What is it about?
The true object of Christian truth is a person, Jesus Christ. It is only through this perspective that Christians engage with a reality which is divorced from its relationship to God but which also has been restored in Jesus Christ. The article considers the implications this understanding of truth has for the way we approach theological education. Theological education has to do lead its learners to faith, hope and love to reflect and realise truth in the world.
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Why is it important?
Theological education is about more than just information about the Bible or different theological doctrines. It engages with the whole person to make the learner see themselves, God and reality in a particular way. This transformation can only occur if we engage with theological truth as grounded on the person of Jesus Christ. In doing so, theology remains true to the object which it is investigating by bowing to, and pursuing, God's definition of truth.
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Theological truth founded on the person of Jesus Christ engages with the post-modernistic critique of other truth claims without falling victim to relativism or fideism. It grounds the theological student within the broken reality which challenges theology's truth claims and yet provides the momentum to transform existing reality and create a new future.
Dr Andre van Oudtshoorn
Perth Bible College
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This page is a summary of: Theological Epistemology and Non-Foundational Theological Education, Journal of Adult Theological Education, May 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/1740714113z.0000000005.
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