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2. HANDBOOK OF TE IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY
What was Good –
Wider ecumenism
First ever book at Global level
Wide range of topics
worldwide authors
Four publishers
Edinburgh 2010 released

3. SINCE THEN?
• GROWTH IN GLOBAL SOUTH AND DECLINE IN GLOBAL NORTH - TE
• RESIDENTIAL TO NON-RESIDENTIAL TO PART TIME TO MIXED MODE TO ONLINE
• PENTECOSTAL EVANGELICAL AND CHARISMATIC CHURCHES MUSHROOMING
ALONG WITH TE WITH NEW METHODS OF LEARNING AND TEACHING IN TE
WHILE MAINLINE HOLDS ON – SUSTAINABILITY, SURVIVAL
• INTEREST IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BY EXTENSION, ONLINE LEARNING,
MIXED MODE LEARNING THOUGH RESISTANCE AMONG CHURCHES

4. Learning and teaching models
 Experience based – reflective – journey for search for meanings of life and of God
in particular contexts with experience, feelings and action based models
 Wisdom - Experience in social action, experience in other churches – ecumenical
and experience in other faiths – experience in mission placements
 Using technology, online resources, media skills and perspectives – interactive,
participatory and visual audio convergence of multimedia and their hermeneutics
 Theology for All – special pedagogical methods and approaches when taking
theological learning to different leadership in the church – Preachers, lay
ministers, Self support ministers, Bible study leaders, television preachers, radio
worship leaders, and different leadership training

5. Creative and Critical Tension in Theological
Education and Ministerial formations
Vocation or Profession
Residential or non-residential
Classroom based or praxis oriented
Fixed curricula or flexible curricula
Traditional or Revolutionary
Evangelical or Ecumenical
Movement or Institution
Theology for All or only ordinands
Cutting the one side of the tree
can inflict damage

6. EAST and WEST
 Western theology departments merging into Religion, Philosophy and Ethics departments
 East – struggle to get accreditation and affiliation to Universities
 Academic exercise to Ideological driven and emotionally related studies in Western form of
education
 East – Writers struggle to publish – salary is low that Brain drain happens as the Eastern scholars
try to move to the West
 Gaps – in TE – Global and Local – Market of meanings – Contextual meanings – taking sides
 Professional skills versus vocational calling

7. What are we doing
1. Funding agencies together at Birmingham and at Hamburg
2. Regional discussion groups on TE after 2010
3. GILD – Global Institute for Leadership Development
4. Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life – Network for South to South cooperation along
with the West – At reasonable cost with South Africa
5. NetACT, ABTEN, ATA, Serampore, TEEN, TAFTEE, ACTEA…. – Networking, accreditation and
distance based researches
6. Online resources and digitalisation
7. living as Christians amidst the communities of different faiths – marginalisation, suffering,
critical engagement with other faiths and so on

8. What can we do
 Try another edited monumental work with new emerging trends and contexts
– sharing the TE, TEE and formation experiences around the world
 Networking of accreditation and affiliation – new models of partnership –
responding to new contexts with new theological thinking while keeping
continuity
 Sustainability of TE – Bringing funding agencies together again
 Formal and non-formal TE
 New Areas of TE
 Faculty development in the south