28 min
Willie Jennings / The Christian Imagination: Theological Complexity, Communication, Cultivation, and Community For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
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- Christianity
Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School) joins Matt Croasmun for a conversation about the future of theology, reminding us to be looking for the opportunities in the middle of crises of theological education; he worries about the inability to hold complexity, public communication, and deep formation together in a way that shows how theology is for our very lives; he speaks to the recent aversion to pastoral ministry, which is theology for the sake of the people; he touches on the role of Christian theology in a pluralistic world, asking how theologians might learn from comedians; and he encourages all Christians to take up the theological call to courage, the call to see, listen, and and alleviate suffering, and the call to a theology of life.
Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School) joins Matt Croasmun for a conversation about the future of theology, reminding us to be looking for the opportunities in the middle of crises of theological education; he worries about the inability to hold complexity, public communication, and deep formation together in a way that shows how theology is for our very lives; he speaks to the recent aversion to pastoral ministry, which is theology for the sake of the people; he touches on the role of Christian theology in a pluralistic world, asking how theologians might learn from comedians; and he encourages all Christians to take up the theological call to courage, the call to see, listen, and and alleviate suffering, and the call to a theology of life.
28 min