Report: Forum on Ministerial Formation if Black Church Traditions
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formation, Black church,Abstract
Church leadership is always developed contextually, never in a vacuum. Clergy leaders are shaped theologically, rhetorically, and culturally in distinct communities of faith. These communities of faith may not use the language of formation, but they are forming women and men for ministry. The task of field education is to make possible the dance between the formation students receive before they attend seminary and the formation they receive upon matriculation. Each student must begin a dance that will last a lifetime. The black church’s traditions of formation, when not excluded from the dance floor, enrich the church’s leaders across the divides of culture, gender, and theology.Downloads
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