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68 Mercer L. Rev. 649 (2016-2017)
Professional Identity Formation throughout the Curriculum: Lessons from Clergy Education

handle is hein.journals/mercer68 and id is 673 raw text is: Professional Identity Formation Throughout the Curriculum: Lessons from Clergy Education by Dr. Larry A. Golemon* Clergy education is undergoing radical transformation in the United States due to changes in the profession, the religious communities served, and the larger landscape of higher education. Many reformers of theological education question whether the education of pastors, priests, and rabbis should be considered professional education at all. Some call for less competence training and more formation of theological habits of interpretation and reflection; others advocate for more practical and con- textual training of skills and role-formation; and others emphasize the formation of personal character and religious piety. Yet most of these re- formers agree that the formation of pastoral and professional identity, values, and vocation is central to the educational enterprise, and should be addressed across the curriculum.' I approach this topic from the framework of the Carnegie Foundation's studies of professional education, especially the study of the education of pastors, priests, and rabbis put forth in Educating Clergy, 2 which I had the privilege of participating in as a researcher and co-author. I continue *Executive Director, Washington Theological Consortium. Stanford University (A.B., 1980); Yale University Divinity School (M.Div., 1984; S.T.M., 1986); Columbia Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1993); Emory University (Ph.D., 1998). Member, American Academy of Religion; ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (P.C.U.S.A). 1. There are many critiques of the professional model of clergy education. See gener- ally EDWARD FARLEY, THEOLOGIA: THE FRAGMENTATION AND UNITY OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION (2001); DAVID KELSEY, BETWEEN ATHENS AND BERLIN: THE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION DEBATE (2011), http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=437; REBECCA S. CHOPP, SAVING WORK: FEMINIST PRACTICES OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION (1995). For a new emphasis on leadership formation, see CRAIG VAN GELDER, THE MISSIONAL CHURCH AND LEADERSHIP FORMATION: HELPING CONGREGATIONS DEVELOP LEADERSHIP CAPACITY (2009). 2. CHARLES FOSTER, LISA DAHILL, LAWRENCE GOLEMON & BARBARA TOLENTINO, EDUCATING CLERGY: TEACHING PRACTICES AND PASTORAL IMAGINATION (2006). 649

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