Teaching And Christian Practices

Author : David Smith,James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780802866851

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Teaching and Christian Practices by David Smith,James K. A. Smith Pdf

In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies. Whether allowing spiritually formative reading to enhance a literature course, employing table fellowship and shared meals to reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or using Christian hermeneutical practices to interpret data in an economics course, these teacher-authors envision ways of teaching and learning that are rooted in the rich tradition of Christian practices, as together they reconceive classrooms and laboratories as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467450645

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On Christian Teaching by David I. Smith Pdf

Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.

Author : Thomas G. Long,Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664232542

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Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice by Thomas G. Long,Leonora Tubbs Tisdale Pdf

Preachings most able practitioners gather in this book to explore and explain the idea that preaching is a practice that can be taught and learned. Arguing that preaching is a living practice with a long tradition, an identifiable shape, and a broad set of norms and desired outcomes, these noted scholars propose that teachers initiate students into the larger practice of preaching, in ways somewhat like other students are initiated into the practice of medicine or law. The book concludes with designs for a basic preaching course and addresses the question of how preaching courses fit into the larger patterns of seminary curricula.

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467450645

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On Christian Teaching by David I. Smith Pdf

Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268161347

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Faith and Violence by Thomas Merton Pdf

In Faith and Violence, Thomas Merton offers concrete and pungent social criticisms grounded in prophetic faith about such issues as Vietnam, racism, violence, and war.

Author : David I. Smith,Susan M. Felch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467444101

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Teaching and Christian Imagination by David I. Smith,Susan M. Felch Pdf

This book offers an energizing Christian vision for the art of teaching. The authors — experienced teachers themselves — encourage teacher-readers to reanimate their work by imagining it differently. David Smith and Susan Felch, along with Barbara Carvill, Kurt Schaefer, Timothy Steele, and John Witvliet, creatively use three metaphors — journeys and pilgrimages, gardens and wilderness, buildings and walls — to illuminate a fresh vision of teaching and learning. Stretching beyond familiar clichés, they infuse these metaphors with rich biblical echoes and theological resonances that will inform and inspire Christian teachers everywhere.

Author : Lauren F. Winner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Baptism
ISBN : 9780300215823

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The Dangers of Christian Practice by Lauren F. Winner Pdf

Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of "damaged gift." Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.

Author : Craig Dykstra
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227589

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Growing in the Life of Faith by Craig Dykstra Pdf

In this new edition of his popular book, Craig Dykstra explores the contributions of the traditions, education, worship practices, and disciplines of the Reformed Christian community in helping people grow in faith. In doing so, he makes the case that the Christian church, in its own traditions, has a wealth of wisdom about satisfying spiritual hunger and the desire to know God deeply--wisdom that offers coherent, thoughtful guidance in such diverse settings as congregational life, families, youth groups, and higher education.

Author : Jared E. Alcántara
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419760

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The Practices of Christian Preaching by Jared E. Alcántara Pdf

Leading homiletician Jared Alcántara offers a practice-centered, collaborative, technologically innovative, next-generation introductory preaching textbook. The book breaks new ground by adopting a practice-based approach to teaching preaching and by using innovative technological delivery to enhance the educational experience of learners. Alcántara introduces the basics of Christian preaching and emphasizes the skills preachers must cultivate throughout their lives. He shows that preachers can learn effective preaching by paying keen attention to five key competencies: conviction, context, clarity, concreteness, and creativity. Featuring the perspectives of a diverse team of collaborators, The Practices of Christian Preaching is designed to prepare effective communicators for the church's multicultural future. Call-outs in the book direct readers to a companion website for further information or practice. The online resources include audio and video sermons, video responses from the author, and contributions from collaborators, enabling Alcántara to coach students by showing them instead of just telling them. A Spanish language edition will be forthcoming.

Author : Robert W. Pazmino
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579109509

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Principles and Practices of Christian Education by Robert W. Pazmino Pdf

Principles and Practices of Christian Education shows teachers how they can use two important principles that stand behind all evangelical practices to make their education program stand out from all the others in its nurture of students. First, evangelical Christian education recognizes the need for conversion-personal and corporate transformation that reconnects people to their Creator. Second, evangelical Christian education strives for connection-making contact with people as unique individuals who live in a particular society and who need to know more about scripture. In this book Christian education students learn that the work for which they prepare is a partnership with God to transform people. Their central task is worship, but through it and other activities they lead others to faith, commitment, and transformation of communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932972153

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Effective Teaching Practices for 21st Century Christian Educators by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Thomas Hughes,William B. Adrian
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 080284121X

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Models for Christian Higher Education by Richard Thomas Hughes,William B. Adrian Pdf

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This timely look at the state of Christian higher education in America contains descriptive, historical narratives that explore how fourteen Christian colleges and universities are successfully integrating faith and learning on their campuses despite the challenges posed by the increasingly pluralistic nature of modern culture. Written by respected representatives from seven major faith traditions -- Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Mennonite, Evangelical, Wesleyan/Holiness, and Baptist/Restorationist -- these narratives are also preceded by introductory essays that define the worldview and theological heritage of each given tradition and ask what that tradition can contribute to the task of higher education.

Author : Robert W. Pazmiño
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725202276

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Principles and Practices of Christian Education by Robert W. Pazmiño Pdf

Principles and Practices of Christian Education shows teachers how they can use two important principles that stand behind all evangelical practices to make their education program stand out from all the others in its nurture of students. First, evangelical Christian education recognizes the need for conversion-personal and corporate transformation that reconnects people to their Creator. Second, evangelical Christian education strives for connection-making contact with people as unique individuals who live in a particular society and who need to know more about scripture. In this book Christian education students learn that the work for which they prepare is a partnership with God to transform people. Their central task is worship, but through it and other activities they lead others to faith, commitment, and transformation of communities.

Author : David Smith,Barbara Maria Carvill
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802847080

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The Gift of the Stranger by David Smith,Barbara Maria Carvill Pdf

A pioneering look at the implications of Christian faith for foreign language education. It has become clear in recent years that reflection on foreign language education involves more than questioning which methods work best. This new volume carries current discussions of the value-laden nature of foreign language teaching into new territory by exploring its spiritual and moral dimensions. David Smith and Barbara Carvill show how the Christian faith sheds light on the history, aims, content, and methods of foreign language education. They also propose a new approach to the field based on the Christian understanding of hospitality.

Author : Charlene Tan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.