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- Title
THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AS DEVELOPMENT IN VANUATU: 'WAYFARING' AND THE TALUA MINISTRY TRAINING CENTRE.
- Authors
Taylor, Steve; King, Phil
- Abstract
Education is essential to development. In Pacific cultures, in which the church is a significant presence, theological education can empower agency and offer analytical frames for social critique. Equally, theological education can reinforce hierarchies and dominant social narratives. This paper provides an account of Presbyterian theological education in Vanuatu. Applying an educative capability approach to a theological education taxonomy proposed by Charles Forman brings into focus the interplay between economics, context, and sustainability as mutual challenges for both development and theological education. However Forman's model does not accurately reflect the realities of Vanuatu. An alternative frame is proposed, that of wayfaring, in which knowledge-exchange is framed as circulating movements. Wayfaring allows theological education to be imagined as a development actor that affirms local agency, values networks, and subverts centralising models. This alternative model provides a way to envisage theological education, both historically in Vanuatu and into an increasingly networked future, as an actor in Pacific development.
- Subjects
VANUATU; THEOLOGICAL education; CHRISTIANITY; WAYFARING life; PRESBYTERIAN Church -- Education; COMMUNITY development; FORMAN, Charles W., 1921-1894
- Publication
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural Studies, 2019, Vol 16, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0112-5990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11157/sites-id430