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Welcome to Catalyst on-line. United Methodist (UM) seminarians have been receiving Catalyst in their mail boxes since 1973.

What is Catalyst?
Four issues of Catalyst are mailed each academic year to some 5,000 UM theological students in more than 100 seminaries in the U.S.A.

AFTE
Catalyst is a project of A Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE).

What is the John Wesley Fellowship Program?
Each year AFTE awards up to five John Wesley Fellowships to assist gifted United Methodists in their doctoral studies at the finest universities.

Back Issues
Several back issues of Catalyst are now available on-line.

Subscriptions
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Catalyst On-line

Welcome
Welcome to Catalyst Online! United Methodist (UM) seminarians have been receiving Catalyst in their mail boxes since 1973. Since then our aims have remained constant: 

  • to alert seminarians to significant resources within the classical Christian tradition; 
  • to highlight evangelical perspectives on Christian faith and practice; 
  • to stimulate serious consideration of classical Christianity; and 
  • to encourage a seminary experience fully within the Wesleyan tradition of uniting the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety 

 

Current Issues
The current issue is volume 34.3, March, 2008: 

 

Rethinking the Role of Scripture  in Christian Ethics: A Précis of Singing the Ethos of God
By Brian R. Brock, author of Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture (Eerdmans, 2007)

 

The Pauline New Perspective and Wesleyan Theology
By Joseph R. Dongell, Ph.D., and Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary

 

Affirming Christian Plurality: The Emerging Church Conversation

By John R. Franke, Professor of Theology at Biblical Seminary, member of the Emergent Village coordinators group, one of its representatives to the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches, and author of Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth (Abingdon, forthcoming)

 

Building an Old Testament Library: Psalms—Daniel

By Joel M. LeMon, Ph.D., and John Wesley Fellow

 

Consider Wesley

By Dr. Henry H. Knight III, Donald and Pearl Wright Professor of Wesleyan Studies, Saint Paul School of Theology


AFTE is committed to the renewal of United Methodist theological education in a more evangelical direction. To contribute to this task, AFTE provides the church with first-rate scholars trained in the classical Wesleyan tradition to fill faculty positions. 

Fellowships are usually given for four years. At present, the average fellowship grant is $10,000 per academic year. With approximately 12 fellows in the program at any one time, AFTE spends nearly $120,000 each year on direct grants. Interested in more information? Click Here!

Grants
Interested in doctoral work? You may want to apply to A Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE) for financial assistance. Since 1977, over $2.5 million in grants have been awarded to 106 John Wesley Fellows. These grants now average $10,000 per year for four years.

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