Daniel Aleshire

Becoming Cosmopolitan

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Glassroom Learning

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Internet-based distance education in theological education is pilloried by some and celebrated by others. Jason Mills does neither. He provides a valuable map for assessing distance education in terms of theological education goals. While this educational approach is effective for some, it appears ineffective for others, and perhaps least effective at some of the qualities most important for religious leadership. Glassroom Learning provides much-needed analysis apart from advocacy or indictment.”

Integrating Work in Theological Education

Discipleship & Christian Education

“The primary way schools do their work is to divide large subject areas into smaller parts. The primary way that pastors do their work is to combine information from multiple sources. The perennial challenge for theological educators is to connect the parts that schools use with the integrated combinations that pastors use. Integrating Work in Theological Education addresses this very issue thoughtfully and comprehensively, and does so more effectively than any resource I have ever read.”

Keeping Faith in Fundraising

Work, Money & Leadership

“The relatively abundant literature on fundraising for Christian organizations or institutions includes much about the technology of fundraising but little substantive biblical interpretation, thoughtful applied theology, or personal history that, together, form the substructure for a fundraiser's efforts. This book does exactly the opposite. If deep Christian conviction has brought you to leadership positions that require fundraising, this book will teach you how to be authentically Christian as you undertake the task.”

Piety and Plurality

History & Biography

“Piety and Plurality completes Glenn Miller's comprehensive and informed history of American Protestant theological education. With compelling argument and winsome storytelling, Miller rightly identifies the sources and movements that have resulted in a grand diversification of theological education since the 1960s. This era has many stories that unfold in different plots, and even though few have come to their definitive conclusion, Miller deftly explicates each of them with precision and accuracy.”

The Dean’s Demise

Fiction

“Dean Wolfe is a sexual predator in the 1980s who leaves a path of human destruction without remorse. His sins are ancient, but the process by which the university deals with them is cumbersome by today's standards. This is a troubling narrative about abusive behavior in a divinity school, the predator's attempt to recast himself as victim, the university's instincts to attend to its best interests, and the elusive struggle for justice. The narrative is chilling and thought-provoking, woven with threads of realism, trauma, and theological insight.”

The Hope of the Gospel

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Mark Young writes as thoughtfully as an evangelical and as insightfully as the president of a leading American seminary. Evangelical theological educators should read this book because it will remind them of the gifts that have distinguished this evangelical movement and point them to the generative work that needs to be undertaken to extend those gifts into the future. Others should read this book because it gives needed clarity to the identity confusion evangelicalism is experiencing and provides valuable insight into the work of evangelical theological schools.”

Theological Education

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Theological educators constantly study the subjects they want their students to learn. Rarely, however, do theological educators turn their biblical, theological, historical, and social analytic skills on their own work. This volume bridges that gap thoughtfully and expansively. While its context is the evangelical Protestant theological education in Australia embodied in the work of member schools of the Australian College of Theology, the issues it addresses are ubiquitous in Western Protestant theological education.”