Richard A. Rosengarten

The Scope of Our Art

“Theological educators both present and future will profit greatly from this volume's cogent and remarkably lucid meditations that limn the personal, pedagogical, and institutional dimensions of a fraught but absolutely crucial endeavor. Jones and Paulsell have accomplished the unusual feat of coaxing real unity of focus out of genuine and lasting diversity of experience. The resulting volume is rich in perspective but carries real cumulative heft; it is not incidental that it thus testifies persuasively to the challenging, vital, and important work of freestanding theological seminaries and university-related divinity schools.”

Transforming Fire

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Mark Jordan’s enactment of texts as ‘scenes of instruction’ is a thoroughly welcome, indeed crucial, intervention in the vexed world of curricula for ministry. Via the juxtaposition of texts at once staunchly ‘traditional’ and willfully ‘extra-canonical,’ his book enacts a series of reflective engagements—both of specific texts and of their comparison—that model generosity of spirit and an unmistakable, carefully calibrated critical sensibility. The book is a brief for the vitality of tradition and—what Jordan shows to be the same thing—the simple, perduring fact that all teachers are students, and all students teachers. To read closely is nothing less than to make the word flesh.”