A Summary Grammar for Christian Prepolitical Education
This article looks at how Christians should be educated for prepolitical involvement in civil society. It does this by proposing a ‘summary grammar’ based on a reading of three theologians who have influenced Christian political thought (Augustine of Hippo, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Dietrich Bonhoeffer)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Paternoster Periodicals
[2003]
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Journal of education & Christian belief
Year: 2003, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-155 |
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| Summary: | This article looks at how Christians should be educated for prepolitical involvement in civil society. It does this by proposing a ‘summary grammar’ based on a reading of three theologians who have influenced Christian political thought (Augustine of Hippo, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Dietrich Bonhoeffer). The summary grammar is expressed in the form of three inter-related tensions on which all prepolitical education must rest if it is to be properly Christian. The first tension concerns the nature of God's kingdom; the second relates to the idea that that the church should be in the world but not of it; and the third is based on how the church relates to that world. I then look at how this prepolitical education could have helped the recent debate over war with Iraq. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of education & Christian belief
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/205699710300700206 |