The way of subtraction and subversion: Four metrics for teacher spiritual formation
Spiritual formation of teachers has been evolving as an exponentially more important area over at least the last ten to twenty years. Cultivation of spiritual formation (henceforth, SF) is vital not only to the lives and vocation of teachers themselves, but also to their search for meaning, their co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2022, Volume: 99, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-75 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
Gratitude
B Christianity and other religions B Spirituality; Christianity B Teaching; Religious aspects; Christianity |
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| Summary: | Spiritual formation of teachers has been evolving as an exponentially more important area over at least the last ten to twenty years. Cultivation of spiritual formation (henceforth, SF) is vital not only to the lives and vocation of teachers themselves, but also to their search for meaning, their commitment to spiritual disciplines and virtues, and the quiet witness they offer to students in this fluctuating COVID-19 era. This article presents four vital metrics on spiritual formation premised on the argument that Jesus, and Christianity after him, values a tradition of 'subtraction' (Jesus' spirituality of hiddenness, humility, and similar virtues) and 'subversion' (Jesus' active challenge of the religious, political and economic power elites of his time). Here 'metric' is employed in two senses: as a principle for measuring the integrity of one's spiritual formation, and in the literary sense of metre, implying what is capable of imbuing one's SF with poetry and beauty. These metrics have emerged from my recent writing and in-servicing on teacher and school leadership spirituality, and have also arisen as constant leitmotifs in my three-part series entitled Living Spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3316/informit.348207299309559 |