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Transforming Theology
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This book emerges from an extensive research project into the area of transformative learning in theology in the Australian context. The project was stimulated by the recognition of the rich prior life experience of the typically older students enrolling in undergraduate theological degrees and the common claims made by various theological colle
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LES BALL is Professor of Theological Education at Sydney College of Divinity. One of Australia's most widely experiencedtheological educators, he followed an initial career as a secondary school English and languages teacher with a career of over thirty-five years in tertiary theological teaching, administration, and research.
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