INDICATORS OF INTEGRATION

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities; Contextual Studies

1. The student demonstrates accountability for their own learning process and decisions.

2. The student demonstrates awareness of their personal strengths and limitations and

takes responsibility for their own emotional health.

3. The student attends to their own spiritual life and formation.

4. The student is able to understand and articulate both the particularity of their own

(cultural, familial, religious, personal) story as well as its resonances and dissonances

with others’ stories, and with larger social, religious and cultural narratives.

5. The student is able to identify historic connections of their own stories with the

stories of others around the world.

6. The student demonstrates a clear appreciation of other theological perspectives and is

able to make a case for a perspective other than their own.

7. The student is able to articulate their own theology of ministry, drawing on the core

curricular areas.

8. The student practices ministry with compassion and respect for others.

9. When faced with an unexpected situation in ministry, the student is able to respond

effectively. The response will reflect the consideration of context, culture, theology

of ministry, and the appropriate arts of ministry.

10. The student has an ecclesiology, and practices the arts of ministry with integrity and

competence, grounded in their tradition, recognizing the changing nature of church

and ministry.

8/2005