Educating For Shalom

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0802827535

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Educating for Shalom by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning. Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy. Wolterstorff develops his ideas in relation to an astonishing variety of thinkers ranging from Calvin, Kuyper, and Jellema to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant to Weber, Habermas, and MacIntyre. In the process, he critiques various models of education, classic foundationalism, modernization theory, liberal arts, and academic freedom.

Author : HeeKap Lee,Paul Kaak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811029875

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The Pedagogy of Shalom by HeeKap Lee,Paul Kaak Pdf

Based on the teachings of Jesus and a biblical foundation, this book presents a new framework for education and teaching, referred to as the shalom education model, that addresses four essential questions in education (why teach, what to teach, how to teach and who are teachers?). After explaining the theoretical background of shalom, the book investigates a range of contemporary educational issues including gender identity, bullying, disability, linguistic and cultural diversity, and social justice, and presents practical guidelines that can be applied to classroom teaching. The book also emphasizes the role of teachers as missional leaders who help students unlock their full potential.

Author : Jacqueline Jules
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512492705

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Picnic at Camp Shalom by Jacqueline Jules Pdf

When Carly unthinkingly makes fun of Sara's last name at mail call, her bunkmate refuses to be consoled. But their mutual love of music brings harmony to Shabbat dinner as well as to their friendship, and Carly finally gets the chance to reveal a secret of her own.

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080281980X

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Until Justice and Peace Embrace by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice.

Author : Fawzia Gilani-Williams
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512452426

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Yaffa and Fatima by Fawzia Gilani-Williams Pdf

Two neighbors—one Jewish, one Muslim—have always been best friends. When they both fall on hard times, can they find a way to help each other? In Fawzia Gilani's retelling of this folktale—which has both Jewish and Arab origins—differences are not always causes for conflict and friendship can overcome any obstacle.

Author : Cornelius Plantinga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802839817

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Engaging God's World by Cornelius Plantinga Pdf

An inspiring guide for developing the Christian mind extols the crucial roll of Christian higher education in the intellectual and spiritual formation of believers.

Author : Charlene Tan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811614057

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Mindful Education by Charlene Tan Pdf

This book provides original ideas and practical recommendations for educators in a post-pandemic world. We live in a world that has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students around the globe have been besieged by disruptions that threaten not only their academic learning but also their mental, emotional, and interpersonal well-being. In the midst of pressing and mounting challenges, how can schools ensure the total wellness of all their students? Beyond reactive, piecemeal, and short-term measures, how can schools enact mindful education that pays attention to wholeness in every student? Extending the current research on well-being and mindfulness, this book draws insights from Confucian and Christian traditions. These two traditions have been selected as they are widely seen to represent, and have impacted, Eastern and Western civilisations respectively for millennia. Informed and inspired by Confucian and Christian perspectives, this book proposes that mindfulness is an orientation towards wholeness, where one experiences he (harmony) and shalom (peace). Mindful education is realised through: A school community of ren (humanity) and agape (love); A transforming curriculum that centres on dao (way) and imago dei (god’s image); Empathic teachers who are motivated by shu (putting oneself in the other’s place) and the Golden Rule (do to others as you would have them do to you); and Self-directed learners who develop themselves through xiuji (self-cultivation) and spiritual disciplines. Applying ancient wisdom to contemporary settings, this book on promoting student well-being through mindful education is a useful resource for policymakers, educators, researchers, and general readers.

Author : Roy Hanschke
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683507031

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In Search of Shalom by Roy Hanschke Pdf

In an increasingly confusing and crass culture, how can modern males re-discover what makes them matter? With a new view of their own spirituality . . . Everywhere you look, the role of men in society is being attacked, belittled and dismissed as old-fashioned, unnecessary, and most disturbing of all, toxic. With this constant onslaught of negativity, many men are looking at their commonplace lives wondering “is this is all there is?” They dream of making a significant spiritual impact on their families, their neighborhoods, places of business and churches. And it doesn’t have to be just a dream. With In Search of Shalom, that dream can be reality. For Shalom is so much more than what many may think of as “peace”. It stands for the fullness of life that God planned for every person. The man who finds shalom not only experiences it for himself, but also brings it to his world. Using the Pilgrim Psalms as a guide, Christian radio personality Roy Hanschke skillfully uncovers the instructions that can leads a man on a journey of change for himself and his world. Come join the men who are finding their joy in life the way God planned it—men in search of shalom.

Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798890877451

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God's Sacred Tongue by Shalom Goldman Pdf

In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century, Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American interest in the Middle East. God's Sacred Tongue is structured around a sequence of biographical and intellectual portraits of individuals including Jonathan Edwards, Isaac Nordheimer, Professor George Bush (an ancestor of President George W. Bush), and twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson. Since the colonial period, America has been perceived as a western Promised Land with emotional, spiritual, and physical links to the Promised Land of biblical history. Goldman gives evidence from scholarship, diplomacy, journalism, the history of higher education, and the arts to show that this perception is linked to the role Hebrew and the Bible have played in American cultural history. The book's final section takes up the story of American Christian Zionism, among whose Protestant adherents political Zionism found much of its strongest support. Religious and cultural figures such as William Rainey Harper and Reinhold Niebuhr are among those who exemplify the centuries-old ties between America, the Land of Promise, and Israel, the Promised Land.

Author : Randy Woodley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467435611

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Shalom and the Community of Creation by Randy Woodley Pdf

Materialism. Greed. Loneliness. A manic pace. Abuse of the natural world. Inequality. Injustice. War. The endemic problems facing America today are staggering. We need change and restoration. But where to begin? In Shalom and the Community of Creation Randy Woodley offers an answer: learn more about the Native American 'Harmony Way,' a concept that closely parallels biblical shalom. Doing so can bring reconciliation between Euro-Westerners and indigenous peoples, a new connectedness with the Creator and creation, an end to imperial warfare, the ability to live in the moment, justice, restoration -- and a more biblically authentic spirituality. Rooted in redemptive correction, this book calls for true partnership through the co-creation of new theological systems that foster wholeness and peace.

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Csi Publications
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Christelike opvoeding
ISBN : 0802818579

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Educating for Responsible Action by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802818161

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Art in Action by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

Taking vigorous issue with the pervasive Western notion that the arts exist essentially for the purpose of aesthetic contemplation, Nicholas Wolterstorff proposes instead what he sees as an authentically Christian perspective: that art has a legitimate, even necessary, place in everyday life. While granting that galleries, theaters and concert halls serve a valid purpose, Wolterstorff argues that art should also be appreciated in action -- in private homes, in hotel lobbies, in factories and grocery stores, on main street. His conviction that art should be multifunction is basic to the author's views on art in the city (he regards most American cities as dehumanizing wastelands of aesthetic squalor, dominated by the demands of the automobile), and leads him to a helpful discussion of its role in worship and the church. Developing an aesthetic that is basically grounded, yet always sensitive to the human need for beauty, Wolterstorff make a brilliant contribution to understanding how art can serve to broaden and enrich our lives.

Author : Johan Hegeman,Margaret Edgell,Henk Jochemsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610970914

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Practice and Profile by Johan Hegeman,Margaret Edgell,Henk Jochemsen Pdf

Too many students are disappointed. They want to make a difference in their chosen professions. They are inspired by successful visionaries, but they have little idea how to follow in their oversized footsteps. Their colleges and universities promise more professional development than they can possibly deliver, especially in terms of moral development for the professions. Experts coming from a range of perspectives in higher education agree that moral formation for the professions must increasingly take place in higher education. Tragically, the recent evolution of teaching has stripped educators of much of the rationale for moral formation. The recent record of moral lapses by managers testifies to this crisis of moral education. The authors call for a revival of moral formation in higher education for the professions. They supply the needed resources to redesign classic as well as cutting-edge teaching and learning toward practical moral education in the professions. This book is carefully designed to apply traditional Christian principles appropriately to evolving professional practices. The authors' strategies address the problems surrounding calling, vocation, and the growing need for virtue training in the professions. In particular, the authors provide clear direction for how to meet the need for professional profiles that meet the standards of the marketplace. Practice and Profile provides the reader with a tested and proven model of faith formation appropriate to the professions. It also goes into specific, useful detail as to how the model mobilizes learning in classroom and professional settings. It aids institutions of higher learning in their struggle with demands for new learning environments and new moral competencies. Foremost, it gives students a grasp of how to become dedicated professionals who make a difference.

Author : Paul D. Spears,Steven R. Loomis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780830828128

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Education for Human Flourishing by Paul D. Spears,Steven R. Loomis Pdf

Far from offering a thin patina of "niceness" spread over standard educational philosophy, Steven Loomis and Paul Spears set forth a vigorous Christian philosophy of education that seeks to transform the practice of education. Beginning with a robust view of human nature, they build a case for a decidedly Christian view of education that still rightfully takes its place within the marketplace of public education.

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN : 9780300243703

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Religion in the University by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

From one of the world's leading philosophers, this is a powerful defense of religion's role within the modern university What is religion's place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what that home should be like. He documents the remarkable changes have occurred within the academy over the past five decades with regard to how knowledge is understood. During the same period, profound philosophical advancements have also been made in our understanding of religious belief. These shifting ideals, taken together, have created an environment that is more pluralistic than secular. Tapping into larger debates on freedom of expression and intellectual diversity, Wolterstorff believes a scholarly ethic should guard us against becoming, in Weber's words, "specialists without spirit and sensualists without heart."