’s inheritance as a community of formation (<italic>paideia</italic>) and rigorous scholarship (<italic>Wissenschaft</italic>); and on the opportunities offered for the future of theological education in this context by a serious engagement with both the practices and concepts of phronēsis and poiēsis and a dialogical understanding of biblical wisdom, as Wesley House seeks to offer itself as a cross-cultural community of prayer and study to an international Methodist constituency.</p></abstract>

This article invites reflection on the theological purposes of the education of church leaders. It is conceived as a piece of practical theology that arises from the challenge to the Wesley House Trustees in Cambridge to reconceive and re-articulate their vision for theological education in a time of turbulence and change. I reflect on Wesley House’s inheritance as a community of formation (paideia) and rigorous scholarship (Wissenschaft); and on the opportunities offered for the future of theological education in this context by a serious engagement with both the practices and concepts of phronēsis and poiēsis and a dialogical understanding of biblical wisdom, as Wesley House seeks to offer itself as a cross-cultural community of prayer and study to an international Methodist constituency.

The end of theological education – is wisdom the principal thing?

Holiness

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This article invites reflection on the theological purposes of the education of church leaders. It is conceived as a piece of practical theology that arises...

The end of theological education – is wisdom the principal thing?

Published Online: Apr 05, 2020

Page range: 21 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2015-0002

Keywords
ARISTOTLE, DIALOGUE, EMBODIMENT, ETHICS, FORMATION, PHRONĒSIS, POIĒSIS, REFLECTIVE PRACTICE, THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, WISDOM

© 2015 Jane Leach, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The end of theological education – is wisdom the principal thing?

Published Online: Apr 05, 2020

Page range: 21 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2015-0002

KeywordsARISTOTLE, DIALOGUE, EMBODIMENT, ETHICS, FORMATION, PHRONĒSIS, POIĒSIS, REFLECTIVE PRACTICE, THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, WISDOM

© 2015 Jane Leach, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
ARISTOTLE, DIALOGUE, EMBODIMENT, ETHICS, FORMATION, PHRONĒSIS, POIĒSIS, REFLECTIVE PRACTICE, THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, WISDOM