What to teach (and what to learn)?
Thursday 10 October 2024
Questions for a teacher of Christian doctrine in the 21st century.
- Start Date:
- Thursday 10 October 2024
- Start Time:
- 7:30PM
- Location:
- Friends Meeting House, 1 Orchard Road, Malvern, WR14 3DA
- Speakers:
- Revd Dr Jane Craske
- Phone:
- 01684 565708
- Email:
- info@pcnmalvern.org.uk
'What to teach' was one part of the task John Wesley set for his conferring with early Methodist preachers. Since Jane first studied theology in an academic institution (in the early 1990s), and especially in the past 10-15 years, there have been significant questions about which theologians or theological movements we should study, whose voices we listen to, and who is excluded and ignored. What difference does all that make to teaching / exploring Christian doctrine now?
Jane is Director of Methodist Formation and Co-Director of the Centre for Ministerial Formation at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham. She trained for Methodist presbyteral ministry at the Wesley Study Centre, Durham and was ordained in 1996. Her doctoral research was titled, “Women and Violence: a Feminist Theological Ethical Study” and she has remained particularly interested in the boundaries and intersections between supposedly ‘different’ areas of theological study: systematic theology, ethics, contextual theologies and practical theology, always looking at theology with feminist commitment. She now teaches Christian doctrine, primarily to those training for ministry and has done that in two theological education institutions which prioritise contextual and practical approaches to theology.
This meeting will also be broadcast via zoom. Please email for details.
info@pcnmalvern.org.uk