Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231180787b
Jason P. Mauk
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231180787e
Siân Draycott
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231191727
John David Trentham
Readers: I am very pleased to establish this new category of literature and learning engagement for the Christian Education Journal. In line with the Journal’s purpose and scope, and in concert with the collaborative spirit of the Society of Professors in Christian Education (SPCE) community, the aim for this initiative is to publish curricular resources designed to guide students into beneficially and productively learning from significant literary texts in our field. With this in mind, I thought it most apt for the first entry in this series to be the African bishop’s perennial masterwork, De Doctrina Christiana (DDC). I believe it is incumbent, particularly upon us who have the great privilege and burden of being vocational teachers in and for the Church and churches, to leverage the lived experiences with which God has providentially equipped us. Such is the genesis of this learning guide. When I was a student, having no significant familiarity with Saint Augustine aside from the coastal town in Florida, and having no significant exposure or experience with interpreting classical era original source material aside from the New Testament and The Stranger album, I was assigned to read DDC and produce, in 3 to 4 pages double-spaced, a summary and critique. Given my pre-academician grasp of the obvious (keener then than now), I sensed almost immediately that to assign or undertake such a task was presumptuous at best and dishonest at worst, and intellectually foolish in any conceivable case. So I went rogue and produced for the professor about 25 single-spaced pages of direct quotations with my attempted interpretative paraphrasing. The fact that this approach comported with an Augustinian hermeneutical protocol was lost on me at the time. What was not lost on me then, and what I am now deeply grateful for having been confronted with, was the immense depth and force of this slim volume. Perhaps more profoundly and influentially than any other single contribution, DDC articulates and demonstrates the weaving together of a three-corded doctrinal strand that must never be broken in the ministry of Christian teaching: the devotion to metaphysical truth, the cultivation of educational discernment, and the appropriation of these in service to learning and discipleship. When I became a professor, I created the learning guide presented here for my students. To the extent you may find it beneficial, please feel free to utilize it in part or whole. For some background and context, here are a few notes and clarifications for the learning guide, which begins in the next section with the editor’s introduction. Tolle Lege: Learning Guides for Reading Well
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231178842
A. Sosler
This study investigates the educational philosophy of John Calvin. Whereas many consider Calvin to be a rationalist, the article explores Calvin's educational philosophy in his Institutes as primarily concerned with teaching toward the will, thus, extending Calvin's theology to his pedagogy. To affect the will, Calvin employs unique pedagogical strategies and by recovering these ancient practices, modern educators can more deeply and holistically impact student formation in the classroom.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231170640
David R. Dunaetz, Chelsea Heath, Raisa Recto, Danny Soria, Stephanie J. Wilden
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world and is used by many churches. This study seeks to discover the type of Facebook posts that most contribute to the perceived spiritual formation of church attenders as defined by typical church mission statements. A broad range of church attenders who use Facebook (N = 161) completed an online survey focusing on their church's Facebook page. They indicated the degree to which they believe various types of their church's Facebook posts contributed to their spiritual formation, specifically, their relationship with God, their relationship with fellow believers, their personal spiritual growth, and their involvement in ministry or service. They also indicated what type of posts they would like to see more frequently from their church. An exploratory analysis found that posts that had greater cognitive content (specifically, live broadcasts, video recordings, announcements, and devotionals) were perceived to contribute more to church attenders’ spiritual formation than did posts with less cognitive content (humorous memes, photos, inspirational quotations, and external links). Confirming these results, participants also expressed a preference for their church to make more posts with high cognitive content than posts with low cognitive content. These results lead to several applications of how churches can better use Facebook to contribute to their mission.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231183982
John David Trentham
Greetings colleagues and friends! On behalf of the Society of Professors in Christian Education and the members of our editorial team, I am very pleased to present this first issue in the 20th volume of the Christian Education Journal, now in its 43rd year of publication. As always, we are deeply grateful for those who have contributed their excellent scholarship to this collection, as well as all of our readers and supporting institutions both in the US and throughout the world! I concluded my previous editorial with “A Prayer for a Foolish Intellect.” That is where I will begin this time, followed by some further reflections on the implications of intellect and intelligence for Christian discipleship and educational ministry.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231180787c
Ruhama Worku
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231180787g
J. Chia
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231177722
David C. Wang, Angela H. Reed, Stephen P. Greggo, L. Bowersox, Amy Drennan, Brad D. Strawn, P. E. King, Steven L. Porter, Peter C. Hill
In recent decades, theological schools have demonstrated increased interest in educational models that not only transmit knowledge and skill to students, but also prepare them to have the character and virtue dispositions needed to successfully navigate the moral challenges that await them in future ministry settings. This shift is reflected in the most recent 2020 accreditation standards of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which highlight the importance of “personal and spiritual formation” as a key facet to seminary programs. Research conducted by the ATS (2018) into how seminaries understood the terms “personal and spiritual formation” revealed that over 40% of seminaries do not have a formal or working institutional definition of personal and spiritual formation. While this finding may be understandable given the complexities of terms and definitions in light of diverse Christian spiritual traditions, it also highlights an area of crucial need given the centrality of spiritual formation to the mission of theological education. Accordingly, the aim of this present paper is to support work in this area and to stimulate a larger discussion into the topic of spiritual formation within the seminary context by articulating and putting forth four different institutional perspectives on the topic (from Fuller Theological Seminary, George Truett Theological Seminary, Talbot School of Theology, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School).
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/07398913231180787d
Kevin A Mirchandani
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