THE CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY LESSON AND ITS EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
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This article deals with the problem of contemporary theological education and its epistemological and methodological issues, a topic that has aroused our scientific curiosity due to the numerous challenges that hinder the learning process of theological education. These challenges can be summarised in two aspects: the epistemological aspect and the methodological aspect, which have been addressed in the content. In order to discuss this intellectual issue, we divided the topic into an introduction, in which we presented the main frameworks of this topic, the objectives of its study and the methodology adopted, followed by three sections: in the first section, we defined the research concepts, namely the epistemological issue and the methodological issue; in the second section, we analysed the epistemological issue and its types; and in the last section, we explored the methodological issues. We concluded this paper with a series of findings derived from the analysis and exploration of these issues.
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