More Local than the Locals: An Ethnoscopic Analysis of a Philippine Seminary

Danyal Qalb. Most Filipinos are oral learners; seminaries in the Philippines are often copies of their Western counterparts with minimal contextualization. Using Thigpen’s four-step “ethnoscopic analysis,” I embark on a mission to examine theological education in the Philippines from cultural, scriptural, missiological, and pedagogical perspectives. The findings from the ethnoscopic analysis prompted significant changes inContinue reading “More Local than the Locals: An Ethnoscopic Analysis of a Philippine Seminary”