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Abstract

"This paper will be a case study assessing the status of and challenges facing theological education in a predominately African American United States branch of a global Pentecostal denomination, the Church of God in Christ. Three questions will frame the study. What is the Christian identity that the theological education program seeks to foster? What is the COGIC message and experience that the theological education program will transmit? What is the kind of ministry to which the theological education program will orient itself? My thesis is that theological education in the Church of God in Christ reflects its identification with two ecclesial poles: Evangelicalism and the Black Church. While the COGIC has yet to develop a theological education curriculum specifically design to transmit the message and experience of the church, the current theological education models do address some of the issues confronting the ministry of the denomination and advance the theological agenda of various constituencies in the church."