Lexington Theological Seminary : 2002 Seminar

Institution Name: Lexington Theological Seminary

Address:
631 South Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40508

Phone: 859-252-0361

Key Contacts:
R. Robert Cueni, President
Philip N. Dare, Dean and Librarian
Jimmy Kirby, Professor of Church and Society
David Sharrard, Professor of Pastoral Care
Jerry Sumney, Professor of Biblical Studies
Sharon Warner, Professor of Educational Ministry

Lexington focused on the improvement of teaching and the learning environment to recapture the ideal of thinking theologically. First of all, the faculty met to review the kind of thinking and integration expected in the Senior Symposium project—a summative paper in which students are expected to express serious theological reflection. Then the faculty gathered in a retreat to consider the latest Senior Symposium class and, with the help of Deborah Core, author of The Seminary Student Writes, to evaluate student reading and writing. In another retreat, the faculty met with Victor Klimoski to consider student learning styles and begin a curriculum review framed especially by the faculty’s engagement with the issue of student theological reflection. Faculty found this process of inquiry to be “invigorating, positive, and exciting.”