Wider Theologians Posts
-
January 29, 2010
Biblical Evidence that Pastors Are Called to Serve as Wider Theologians: Part 2
Continuing from part 1…
As the sun of the apostolic age set, pastors were appointed to carry on the ministerial and theological leadership of the church. In Peter’s first epistle we see him passing the baton of church leadership to his “fellow elders,” exhorting them to shepherd the flock in a way consistent with the model Christ had showed him (1 Peter 5:1-4). And John, late in life, addresses his third epistle to …
0 Comments -
January 23, 2010
Biblical Evidence that Pastors Are Called to Serve as Wider Theologians: Part 1
As mentioned, I’m working on an essay that attempts to make a preliminary case for pastors serving as wider theologians to the whole ecclesia. Of course, nearly everyone will agree that pastors should function as astute local theologians to their own parishes. While a point worth making, it’s not the one I’m trying to make with this essay. My intent is to argue that the pastoral community must once again serve as wider …
2 Comments -
January 18, 2010
Biblical Warrant for Pastors Serving as Wider Theologians?
I’m working on a follow-up essay to my taxonomy paper, focusing more tightly this time on the notion of “wider theologians” — those particular theologians who serve the theological needs of the wider ecclesia (think Jenson, Vanhoozer, Hodge, Bavinck, Pannenberg, Franke, etc.). The pressing question of the paper is, “Who should serve as the church’s wider theologians?” Currently our wider theologians reside almost exclusively in the academy. Historically, they resided in our churches. Does it matter?
If you’ve followed the SAET for any length of time, you’ll know that we …
1 Comment
Welcome
Welcome to saet-online.org, the online home of The Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET). The SAET is an organization dedicated to assisting pastor-theologians in producing biblical and theological scholarship for the renewal of orthodox theology, for the renewal of the church.
Operating within the historic evangelical tradition, the SAET believes the contemporary bifurcation between the pastoral calling and theological formation has resulted in the loss of a distinctly ecclesial voice in orthodox theology. The SAET seeks to resurrect this voice...(continue reading)SAET Bloggers
Recent Posts
- Doug Sweeney and Owen Strachan-The Essential Edwards Collection
- Mark Noll on Methodological Naturalism
- David Rudolph on “Paul’s Rule in All the Churches”
- Stephen Witmer on Sin
- Eternity Bible College Now Offering Online Classes
- Ecclesial Theology and SBL
- Pastor-Theologians and Academic Theologians: Toward a Healthy Division of Labor, Part 3
- Ecclesial Theology as the Foundation of Popular Theology
- Spring Gathering of the Second Fellowship
- Piper on PhD’s
Article Categories
- Academic Theology (12)
- Anglican (1)
- Articles (1)
- Book Review (6)
- Carl Trueman (1)
- Church (2)
- Church History (1)
- Commentaries (1)
- Conference (1)
- David Rudolph (1)
- Doug Sweeney (1)
- Ecclesial Theologian (4)
- Ecclesial Theology (29)
- Ecumenism (1)
- Eric Bargerhuff (1)
- Evangelicalism (2)
- First Fellowship (2)
- George Marsden (1)
- Historical Method (1)
- Jeff Hubing (1)
- Joel Lawrence (1)
- John Piper (3)
- John Webster (2)
- Jonathan Edwards (2)
- Kevin Vanhoozer (2)
- Mark Noll (1)
- Martin Hengel (1)
- Matt Kim (1)
- Owen Strachan (1)
- Pastor Ministry (1)
- Pastor-theologian (22)
- Popular Theology (2)
- Preston Sprinkle (2)
- Resurrection (3)
- Robert Jenson (2)
- SAET Fellow Publications (6)
- SAET Fellowship (6)
- SBL (1)
- Second Fellowship (4)
- Soteriology (1)
- Stephen Witmer (1)
- Symposium (4)
- Systematic Theology (2)
- The SAET (4)
- Theology (2)
- Tom Wright (4)
- Uncategorized (7)
- Wider Theologians (3)