Teaching as a Gift of Peace
“Christian educators often are better at retelling the memories of the past than at coming up with evidence that the Lord is still living within us today. To get the attention of the world, we have to catch it with its shoes off, as it were, in a teachable moment. … I suggest that the Christian mess...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1991
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Theology today
Year: 1991, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 377-387 |
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| Summary: | “Christian educators often are better at retelling the memories of the past than at coming up with evidence that the Lord is still living within us today. To get the attention of the world, we have to catch it with its shoes off, as it were, in a teachable moment. … I suggest that the Christian message is the immune system of humanity—not of the “old” humanity of Adam and Eve, but of the new humanity that God is creating in Jesus Christ. This immune system is a network of interlocking components which guard the health of this fragile creature. These components are analogous to white blood cells, antibodies, and the other physical mechanisms of health maintenance present within the biological organism. However, in the case of the Christian message system, the components are not physical things, but rather units of meaning. We enumerate them as doctrines or beliefs, although they are also practices. Christian education is what is supposed to be keeping these components in order.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057369104700403 |