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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios

Measuring the Spiritual, Character, and Moral Formation of Seminarians: In Search of a Meta-Theory of Spiritual Change

Conceptual article proposing a meta-theory of positive spiritual change to undergird the development of a generalizable, reliable measurement tool for spiritual, character, and moral formation in seminarians.

KEYWORDS: psychology of religion; spiritual assessment; spiritual formation; spirituality

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios

Re-Engaging the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition in Response to Diversification and Fragmentation in Theological Education

Case study of Nazarene Theological Seminary's Wesleyan-Holiness approach to spiritual formation curriculum and assessment amid diversification and fragmentation of theological learning platforms and contexts.

KEYWORDS: assessment; curriculum; diversification; spiritual formation; Wesleyan-Holiness

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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Faculty Tidy Studios

Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry

USCCB pastoral resource (2005) guiding the development of lay ecclesial ministry through integral formation, theological preparation, professional competence, certification, and pastoral collaboration.

KEYWORDS: agents of formation; Catholicism; certification and credentialing; formation pathways; integral formation; lay ecclesial ministry; pastoral collaboration; professional competence; spiritual development; theological preparation; vocation

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Faculty, Multi-Audience/General, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios Faculty, Multi-Audience/General, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios

On the Priesthood

St John Chrysostom’s (347-407 CE) classic treatise on the dignity, responsibility, and spiritual demands of the Christian priesthood, originally written as a dialogue in six books

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; asceticism; book; early church clergy; Eastern Christianity; ecclesiastical office; moral authority; pastoral care; pastoral theology; Patristics; preaching; priesthood; spiritual formation

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