Contemporary Approaches to Christian Education - Jack L. Seymour

Seymour and Miller with four other experts in the field seek to clarify the agenda resources and hopes for Christian education in the twenty-first century. Gone are the days when Christian education was variously envisioned as a school a home an educational system a mission agency or a school for Christian living. These dreams revealed the conflicts Christian education was to face throughout much of the twentieth century; yet they also clarified its resources and motivated efforts on its behalf. Modern educators such as Seymour and Miller also dream of what Christian education is and what it can become. Here they investigate five approaches through which contemporary Christian educators can develop the theory and practice of Christian education: (1) religious instruction (2) faith community (3) development (4) liberation (5) interpretation. Although they explore these five vital approaches from psychological philosophical exegetical and sociological viewpoints the authors agree that the central theme is still the teaching of the Good News. It is there we will discover that we are delivered for dependency on the old ways and that we are free to move into new ways of living.

TITLE: Contemporary Approaches to Christian Education

AUTHOR: Jack L. Seymour

SKU: 9780687094936

PUBLISHER: Abingdon Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/01/1959

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 176

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 140 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm

WEIGHT: 231 gr