Theological Imagination courses encourage students to think theologically about current events and issues related to social, economic, and public life.Life Together courses bring together small cohorts of students in a mix of traditional classroom learning off-site service learning fellowship around meals, chapel, vocational and theological discernment and formation for ministry.All departments offer courses that address the five core commitments. The result is a curriculum that not only attends to the academic and spiritual development of our students, but also casts a vision for the future of Princeton Seminary, its teachers and scholars, and God’s church as a whole.Ĭore Commitment courses reflect a certain body of central shared values and commitments. The diversity of the learning community contributes directly to the faithful formation of our students. Relationships as contexts of learning: The diverse relationships students form in the classroom, in the community, and on campus (in the dining hall, quad, gym, chapel, and more), are all crucial sites of learning and formation.Embracing risk and failure: Princeton Seminary invites students to take risks and embrace failure as a powerful teacher and source of reflection.Students as agents: Princeton Seminary strives to empower students for ministry in the church and world, armed with the courage and confidence that emerge from God’s calling but also the humility that knows well the limits of human thinking and imagination.Students as adult learners: While students come to campus to learn, each one also brings to their degree program an informed and shaped worldview, skills, and experience.Covenant community: Life in the Princeton Seminary residential community includes formation through teaching and learning in the classroom, worship, table fellowship, and ordinary encounters of everyday life.The work of Princeton Seminary faculty is centered around these five pedagogical commitments: The curriculum facilitates students’ intellectual growth, investment in the welfare of the community, and holistic development. Our teaching approach itself revolves around the intertwined challenges of education and formation: we not only educate but also shape students during their time on campus, to become the leaders God has called them to be. At Princeton Seminary, we teach students called by God to various and diverse forms of ministry, for the sake of a world that God creates, loves, redeems, and sustains.
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