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Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision
Thomas H. Groome
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Description for Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision
Paperback. What mission calls us to teach? How do societal issues affect what we teach, how we teach it, and how people learn? In this work, Thomas Greene asks and answers such central questions, providing an integration of the history, theory and practice of modern religious education for a new generation. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: HRCV2; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
The Classic Guide for Educators of Any Denomination
What mission calls us to teach? How do societal issues-socialoppression, poverty, politics-affect what we teach, how we teachit, and how people learn? Who are our students? What and when arethey ready to learn? Once we understand these foundations, how canwe facilitate an educational experience that has the power to shapeand transform people and communities in life-giving ways offaith?
In this classic text, Thomas Groome asks and answers these centralquestions, providing a comprehensive integration of the history,theory, and practice of modern religious education for a newgeneration of educators. His self-reflective approach-sharedpraxis-will inspire school teachers, students of religiouseducation, pastors, parents, and religious educators in localchurches who want to understand themselves, their mission, andtheir surroundings-to inform, form, and transform their students'lives.
"Anyone tugged by the calling at the heart of education orreligious life can only cheer for the republication of this classicbook."-Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Whether returning Christian Religious Education or reading it forthe first time, readers will discover freshness leaping from thepage; you will soon know why this formative book of the past is abeacon for the future-informative, inspiring, and wise!"-MaryElizabeth Moore, professor of theology and Christian education,Claremont School of Theology
What mission calls us to teach? How do societal issues-socialoppression, poverty, politics-affect what we teach, how we teachit, and how people learn? Who are our students? What and when arethey ready to learn? Once we understand these foundations, how canwe facilitate an educational experience that has the power to shapeand transform people and communities in life-giving ways offaith?
In this classic text, Thomas Groome asks and answers these centralquestions, providing a comprehensive integration of the history,theory, and practice of modern religious education for a newgeneration of educators. His self-reflective approach-sharedpraxis-will inspire school teachers, students of religiouseducation, pastors, parents, and religious educators in localchurches who want to understand themselves, their mission, andtheir surroundings-to inform, form, and transform their students'lives.
"Anyone tugged by the calling at the heart of education orreligious life can only cheer for the republication of this classicbook."-Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Whether returning Christian Religious Education or reading it forthe first time, readers will discover freshness leaping from thepage; you will soon know why this formative book of the past is abeacon for the future-informative, inspiring, and wise!"-MaryElizabeth Moore, professor of theology and Christian education,Claremont School of Theology
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787947859
SKU
V9780787947859
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About Thomas H. Groome
THOMAS H. GROOME is professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, where he is also the senior faculty at the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.
Reviews for Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision
"Anyone tugged by the calling at the heart of education orreligious life can only cheer for the republication of this classicbook."
Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Christian Religious Education is one of the most important books-if not the most important-on Christian education published duringthe last fifty years."
Don Browning, University of Chicago,coauthor, From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and theAmerican Family Debate "Whether returning Christian Religious Education or reading it forthe first time, readers will discover freshness leaping from thepage; you will soon know why this formative book of the past is abeacon for the future-informative, inspiring, and wise!"
MaryElizabeth Moore, professor of theology and Christian education,Claremont School of Theology "Tom Groome combines the great masters of the past with the mostcreative innovators of the present to provide us with a modern dayclassic."
Virgilio P. Elizondo, founder, Mexican AmericanCultural Center
Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Christian Religious Education is one of the most important books-if not the most important-on Christian education published duringthe last fifty years."
Don Browning, University of Chicago,coauthor, From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and theAmerican Family Debate "Whether returning Christian Religious Education or reading it forthe first time, readers will discover freshness leaping from thepage; you will soon know why this formative book of the past is abeacon for the future-informative, inspiring, and wise!"
MaryElizabeth Moore, professor of theology and Christian education,Claremont School of Theology "Tom Groome combines the great masters of the past with the mostcreative innovators of the present to provide us with a modern dayclassic."
Virgilio P. Elizondo, founder, Mexican AmericanCultural Center