The last few years have seen a flood of courses on the Internet in higher education. This increase has seen institutional stakeholders wrestle with decisions about committing funds, faculty, staff, and other resources to this new educational forum, in the midst of uncertainties …
Using the 44-item list of behaviors and attributes of successful priests identified through a focus group study by Ippolito et al., In Fulfillment of Their Mission (2008), and five new items primarily focused on multi-cultural issues, we sought to develop and validate a new psyc…
The researcher conducted a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study to expand the literature on student–faculty relationships in graduate-level theological education. This research answered the following research question: What is the male M.Div. student’s experience of th…
The Latin American Church has yet to reach its full potential as a center for church planting and missionary sending initiatives. Latin America’s current lack of significant missionary sending efforts coupled with the fact that it is considered a “reached” part of the world has …
The seminary endeavor has transitioned from a primarily residential full-time undertaking to a project assumed by individuals in a multiplicity of life-stages and in less traditional and less-residency-oriented formats. The burgeoning modality of competency-based theological edu…
Sunset International Bible Institute (formerly known as Sunset School of Preaching) began operation in 1962 and has continuously operated as a non-conventional ecclesial training school for ministers and missionaries of the Churches of Christ. The school’s establishment introduc…
This study explores how seminary professors in North America perceive their role as facilitators of whole-person, redemptive transformation. Little research exists which explores the intersection between a “formational model” of theological education (Aleshire 2021) and an incre…