Identity Formation through Classroom Conversations and Collaboration with the Spirit
Miroslav Volf argues that God intends human beings to be co-workers with God in completing creation. Teachers in the classroom can be co-workers with God through the formation of students. Formation occurs, in part, through mutual relationships such as those between the person of the teacher and the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Journal of Christian education
Year: 2007, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 45-54 |
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Holy Spirit
B Creation B Word of God B co-workers B Identity B Conversations B Personhood |
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| Summary: | Miroslav Volf argues that God intends human beings to be co-workers with God in completing creation. Teachers in the classroom can be co-workers with God through the formation of students. Formation occurs, in part, through mutual relationships such as those between the person of the teacher and the person of the pupil.Conversations are important to formation and the Holy Spirit makes a major contribution to revelatory conversations. Martin Buber, Parker Palmer, Rowan Williams, and Simone Weil show how conversations contribute to formation and to the creation of a mutual presence and grace between conversational partners so that there is an exchange of words and feelings that resonates with the creative word of God working in the depths of the identity of each person. This process is described as a spiritual theology of teaching. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Christian education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002196570705000206 |