For over a generation there has been a widely held sense in the Church that training for ministry is too academic. Complaints that ministerial training fails adequately to equip men and women for the realities of ministry are commonplace, not only in informal conversation but in official publications. This book finds an alternative: it demonstrates why the captivity of Christian theology and education to the dictates of the universities is so damaging; it explains the alternative experiential and reflective approach to learning; and it demonstrates that this approach has a theological claim to be seen as the paradigmatic approach to Christian learning. It envisages a methodology of education and formation that will equip all in the local church for Christian discipleship.