Response to Andrew Wright
THE BIBLE GIVES us important presuppositions for our understanding of reality, human nature and purpose and these presuppositions influence our educational thinking and practice. Andrew Wright claims that a dualism in Lutheran theology supports reconstructioism rather than transformationism. However...
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| Language: | English |
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Paternoster Periodicals
[1998]
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Journal of education & Christian belief
Year: 1998, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-114 |
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| Summary: | THE BIBLE GIVES us important presuppositions for our understanding of reality, human nature and purpose and these presuppositions influence our educational thinking and practice. Andrew Wright claims that a dualism in Lutheran theology supports reconstructioism rather than transformationism. However, dualism comes in many forms and not all of them are unbiblical. The alleged dualism of Lutheran theology is simply an attempt to hold together apparently contradictory aspects which are in fact complementary. Luther's two governments cannot be separated and it is not possible for us to know when God is using his left or his right hand. Luther himself and many Lutherans do not conform to Wright's caricature. Neither a transformationist view of learning nor Lutheran theology will have a universal answer to the question of whether Christian children should be educated in Christian schools or common schools. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of education & Christian belief
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/205699719800200205 |