April 14-16, 2016 Chicago, IL
Engaging Sacred Texts for Teaching Religious Leadership
The ARL’s spring 2016 annual theme was Engaging Sacred Texts for Teaching Religious Leadership
It focused on the following questions:
- How do we, as teachers and leaders, engage sacred texts in the teaching and practice of leading?
- How do theological perspectives dictate the ways in which we approach text in the teaching of religious leadership?
- What are the methodological assumptions that we employ in our engagement with sacred texts for leadership formation?
- What are the pedagogical practices or implications for engaging sacred texts for leadership formation?
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Presenters included:
David Forney (Charlottesville, VA), Erica Martin (Seattle, WA), Mark Lau Branson (Pasadena, CA), Scott Hagley (Pittsburgh, PA)
Here are notes from the presentations as interpreted by Steve Thomason.
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Presidential Address by Kyle Small
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Matthew and Learning Communities by Mark Lau Branson
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Holy Dissent: Teaching Religious Leaders to Preach AGAINST the Text by Erica Martin
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Response by Steve Sprinkle
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What’s the Source: Biblical Authority, Social Sciences, and Leadership Studies in Theological Education by David Forney
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Response by Carson Reed
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Rob Muthiah leading our pedagogy session
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Words that Disclose World: Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of the Text, Situated Learning, and Leadership Formation by Scott Hagley
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Response by Steve Sprinkle
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Shelly Trebesch responds to Scott Hagley
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