Christian higher education in fractured societies: Societal challenges and agapeic wisdom

In this opening lecture for the 2022 Budapest Conference on “Building Community in Fractured Societies: Challenges for Christians in Higher Education,” an overview is given of recent societal developments, (geo-) political, economic, ecological, sociological, psychological, and spiritual. A basic fr...

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Main Author: Buijs, Govert Joan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing 2023
In: International journal of Christianity & education
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 241-261
Further subjects:B love / agape
B Christian Education
B societal challenges
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Summary:In this opening lecture for the 2022 Budapest Conference on “Building Community in Fractured Societies: Challenges for Christians in Higher Education,” an overview is given of recent societal developments, (geo-) political, economic, ecological, sociological, psychological, and spiritual. A basic framework is presented on how to analyze today's, late-modern world. It is a world in which instrumental rationality is highly dominant. Next to this, powerful societal complexes exert deep influence on the lives of humans: political, economic, media, and medical. Over against this is posed the “real human world” of meaning and responsibility, as the key focus of Christian higher education.
ISSN:2056-998X
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of Christianity & education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/20569971231202499