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to Catalyst on-line. United Methodist (UM) seminarians have been receiving Catalyst
in their mail boxes since 1973.
What is Catalyst?
Four issues of Catalyst are mailed
each academic year to some 5,000 UM theological students in more than 100
seminaries in the U.S.A.
AFTE
Catalyst is a project of A
Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE).
What is the John Wesley Fellowship
Program?
Each year AFTE awards up to five John Wesley Fellowships to assist gifted United
Methodists in their doctoral studies at the finest universities.
Back Issues
Several back issues of Catalyst are
now available on-line.
Subscriptions
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seminarians, and is available to all others for $5 per year.
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Welcome to Catalyst
Online! United Methodist (UM) seminarians have been receiving Catalyst
in their mail boxes since 1973. Since then our aims have remained
constant:
- to alert seminarians to significant resources within
the classical Christian tradition;
- to highlight evangelical perspectives on Christian
faith and practice;
- to stimulate serious consideration of classical
Christianity; and
- to encourage a seminary experience fully within the
Wesleyan tradition of uniting the two so long divided, knowledge and
vital piety
The current issue is volume 38.1,
November, 2011:
Premodern Biblical Exegesis:
Why Does It Matter
For Preachers And Teachers Today?
By J. Todd Billings, Associate
Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary, and author of
Union with Christ: Reframing Theology and Ministry for the Church (Baker
Academic, 2011). This article is adapted from his book, The Word of God for
the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
(Eerdmans, 2010).
How John Wesley Read The Bible
By Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies,
Duke Divinity School, and author of Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s
Practical Theology (Abingdon, 1994).
This article distills: “The Rule of
Christian Faith, Practice, and Hope: John Wesley on the Bible,” Methodist
Review 3 (2011): 1–35.
Teenagers And The Art of Translation: Parents Matter
Most
Excerpted from Almost
Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Oxford, 2010) by Kenda
Creasy Dean, edited and abridged by Nathan T. Stucky.
Consider Wesley
By Dr. Henry
H. Knight III, Donald and Pearl Wright Professor
of Wesleyan Studies, Saint Paul School of Theology.
AFTE is
committed to the renewal of United Methodist theological education in a more
evangelical direction. To contribute to this task, AFTE provides the church
with first-rate scholars trained in the classical Wesleyan tradition to fill
faculty positions.
Fellowships
are usually given for four years. At present, the average fellowship grant is
$10,000 per academic year. With approximately 12 fellows in the program at
any one time, AFTE spends nearly $120,000 each year on direct grants.
Interested in more information? Click Here!
Interested
in doctoral work? You may want to apply to A Foundation for Theological
Education (AFTE) for financial assistance. Since 1977, over $2.5 million in
grants have been awarded to 106 John Wesley Fellows. These grants now average
$10,000 per year for four years.
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future issues. We are also happy to receive names and addresses of seminary
students, faculty, and administrators who would appreciate receiving print
copies of Catalyst.
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