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Interviews [3]

  • 1. Cynthia Woolever on the U.S. Congregational Life Survey

  • 2. Kenneth L. Carder on Transitioning the Newly Ordained into the Ministry

  • 3. Malcolm Warford on the Lexington Seminar for Theological Teaching & Learning

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Products [4]

  • 1. A Survey of Priests Ordained Five to Nine Years, 1991
  • 2. Ministers of the Future: A Study of Graduate Ministry Students in Catholic Colleges and Universities
  • 3. The Education of the Practical Theologian: Responses to Joseph Hough and John Cobb's Christian Identity and Theological Education
  • 4. The Education of the Practical Theologian: Responses to Joseph Hough and John Cobb's Christian Identity and Theological Education

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Projects [3]

  • 1. Research into professional preparation for ministry in the American Catholic church
  • 2. Research on Seminary Alumni
  • 3. What constitutes 'readiness' for theological studies?

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Research Articles [4]

  • 1. The Aims & Purposes of Literature: Notes from the Field
  • 2. The Poor Parson: Seminary Student Indebtedness and What Can Be Done About It
  • 3. Theological Education via Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
  • 4. TWO PROGRAMS AT HIGHEST ACADEMIC LEVELS SUPPORT UNDERREPRESENTED SCHOLARS

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Reshaping Ministry [2]

  • 1. Seminaries Build Capacity To Strengthen Congregational Ministry
  • 2. Transition into Ministry: Programs Offer Hope for Revitalizing Congregational Leadership

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Newsletters [1]

  • 1. Initiatives in Religion: Winter, 1995 [vol. 4, no. 1]

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