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Transformational Travel for Seminarians: Reading James in Haiti
Author(s) -
Grieb A. Katherine
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00167
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , reading (process) , divinity , context (archaeology) , sociology , state (computer science) , pedagogy , history , psychology , political science , law , social psychology , computer science , archaeology , algorithm
How will we teach the Bible in the twenty‐first century? This essay is intended to contribute to that larger discussion in three ways: after a brief introduction, I will, first, state some general working assumptions about the present situation of the church and about teaching the New Testament in the context of a seminary or divinity school; second, I will describe the course “Reading James in Haiti” which I designed and taught in the Spring of 1902; finally, and much more briefly, I will comment on the implications of transformational travel experiences like this one for the ability of seminarians to understand New Testament texts more deeply than the classroom setting allows.