Spirituality and the relationship between children and adults in Christian education
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Spirituality and the relationship between children and adults in Christian education ECCE conference Paris 23.2.2010 Martin Ubani PhD, MTh University Lecturer in Religious Education Department of Applied Sciences of Education University of Helsinki
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Spirituality and the relationship between children and adults in Christian education
ECCE conferenceParis 23.2.2010 Martin Ubani
PhD, MThUniversity Lecturer in Religious Education
Department of Applied Sciences of EducationUniversity of Helsinki
Vision - Kingdom
Decline in shared religious cultural heritage
Increase in acknowledged interpretations of reality (Pluralism)
Decline in shared inter-generational contact
Decline in Christian institutional religiousness
Christianity and education
Evangelization & catechesis
Kerygma & didache
Preaching & teaching
What is Christian education?
What makes education Christian is the aims?
What makes education Christian is the content?
What makes education Christian is the physical setting?
What is Christian education?
The purpose for Christian education is to (help one to) become “more Christian” (Astley 1994)
Kingdom of relationships – some research
Primary human relationships and the image of God
Family and faith formation & religious literacy
Individuation phase and the return
Interaction: Parents influence children’s religiousness and children the family
The adult, child and Kingdom education
Role of the adult? (e.g. Astley 1994)
-A Parent, Coach, Scientist, Critic, Storyteller, Artist, Visionary, Revolutionary, Therapist, Minister…
Kingdom in Christian education
-Relationship: not the adult and the child but God and human
-Christian spirituality: experiencing of God and the transformation of lives as outcomes (McGrath 1999)
-Kingdom based on Logos
The adult, child and Kingdom education
Role of the adult? (e.g. Astley 1994)
-A Parent, Coach, Scientist, Critic, Storyteller, Artist, Visionary, Revolutionary, Therapist, Minister…
… a Child?
Adults becoming more Christian, more children in Kingdom education
- The adult is a child in the Kingdom…
…who matures
…needs to be transparent
…whose Father is God
…with questions
…of Covenant
Concluding remarks
Christian spirituality involves the experiencing of God and the transformation of lives as outcomes of this experience (McGrath 1999)
Concluding remarks
Christian education involves the experiencing of God and the transformation of lives as outcomes of this experience (Ubani 2010 based on McGrath 1999)
Martin UbaniFT, TM
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