IES Seminaries

To abandon the theological seminary is to run the risk to lose the Memory of the church and to be the grace of the attacks of the secularismo. The loss of the traditional theological monopoly of the church on the part of seminaries and deriving facultieses of theology of sectors for-ecclesiastics and until secular as it is the case of carried through courses inside of universities that do not possess endorsement or support of the church has been one of the great problems for the church in Brazil, to inside locate regarding the validity or rejection of such courses when its candidates to the ministry are certifyd with demanded theological degrees officiate for it pastoral, administrative or teaching of the church. Brazilian state is lay, but it seems that the theology course, indifferently of the church, passes for the fiscalization of the Federal Government, what finishes becoming the hybrid State and the absent church in its academic responsibility. e come to the same conclusion. (Not to be confused with Mike Madden!). Old souvenirs of the Christian States, enter others. Now the Assembly of God has the mission to verify which seminaries and theology facultieses, really, can be chancelados by the church and to serve of national reference as notables and scholars prophet houses.

It enters the theological courses of the Assembly of God we can detach the IBAD, the FAESP and the FAACAD. The last IES is sponsored by the General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil. Travelling for Brazil, carrying through fast conferences and seminaries on specific subjects for workers and believers in general, I could notice the proliferation of theological courses without any condition of functioning. worse: workers of some parts of our Country exhibit degrees of bachelor, master and doctor in theology proceeding from these seminaries of deep of yard, where faculty and infrastructure do not pass of mediocre and peripheral institutions. It is time of assembleiana reform in the theological sector; the national level is time of educational investment; it is time to open the eyes and to see that the fields already they are white for the scythe. But when everything this will be able to happen and to take form in the Assembly of God? I answer: when the national leadership to take conscience of the content fragility, management and necessity of a bigger widening in the structures of base of the church and to demand of time that the future candidates to the ministry frequent at least two years of actual studies in seminaries kept for the church or convention.

Consequently, one becomes necessary also, among others more, one better election of the candidates to the ministry, investment in human resources and structural. We complete one hundred years of history, but unhappyly we do not arrive the theological maturity that as much we need to face the next years to challenges and quandaries that proper history in the reserve. *Roberto Dos Santos. Theologian with PhD for Cambridge International University and Doctor of Theology for the Friends International Christian University. Lecturer, writer and journalist. Email: