Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions

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Written by Mary Boys. Originally published by Sheed&Ward, 1993; reprinted by Academic Renewal Press.

 

Ideas

Here are the primary ideas I hope you'll focus on: Do you understand the chart she's put together for each classic expression? Do you agree with her questions there, or are there other questions you think are more pertinent? Can you identify some of the main themes in each classic expression, and explain how they are linked to specific historical contexts? Finally, pay attention to the way in which there seems to be a "pendulum swing" of sorts happening, where each successive expression is in some ways a rejection of certain emphases of its predecessor. What could and should contemporary religious educators learn from this?


Feelings

How, if at all, did memories of your own religious education experiences emerge for you as you read through this book? What feelings come attached to those memories, and how do they shape your current commitment to and awareness of religious education?


Action

How would you answer this chart in your own framework? What do you know from your own history, and how will that reshape what you do in the future?




 

16 April 2002