How to envision theological education in this time between the times ?? The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end--but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal.? ? Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the ......
Catholic education remains one of the most compelling expressions of the Church's mission to form disciples. Despite decades of decline in the number of schools and students, many Catholic schools have been experiencing renewal by returning to the great legacy of the Catholic tradition. Renewing Catholic Schools offers an overview of the reasons ......
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Many arguments have been made for the continued good work of all-girls' schools: they prepare girls well for success in college and career, helping them be better students, better leaders, and more assertive citizens. All-girls' Catholic schools offer something more: a rationale that is rooted in the theological commitments of the Roman Catholic ......
Discover effective literacy methods that align with a Christian anthropological view of the human person, as described by Aquinas and Aristotle and joined to research-based strategies. Through this work you will learn the most important pieces to building the skills needed for literacy acquisition. The aim of this book is to provide parents and ......
The Rise and Fall of the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas
In this reprinting of Truth on Trial, Robert Carlson outlines the sad state of higher education in America, where "learning" is increasingly disconnected from the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty that has always been its most important heritage, replaced by an environment where any view that is not 'politically correct' is persecuted and ......
Discover how the Christian contemplative tradition can enhance teaching and learning The goal of Christian education is distinctive: to help students develop into well-integrated human beings and faithful disciples. Yet Christian schools are beset by many of the same challenges that plague virtually all schools today--a culture of distraction and ......
Volume 1: From Jesus the Teacher to St. John Henry Newman
Catholic education stands in need of renewal, for it too has experienced the consequences of the rupture of faith and reason in the modern period. Secularism affects Catholic schools as well as public ones when faith remains confined solely to a religion class or the celebration of the Mass. Our past provides a model of integration: the unity of ......