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Colloquium Title: Beyond Integration: Towards Wholeness in our Theological Vocation James K. A. Smith argues that the issue of theological education and vocation may more helpfully be framed around the image of "orientation" or "alignment" rather than "integration." While affirming the importance of the question that "integration" raisesnamely, the divide in faith and scholarship, various specialized disciplines, or between the church and the academySmith argues that the image is limiting. It suggests that each of these exist in semi-autonomous "domains" from which we need to find points of intersection. Conversely, this talk presents "orientation" as a more apt image. Orientation suggests goals or directions. It raises questions like what for?, Why are we doing what we're doing?, What sort of person do we want to graduate? It has a telos. James K. A. Smith (PhD Villanova University) is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University. He is author of more than 15 books, including his award-winning three-volume Cultural Liturgies project, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Baker Academic, 2009), Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Baker Academic, 2013), and Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology (Baker Academic, 2017). The Henry Center for Theological Understanding provides theological resources that help bridge the gap between the academy and the church. It houses a cluster of initiatives, each of which is aimed at applying practical Christian wisdom to important kingdom issuesfor the good of the church, for the soul of the theological academy, for the sake of the world, and ultimately for the glory of God. The HCTU seeks to ground each of these initiatives in Scripture, and it pursues these goals collaboratively, in order to train a new generation of wise interpreters of the Wordlay persons and scholars alikefor the sake of tomorrow's church, academy, and world. Visit the HCTU website: https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/ Subscribe to the HCTU Newsletter: https://bit.ly/326pRL5 Connect with us! https://twitter.com/henry_center https://www.facebook.com/henrycenter/ https://www.instagram.com/thehenrycenter/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehenrycenter