Christian Religious Education Sharing Our Story and Vision

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Pub. Date: 1999-02-11
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Summary

The Classic Guide for Educators of Any Denomination What mission calls us to teach? How do societal issues-social oppression, poverty, politics-affect what we teach, how we teach it, and how people learn? Who are our students? What and when are they ready to learn? Once we understand these foundations, how can we facilitate an educational experience that has the power to shape and transform people and communities in life-giving ways of faith? In this classic text, Thomas Groome asks and answers these central questions, providing a comprehensive integration of the history, theory, and practice of modern religious education for a new generation of educators. His self-reflective approach-shared praxis-will inspire school teachers, students of religious education, pastors, parents, and religious educators in local churches who want to understand themselves, their mission, and their surroundings-to inform, form, and transform their students' lives. "Anyone tugged by the calling at the heart of education or religious life can only cheer for the republication of this classic book."-Robert Kegan, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Whether returning Christian Religious Education or reading it for the first time, readers will discover freshness leaping from the page; you will soon know why this formative book of the past is a beacon for the future-informative, inspiring, and wise!"-Mary Elizabeth Moore, professor of theology and Christian education, Claremont School of Theology

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface, 1999 ix
Preface xiii
About the Author xxi
Part I. The Nature of Christian Religious Education
Prologue
3(2)
Education in Time
5(15)
Three Assumptions and Concerns of Educators over Time
5(7)
The Assumption and Concern for the ``Past''
7(1)
The Assumption and Concern for the ``Present''
8(1)
The Assumption and Concern for the ``Future''
9(1)
The Assumption and Concerns in History
10(2)
Pilgrims in Time
12(3)
In Time
12(2)
Pilgrims
14(1)
The Political Nature of Educating Pilgrims in Time
15(5)
A Coming to Terms
20(15)
Education
20(1)
Religious Education
21(2)
Christian Religious Education
23(3)
Catechesis
26(7)
Two Caveats on ``Coming to Terms''
28(5)
Part II. The Purpose of Christian Religious Education
Prologue
33(2)
Education for the Kingdom of God
35(21)
The Kingdom of God in the Hebrew Scriptures
36(2)
Jesus and the Kingdom of God
38(5)
The Kingdom of God in Contemporary Christian Theology
43(6)
Pastoral Implications of the Kingdom of God
43(6)
A Consensus View of the Kingdom as Ultimate Purpose for Christian Religious Education
49(7)
For Christian Faith
56(26)
Christian Faith in Three Dimensions
57(9)
Faith as Believing
57(4)
Faith as Trusting
61(2)
Faith as Doing
63(3)
Faith Development
66(7)
Focal Themes in Fowler's Thesis
67(2)
Stages of Faith Development
69(4)
Religious Education Toward Christian Faith
73(9)
For Human Freedom
82(27)
Created to Image a Free Creator
83(5)
Pilgrims Toward Freedom Through Jesus Christ
88(9)
Sin and Salvation Revisited
92(2)
Jesus the Liberator
94(3)
Christian Faith and Human Freedom in Religious Education
97(10)
Part III. The Context of Christian Religious Education
Prologue
107(2)
On Becoming Christian Together
109(30)
The Social Process of Human Becoming
109(6)
Externalization
110(1)
Objectification
111(1)
Internalization
112(1)
The Self/Society Dialectic
113(2)
The Social Process of Christian Becoming
115(11)
Christian Socialization and Religious Education
115(6)
A Dialectical Approach to the Socialization Approach
121(5)
Conclusion: Both Socialization and Education
126(9)
Part IV. An Approach to Christian Religious Education
Shared Praxis
Prologue
135(4)
In Search of a ``Way of Knowing'' for Christian Religious Education
139(13)
The Epistemological Question
139(2)
The Biblical Way of Knowing
141(4)
The Hebrew Scriptures
141(1)
The New Testament
142(3)
An Epistemological Shift in Christian Religious Education
145(4)
Toward a Praxis Epistemology for Christian Religious Education
149(3)
Some Philosophical Roots for a Praxis Way of Knowing
152(32)
Praxis in Aristotle
153(4)
Christian Education and Greek Intellectualism: A Conflict
157(5)
Hegel and the Praxis of Geist
162(3)
Marx's Praxis Way of Knowing
165(4)
Habermas' Division of the Three Ways of Knowing
169(6)
Paulo Freire and His Praxis of Education
175(9)
Shared Christian Praxis
184(23)
The Components of a Shared Praxis Approach
184(13)
Present Action
184(1)
Critical Reflection
185(3)
Dialogue
188(3)
The Story
191(2)
The Vision
193(2)
Present Dialectical Hermeneutics
195(2)
Guidelines for Decision Making in a Group Using Shared Praxis
197(10)
Consequences
198(1)
Continuity
198(1)
Community/Church
199(8)
Shared Praxis in Praxis
207(32)
The Five Movements
207(16)
Naming Present Action
208(3)
The Participants' Stories and Visions
211(3)
The Christian Community Story and Vision
214(3)
Dialectical Hermeneutic Between the Story and Participants' Stories
217(3)
Dialectical Hermeneutic Between the Vision and Participants' Visions
220(3)
Some General Reflections on Using Shared Praxis
223(12)
Variations and Sequence of Movements
223(2)
Timing and Shared Praxis
225(1)
The Environment of Shared Praxis
225(2)
Relationship of Theology to Christian Religious Education
227(3)
Liturgy and a Shared Praxis Approach
230(5)
Part V. Readiness for Christian Religious Education
Shared Praxis
Prologue
235(4)
Shared Praxis from a Piagetian Perspective
239(24)
The Activity of Knowing and Its Development
240(8)
The Stages of Cognitive Development
243(5)
Piaget and Education
248(13)
Piaget's Theory and a Shared Praxis Approach
250(11)
Part VI. The Copartners in Christian Religious Education
Prologue
261(2)
Our Students, Our Selves
263(14)
Our Students: Subjects Who Make History
263(2)
Our Selves: The Ministry of the Christian Religious Educator
265(12)
To Make Present the Story
269(1)
To Propose the Vision
270(3)
To Choose Life
273(4)
Postscript: Until Break of Day 277(2)
Bibliography 279(12)
Index 291

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