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This study explored the professional preparation of students in online classes at a Christian theological seminary. Concerns of theological education involve the capacity or incapacity of community development and embodied learning in online education. Using a theoretical framework drawn from communities of practice, professional clergical preparation professional, and Gee’s dimensions of identity development, the researcher focused the analyses on students’ written texts located in the discussion board fora of the online courses. The study concludes that students’ discussions evince dimensions of the development of professional identity and pastoral imagination as described in Foster, Dahill, Golemon, & Tolentino (2005). Additionally, stories shared on the discussion fora, both by the instructors and the classmates who had a range of experience in first careers or in pastoral ministry, built a shared repertoire of professional practice as inherent in a Community of Practice
