Report of the Anglican Theological Education Commission - Recommendations
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- Date
- 1969 August
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Bishop of Saskatoon
- Seconder
- Ven. D.P. Watney
- Text of motion
- 1. This General Synod endorses the recommendation of the Commission that theological education, if it is to meet the challenge of the Seventies, must become ecumenical, flexible, and so structured at its various levels as to provide for the total membership of the Church; and to this end recommends that consultation with our Colleges and with other Churches be initiated by the National Executive Council in consultation with the Committee on Ministry.
- 2. This General Synod commends to our Colleges and to the whole Church the New Model for Theological Education as set out in the Commission Report, and requests each College to move as rapidly as possible, in continuing consultation with the Committee on Ministry and with other Colleges, towards the implementation of the principles involved.
- 3. This General Synod recognizes the need for (a) a more realistic and equitable scale of College fees, (b) a national policy on student grants and bursaries, and (c) some national system of co-ordinating financial assistance and/or subsidies to colleges and training centres, and refers this need to the Committee on Ministry for action and report.
- 4. This General Synod, having heard with interest that Advisory Committees on Postulants for Ordination (ACPO) are being established in each Ecclesiastical Province at the request of the House of Bishops, and under the direction of the Committee on Ministry, recommends the development of this principle of selection and evaluation along the lines set out in the Commission's Report, providing always that it be administered with common sense and in consultation with diocesan authorities.
- 5. This General Synod, recognizing the urgent need for the identification and mobilization of the total theological education resources both ecclesiastical and secular, and the consequent need for the re-deployment of our own institutional, financial, faculty and student resources; and recognizing that this will involved continuing consultation and guidance requests the National Executive Council in consultation with the Committee on Ministry to establish the necessary national agency to continue, both with our own Colleges and with the proper authorities in other Churches, the consultations begun by the Commission, and to co-ordinate and regulate under the direction of National Executive Council in consultation with the Dioceses and Colleges concerned, all matters relating to theological education, deployment of resources, and financial aid whether to individuals or institutions. Put and CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Theological education - Anglican Church of Canada
- Theological colleges - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Advisory Committee on Postulants for Ordination (ACPO)
- Anglican Theological Education Commission
- Theological education and Christian union