Learning at Unexpected Times in Unlikely Places

Abstract

When I was young, years ago—decades ago, actually—I attended a Danforth Fellows Conference on improving the effectiveness of college teachers. The featured instructor was Albert C. Outler, a famous theologian from Southern Methodist University. He was billed as one of the leading scholars on Biblical authority. The program listed an impressive sample of his publications, mostly on quadrilateral methodology for theological re ection based on four sources: scripture, tradition, experience, and reason. The people around me were from the arts—as alien to me as if they were from Mars. 

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v36i6_box