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Research paper thumbnail of Is Talk of ‘Christian Education’ Meaningful?

Christian Faith, Formation and Education, 2017

Those who find the phrase ‘Christian education’ meaningful may nevertheless mean quite different ... more Those who find the phrase ‘Christian education’ meaningful may nevertheless mean quite different things when they use it. Others have argued that what is good or bad in education has logically nothing to do with Christian faith so that it is strictly meaningless to talk of Christian education. Others claim that Christian or any other faith-based education is necessarily indoctrinatory and therefore fundamentally anti-educational. In contrast with these reductions of meaning or claims of meaninglessness or necessary indoctrination, I propose a holistic form of Christian education that has as its main aim the promotion of shalom and is relational in pedagogical approach and appropriate for plural contexts and not only those of Christian schools or churches.

Research paper thumbnail of The Christian Academic in Higher Education: The Consecration of Learning

International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Fundamentalism and Warranted Belief: Response to Harriet A. Harris

Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 2000

I MAKE A few brief comments in response to what Harriet Harris says so helpfully. Taking belief i... more I MAKE A few brief comments in response to what Harriet Harris says so helpfully. Taking belief in God as basic is more like taking belief in other minds as basic than doing so with beliefs in everyday objects such as trees. A belief may be held as basic and, at the same time, open to criticism. Foundations may be discovered retrospectively as we walk on them rather than established first as something from which we start to build.

Research paper thumbnail of Education for shalom: dimensions of a relational pedagogy

Education for shalom: dimensions of a relational pedagogy

Research paper thumbnail of Bible-Shaped Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of A Tribute to Harro Van Brummelen

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Faith and Understanding, Faith beyond ReasonHelmPaulFaith and UnderstandingEdinburgh University Press1997 pb 212pp £14.95ISBN 0-7486-0922-9EvansC. StephenFaith Beyond ReasonEdinburgh University Press1998 pb 168pp £14.95ISBN 0-7486-0794-3

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Making Connections to the Environment Using Music

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: In the Fields of the Lord: A Seerveld ReaderBartholomewCraig (ed) In the Fields of the Lord: A Seerveld ReaderPiquant/Toronto Tuppence Press2000 pb 411pp £20.00ISBN 0-9535757-8-0/0-919071-06-6

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Trevor Cooling (Deputy Editor, 2011–2020): An appreciation

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Christian Higher Education: Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Faith-Based Education That Constructs: A Creative Dialogue between Constructivism and Faith-Based Education

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Being Christian in Education: reflecting on Christian professional practice in a secular world

British Journal of Religious Education

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Technology, Learning and the ‘Ephesian Moment’

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: God's Involvement in Education

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Celebrating ChildrenMilesGlenn & WrightJosephine-Joy (eds.) Celebrating ChildrenCarlisle UK/Waynesboro GA: Paternoster Press2003 pb 440pp £25.00/$34.99ISBN 1-84227-060-5

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Knowing as a Kind of Loving

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Images of Christian Reflection

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Pentecostals in BritainKayWilliam K.Pentecostals in BritainPaternoster2000 pb 372pp £19.99ISBN 1-84277-011-7

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Knowing with the Heart Religious Experience & Belief in GodClouserRoyKnowing with the Heart Religious Experience & Belief in GodIVP (Downers Grove, ILL)1999 pb 204pp £12.99ISBN 0-8308-1507-4

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Is Talk of ‘Christian Education’ Meaningful?

Christian Faith, Formation and Education, 2017

Those who find the phrase ‘Christian education’ meaningful may nevertheless mean quite different ... more Those who find the phrase ‘Christian education’ meaningful may nevertheless mean quite different things when they use it. Others have argued that what is good or bad in education has logically nothing to do with Christian faith so that it is strictly meaningless to talk of Christian education. Others claim that Christian or any other faith-based education is necessarily indoctrinatory and therefore fundamentally anti-educational. In contrast with these reductions of meaning or claims of meaninglessness or necessary indoctrination, I propose a holistic form of Christian education that has as its main aim the promotion of shalom and is relational in pedagogical approach and appropriate for plural contexts and not only those of Christian schools or churches.

Research paper thumbnail of The Christian Academic in Higher Education: The Consecration of Learning

International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Fundamentalism and Warranted Belief: Response to Harriet A. Harris

Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 2000

I MAKE A few brief comments in response to what Harriet Harris says so helpfully. Taking belief i... more I MAKE A few brief comments in response to what Harriet Harris says so helpfully. Taking belief in God as basic is more like taking belief in other minds as basic than doing so with beliefs in everyday objects such as trees. A belief may be held as basic and, at the same time, open to criticism. Foundations may be discovered retrospectively as we walk on them rather than established first as something from which we start to build.

Research paper thumbnail of Education for shalom: dimensions of a relational pedagogy

Education for shalom: dimensions of a relational pedagogy

Research paper thumbnail of Bible-Shaped Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of A Tribute to Harro Van Brummelen

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Faith and Understanding, Faith beyond ReasonHelmPaulFaith and UnderstandingEdinburgh University Press1997 pb 212pp £14.95ISBN 0-7486-0922-9EvansC. StephenFaith Beyond ReasonEdinburgh University Press1998 pb 168pp £14.95ISBN 0-7486-0794-3

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Making Connections to the Environment Using Music

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: In the Fields of the Lord: A Seerveld ReaderBartholomewCraig (ed) In the Fields of the Lord: A Seerveld ReaderPiquant/Toronto Tuppence Press2000 pb 411pp £20.00ISBN 0-9535757-8-0/0-919071-06-6

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Trevor Cooling (Deputy Editor, 2011–2020): An appreciation

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Christian Higher Education: Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Faith-Based Education That Constructs: A Creative Dialogue between Constructivism and Faith-Based Education

International Journal of Christianity & Education

Research paper thumbnail of Being Christian in Education: reflecting on Christian professional practice in a secular world

British Journal of Religious Education

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Technology, Learning and the ‘Ephesian Moment’

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: God's Involvement in Education

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Celebrating ChildrenMilesGlenn & WrightJosephine-Joy (eds.) Celebrating ChildrenCarlisle UK/Waynesboro GA: Paternoster Press2003 pb 440pp £25.00/$34.99ISBN 1-84227-060-5

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Knowing as a Kind of Loving

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial: Images of Christian Reflection

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Pentecostals in BritainKayWilliam K.Pentecostals in BritainPaternoster2000 pb 372pp £19.99ISBN 1-84277-011-7

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Knowing with the Heart Religious Experience & Belief in GodClouserRoyKnowing with the Heart Religious Experience & Belief in GodIVP (Downers Grove, ILL)1999 pb 204pp £12.99ISBN 0-8308-1507-4

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

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