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This study explored the conceptual worlds of first- and second-career seminarians enrolled in the M.Div. program at New Creation Theological Seminary (NCTS), a mainline Protestant school. Research questions were: 1) What themes do first- and second-career seminarians use to describe their seminary experience? 2) How do first and second-career seminarians relate these themes into a system of thought (mindmap)? 3) How do the systems of thought described by first- and second-career seminarians compare? 4) Do first- and second-career seminarians identify an over-arching message to their theological education? Using interactive qualitative analysis, the researcher discovered 12 key themes common to the conceptual worlds of first- and second-career students. For both types of students, school bureaucracy and church requirements were drivers that influenced many aspects of the seminary experience. The outcomes of the seminary experience were transformation in knowledge, pastoral skills, and sense of vocation. Students became satisficers to meet the competing demands of school, church, and family. Students reported that theological education required vigorous engagement and self-discipline. Students affirmed that God was active in their life worlds. The life worlds of younger and older participants were similar in terms of themes and in the way that these themes combined into mindmaps, although second-career students were more frustrated than first-career students about the way that seminary shrank life outside of school. First-career students reported that the seminary’s over-arching message was about community. Second-career students concluded that the over-arching message was about training for ministry. Ecological theory suggests that students received the over-arching messages that they did because of how they had been shaped by involvement in various social microsystems. Two distinctive findings of the study were the importance that participants placed on fulfilling church requirements for ordination and the role that campus facilities played in assisting or hindering their theological studies. Based on the study’s results and previous literature about seminary students, the researcher proposed a model to describe student experience in seminary. / text

[pt] A Justificação é a mais importante das doutrinas das Igrejas oriundas da Reforma evangélica do século XVI. Sua redescoberta decorreu do anseio de Martin Lutero por encontrar um Deus gracioso. Hoje é imprescindível que ela seja rediscutida sob novos pressupostos. Tal releiura deve ocorer em perspectiva libertadora, o que equivale dizer que deve considerar o grito angustiado do homem moderno sedento por justiça como seu critério autenticador. A Justificação deve superar a uma atitude de fé que se mostre passiva ante os desafios da vida. Corretamente experienciada ela deve reverberar-se em atos solidários com todos os que sofrem, em inserção transformadora da realidade histórica. A Justificação é, pois um evento de caráter salvífico que irrompe no coração humano, mas que pela ação dos justificados, expande-se por toda a criação, adquirindo amplitude cósmica. Servindo-se do pensamento teológico de Jürgen Moltmann, esta tese objetiva fundamentalmente resgatar a vitalidade libertadora da experiência da Justificação, e com isto, fecundar a tradição metodista wesleyana brasileira. Na verdade se procurará estabelecer um diálogo entre Moltmann e John Wesley visando a sedimentar a práxis libertadora dos cristãos de tradição wesleyana brasileira, fazendo do Evangelho de Cristo uma oferta de salvação mais plausível para o homem moderno. / [en] The Justification is the most important of th doctrines of the churches coming from the reform of the XVI century. Its rediscovery passed from the desire of Martin Luther to find a mercyfull God. Nowadays it is indispensable its rediscussion, but under new pressuposts. Such a reading must be done in liberation. Perspective, what means to consider the thirsty groan for justice of the modern humann being as its autentication`s criterion. The justification must overcome an attitude of faith that behaves passive in face to the chalenges of the life. Correctly experienced it has to reflect in solidarity with all suffering people, in transforming the historic reality. The justification is an event of a salvific character that rises in human heart, however as follow of action of the justified people expanded towards all creation, acquiring cosmic dimensions. Using the theological thought of Jürgen Moltmann who aims basically to recover the liberated vitality of the experience of the justification, and with that fertilize the brazilian methodist tradition. Truely the effect will search to establish a dialogue between Moltmann and John Wesley trying to make the liberated praxis of the christians of wesleyan brazilian tradition to come true, making the gopsel of Christan offer of salvation more acceptable for the modern man.

Diante das demandas contemporâneas e em busca de sobrevivência frente à mercantilização da educação, instituições educacionais confessionais, como é o caso das instituições vinculadas à Igreja Metodista, procuram se articular em redes. Este trabalho visa enfatizar alguns pontos específicos do pensamento de John Wesley e de Edgar Morin, que possam contribuir para que essas redes não estejam vinculadas apenas aos aspectos administrativo-financeiros, mas que tenham, concomitantemente, elementos de reflexão que encerrem uma carga de sentido, encontrado na confluência da tradição ou seja, na visão teológica do iniciador do movimento metodista, com o contemporâneo, ou seja, com os desafios colocados à educação nos dias atuais, a partir do paradigma da complexidade de Edgar Morin. Essas contribuições são consideradas como fios para a tecitura da rede, tendo em vista que complexus tem como uma de suas conotações um tecido de constituintes heterogêneos inseparavelmente associados. Rede também pode ter outras conotações, como rede de segurança e para o pescador é um instrumento que garante a sobrevivência. Os elementos escolhidos como fios para tecer a rede são a antropologia, a soteriologia, no sentido de salvação social, e a criação e nova criação em John Wesley. E, ainda, aspectos da antropologia, solidariedade e crise de destino da humanidade, e educação em Edgar Morin. A tecitura é apresentada a partir do cotejamento desses conceitos/fios. Exemplificando e apontando sinais de esperança, apresento algumas práticas e experiências já em vigor na Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, onde encontro aproximações e possíveis relações com o material apresentado como os fios e o tecido da rede. Concluo o trabalho retomando e aprofundando os pontos de confluência entre alguns aspectos dos pensamentos dos dois autores, como suporte para a defesa do que considero a educação necessária para o atual momento histórico, portanto aquela que proponho que deva ser desenvolvida pela Rede Metodista de Educação. / In face of contemporary demands and struggling to survive against the commodification of education, confessional educational institutions, as is the case of the institutions related to the Methodist Church, seek to articulate into networks. This paper aims to highlight some specific points of John Wesleys and Edgar Morins thought, which may allow that such networks be linked not only to the administrative and financial aspects, but have at the same time, elements of reflection carrying a load of meaning, to be found at the confluence of 'tradition', that is, the theological vision of the father of the Methodist movement, with the contemporary vision, that is, the challenges posed to education today, from Edgar Morins paradigm of complexity viewpoint. These contributions are considered as threads weaving the fabric of the network, given that the complexus has as one of its connotations a tissue of heterogeneous constituents, inseparably bound. A net may also have other connotations, such as the "safety net", while for the fisherman, it is an instrument that ensures survival. The elements chosen as threads to weave this network are anthropology, soteriology, in the sense of social salvation, and the creation and 'new creation' in John Wesley. And still, aspects of anthropology, solidarity and the humanitys fate crisis, and education in Edgar Morin. The texture is shown based on a careful examination and comparison of these concepts/threads. Exemplifying and pointing to signs of hope, I describe some experiences and practices being used at the Methodist University of São Paulo, where we find similarities and possible connections with the material presented as the threads and the fabric of the network. I conclude this recovering and examining carefully points of the confluence between some aspects on the thoughts of the two authors as support of defense of what I consider the necessary education for the current historical moment, therefore, the one which I propose that should be developed by Methodist Educational Network.

How to create dance archives as ‘meaningful’ and ‘attractive’ tools for new creation? In 2013, Ong Keng Sen (Singapore International Festival of Arts) together with The Saison Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, called to life a project on archiving dance, which subsequently became the Archive Box Project. In the following years, it was realized in three phases oscillating between mediation, collaborative research and artistic practice. Seven participating Japanese artists, who each created an archive of their own works, developed individual, often contrary concepts of the archiving process.

[pt] O uso do texto de Rm 5,12-21 quase exclusivamente nos debates a respeito da origem e da universalidade do pecado levou a uma supervalorização da discussão a respeito do segmento 12d, passando quase desapercebidos aspectos fundamentais para a compreensão da mensagem teológica contida no texto paulino. Um desses aspectos transcurados foram as alusões a Is 53,11-12. A presente pesquisa pretende ser uma contribuição para que se possa perceber os efeitos produzidos por essas alusões nos contemporâneos de Paulo, as quais trazem à mente dos ouvintes/leitores a figura do Servo que por seu conhecimento justifica a muitos presente no texto isaiano, como também as categorias bíblico-teológicas do Novo Êxodo e da Nova Criação contidas no seu contexto e com as quais está profundamente interligado. A partir disso, a recuperação do valor dessas alusões possibilitaria uma compreensão mais adequada do potencial hermenêutico, teológico e retórico da perícope, o que resultaria em uma verdadeira contribuição para o debate teológico tendo-se em vista o espaço que a perícope paulina ocupa em tal debate. A metodologia a ser utilizada será aquela proposta por G. K. Beale, a qual, contemplando os aspectos sincrônicos e diacrônicos da pesquisa, propõe uma análise exegético-interpretativa, mostrando-se assim muito adequada para que se possa perceber a intenção de Paulo ao utilizar o texto isaiano. / [en] The use of Romans 5:12-21 almost exclusively in debates regarding the origin and universality of sin has resulted in the super valorization of the discussion on segment 12d, with fundamental aspects for the understanding of the theological message comprised in the Pauline text going almost unnoticed. One of the pretermitted aspects was the allusions to Isaiah 53:11-12. The present research aims to contribute to a perception of the effects these allusions produced on Paul s contemporaries. They make the hearers/readers picture the image of the Servant who by his knowledge will justify many, present in Isaiah s text, as well as the biblical-theological categories of the New Exodus and the New Creation comprised in its context and to which it is strongly interconnected. Following that, the recovery of the value of these allusions would enable a more adequate understanding of the hermeneutical, theological and rhetorical potential of the pericope, which would result in a true contribution for the theological debate, considering that Paul s pericope plays an important role in such debate. The methodology used in this study will be that proposed by G. K. Beale, which, by contemplating the synchronic and diachronic aspects of the research, proposes an exegetical and interpretative analysis, therefore proving itself perfectly adequate to enable the perception of Paul s intention when using Isaiah s text.