Candler School of Theology at Emory University : 2006 Seminar

Institution Name: Candler School of Theology at Emory University

Address:
500 Kilgo Circle NE
Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: 404-727-6324

Key Contacts:
Theodore Brelsford, Jr. - Assistant Professor of Religion and Education
Michael Joseph Brown - Associate Professor of New Testament
Teresa L. Fry Brown - Associate Professor of Homiletics
Thomas E. Frank - Professor of Church Administration and Congregational Life and Director of Methodist Studies
Gail R. O'Day - Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Alton B. Pollard III - Director of the Black Church Studies Program and Associate Professor of Religion and Culture

Description of Institution

Candler School of Theology is grounded in the Christian faith and shaped by the Wesleyan tradition of evangelical piety, ecumenical openness, and social concern. Its mission is to educate—through scholarship, teaching and service—faithful and creative leaders for the church’s ministries in the world.

COMMITMENTS

Candler is committed to:

• scholarship and teaching that are in critical and creative dialogue with the traditions of both church and university;
• the interaction of theoretical and practical learning both in the classroom and in church and in other public settings;
• an approach to curriculum and to teaching that seeks to enhance and integrate the intellectual, personal, professional, and spiritual growth of students;
• the preparation of leaders to participate in ministries of justice and reconciliation;
• a community of faith and learning inclusive of women and men who are diverse in ethnic, economic, social, and national background;
• an educational community that embraces voices and gifts from diverse religious and theological traditions;
• an educational context and educational goals that are ecumenical and international;
• a dynamic relationship of research and learning with local church congregations;
• the fulfillment of its calling as a theological school of the United Methodist Church.

VISION STATEMENT

Candler School of Theology is an intellectually vital, internationally distinguished, and intentionally diverse university-based school of theology, committed to educating ministers, scholars of religion, and other leaders, expanding knowledge of religion and theology, deepening spiritual life, strengthening the public witness of the churches, and building upon the breadth of Christian traditions, particularly the Wesleyan heritage, for the positive transformation of church and world.

CURRICULAR VALUES

• Formation in reflective practices of leadership
• Grounding in Christian texts, traditions, theologies, and practices 
• An informed sense of one’s self and one’s ministerial vocation through appropriation and integration 
• Practitioners, leaders, and public theologians who will be generative of positive change and new possibilities for the church and world 
• Knowledge and experience of a multi-ethnic, intercultural, ecumenical, and religiously diverse world
• Critical and imaginative thinkers, responsible interpreters, effective communicators
• Basic proficiency in practical skills for ministry plus specific competencies in pockets of theological expertise