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The 9Th Baptist International Conference on Theological Education July 5-7, 2019 | Nassau, the Bahamas The 9th Baptist International Conference on Theological Education July 5-7, 2019 | Nassau, The Bahamas BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE A BWA Division on Mission, Evangelism, and Justice Quinquennial Event TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME: Trisha Miller Manarin............……...........................……..…………………………….............……..............…….…………….…1 STUDYING IS SERVING: Daniel Carro…………………………………........................………………………...................................………2 TABLE POETRY………………………………………….............………..……………………………….........................................………………………4 SCHEDULE……………………………………………..……………….............……………….........................................………………………….……….5 PLENARY PAPERS IN ORDER OF SESSIONS (Please note these are working papers) Molly T. Marshall……………………..………………………………………………....................………………………………......….….…............8 Eiko Kanamaru………………………………………………………………………………………………………...........................…….……...........18 Valérie Duval-Poujol………………………………………….......…………………………………………….........................…......……………..33 Paul S. Fiddes………………………………………………………........…………………………………………………...........................……….….47 André Bokundoa-Bo-Likabe…………………………………………………………………………........................……………….....……........59 Regina Sudheer-Alexander……………………………………………………………………........................……………………...……….........69 MUSIC: Guilherme Almeida, Instrumentalist………………………………….........………….........................................................………84 MY JOURNEY TO MINISTRY SO FAR: Beatrice Anayo………………………………….........…………..................................………91 BICTE is intended to facilitate a variety of conversation around this year’s theme. The BWA recognizes that there are differing theological convictions and perspectives and has sought through the presenters, responders and breakout session leaders to give intentional expression to the this diversity of theological convictions. The papers printed in this book are in part for ease of reference. Papers and presentations, orally and printed, are the perspective of the presenter alone and do not necessarily reflect the position of the BWA. Welcome to the ninth Baptist International Conference on Theological Education (BICTE)! It is with great joy we enter into these next three days together. For a little over two years, this conference has been in the making. From the early discussions with now General Secretary Emeritus Neville Callam to conversations with General Secretary Elijah Brown along with Chair of the Commission on Theological Education Tomás Mackey, this conference has taken shape and is now ready to be experienced. Our feet have brought us from near and far as we re-imagine and re-read together during these next three days. The Division on Mission, Evangelism, and Justice is thankful for all who helped prepare for BICTE. The BWA staff (present and past) works above and beyond to put together quality events and programs – thank you, friends. Many have helped think through the theme Re-Imagining, Re-Reading HERstory in the Church. A special thanks goes to Guilherme Almeida, Louise Kretzschmar, Tomás Mackey, Melody Maxwell, Beth Newman, and Frank Rees for your thoughtful insight and support. We are blessed to welcome Ali Taylor as she creates a mosaic during the conference affirming our call to be creators filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit. You can learn more about her work at http://mosaicreations.co.uk/. Thank you to the six major presenters, as well as all the respondents and participants. We give thanks for our sponsors: Diamond: Lucinda O. Manarin Platinum: Duke K. and Winona McCall, Sr. Foundation Gold: Baylor University/Truett Seminary, Morling College Silver: Samford University/Beeson Divinity School, Twelfth District Church of Christ in Thailand Bronze: Baptist General Association of Virginia, Mountain Brook Baptist Church During our time of learning, sharing, and reflecting at BICTE we will be engaging in conversations with each other that will inform and challenge our theological practices. Additionally, we have prayerfully crafted several opportunities for devotion and evening prayers in order to provide a fruitful place for connection with God, with ourselves, and with each other through song and common prayer, Scripture meditation, and proclamation. We dedicate these learning spaces and liturgical experiences to our Divine Master. Together, we gather anticipating that God’s work around us and within us will guide our academic pursuit and inspire us forward as we re-imagine and re- read. Thank you for being here. Joy and Grace, Trisha Miller Manarin Coordinator, BWA Division on Mission, Evangelism, and Justice STUDYING IS SERVING Daniel Carro Baptist World Alliance First Vice President, 2010-2015 The John Leland Center for Theological Studies, USA Beyond the many antinomies to which the Christian faith has been submitted by its members during the over 20 centuries of the history of Christianity -homoousios vs. homoiousios, salvation by faith vs. salvation by deeds, Calvin vs. Arminius, Conservative vs. Liberal, personal gospel vs. social gospel, liberation vs. oppression, to mention just a few- a new contradiction seems to resurface today from among the mists of the past for seminarians: study or serve. Families require time and engagement. Daily jobs require attention and creativity. Academic courses require works of difficult production. Churches require tasks that are not simple to perform. Apart from the normal scarcity of neurons, everything takes time. Who can do everything? Who can fulfill every detail, every demand, every request? Every committed seminary student -Leland is not the exception- could write a book about the difficult art of seminary survival. And here the antinomy shows up: what is more important: serving or studying? Let me dismiss the antinomy in one phrase: studying is also serving. Any person who really wants to serve God and others needs to study to know how to serve. Three years spent the apostles next to our Lord learning how to serve and also serving. The first priority for a student of the ministry is to study in order to serve. Studying is not done only in the library, even when books are the best friends of the human being. A seminarian lives to study. When he/she goes to class, he/she studies the subject and studies the teacher. When he/she goes to church, he/she studies the church and studies the pastor. When he/she travels out on the streets of the city he/she studies society and studies his contemporaries. Study, study and study. Why do students do it? Perhaps some do it following the promise of Daniel, “Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever” (Dan 12:3 NRS), perhaps others do it under the advice of John: “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil but imitate what is good” (3 Jo 1:11 NRS), and some others because they feel the urge to answer intimate questions between them and God. In any case, a call to serving is indeed a call to study. Of course: if you are not planning to practice what you study do not waste your time studying. On the other hand, however, it is necessary to discover that studying is also serving. When you really study, you do not waste your time, you take advantage of it. The one who has studied a problem is better prepared to solve it. The one who knows a matter thoroughly can treat it more quickly and efficiently than the one who does not know it. Studying is not just preparing to serve sometime in the future. Studying is serving the Lord right now in becoming a capable, skillful, competent laborer, useful for service to whatever God may ask. There is no real antinomy between study and service. Studying is serving and serving is studying. A true seminarian learns soon to be a student because he/she has realized that being a student is going to be his/her duty for ever in ministry. Nobody ever knows everything about life, everything about being a Christian, everything about philosophy and theology, everything about the post-modern world, everything about ministry, and so on. There is always room to learn. We are all apprentices, students, disciples. There is only one true Teacher, the rest of us are just attentive learners. All of us learn from and serve the only Lord and Savior Christ Jesus either when rising or going to bed, by striving or resting, or engaging in the one and many of the infinite circumstances of life succinctly described in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. This is why at Leland we do not teach a student what to think, but how to think. The old Chinese 2019 BICTE CONFERENCE 2 proverb goes: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” A true seminary empowers their students with the tools that they need on a daily basis to prepare for ministerial duties, inside and outside the Christian community. The seal of the John Leland Center reads: “Knowing Christ, Serving Christ.” Not only in theological education, the whole of Christian life is a calling to service, and a call to educate ourselves. We serve Christ by knowing Christ. We study and we encourage others to study. Studying is more than memorizing the latest trends. Studying is opening our hearts and minds to allow us to “welcome with meekness the implanted Word that has the power to save your souls” (Jam 1:21 NRS). Studying is service and studying is joy. Remember the words of the Bengali philosopher and educator Rabindranath Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
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