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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2023
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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. |
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ISSN: | 2056-998X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Christianity & education
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20569971231202499 |