Decolonizing Interreligious Education explores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. This book lifts up the voices of those speaking from embodied experience of suffering multiple oppressions.
Religious and Democratic Covenants and Controversies
This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.
Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects upon America's Public Learning Institutions
From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes and analyzes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religious self-worship.
Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects upon America's Public Learning Institutions
From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes and analyzes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religious self-worship.
Lutheran Higher Education for Planetary Citizenship
Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation became a major turning point in Western history. Born in a university setting, the dialectical interaction of the life of the mind and the life of faith has been a hallmark of Lutheran higher education from the beginning. As Concordia College observes the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, it is ......
What is the vocation of Lutheran higher education--especially now that it is not only or primarily education for and by Lutherans? Over the past several decades, this question has lead to a new concerted effort to retrieve and redefine what it means to be a college of the church.
The 2010 Hein-Fry lecture topic was Hearing the Word: Teaching the Bible in the Parish (and Beyond). This theme was chosen in order to engage the crucial conversation concerning various approaches to Scripture and what resources and challenges those approaches bring to diverse North American contexts. The hope for these lectures is that they raise ......
John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no shred of fiction here. The author stood at the center of the conflict. His observations of the events (both broadly public and closeted in private) that altered the facepolitic of Lutheranism in ......
"Although the field of biblical studies is bursting with new methods and fresh interpretations, there has been surprisingly little discussion of what these changes mean for the actual task of teaching the Bible. Happily, this volume takes significant first steps in addressing the shifts in classroom pedagogy that the new day in biblical studies ......
