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Seminary Faculty Reflections on Competency Based Theological Education: Confessions of a (Former) Agnostic

By Michael Morelli, PhD When Northwest Seminary and College hired me five years ago to oversee their fledgling competency-based theological education (CBTE) undergraduate programs, I was neither skeptical nor supportive. I was agnostic. Limited job prospects for a recent PhD … Continue reading

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Competency Based Theological Education for Intercultural Contexts: A Cooperative Model Between Academy, Assembly, and Agency

By Mark Naylor, DTh, Ken Jolley, MTS, and Andrés Rincón, MTh, MDiv Abstract Northwest Baptist Seminary has pioneered a model of Competency Based Theological Education (CBTE) that emerged from the integration of church ministry (assembly) and theological education (academy) resulting … Continue reading

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Considering Context in Ministry Education

By Howard Andersen, PhD Introduction In biblical exegesis, and other studies of a literary nature, context gives text its meaning. An ancient document may be poorly preserved in places, but scholars may determine the meaning of a missing word by … Continue reading

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Competency-Based Theological Education: Origins of the Immerse MDiv at Northwest Baptist Seminary

Ruth McGillivray, MA As seminary enrolment in North America declined through the early 2000s, a small Canadian school, Northwest Baptist Seminary, struggled to survive. Accepting that its conventional model of education was not producing the type of leaders needed by … Continue reading

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