Buch, Englisch
A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Christian Education
Buch, Englisch
Reihe: Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
ISBN: 978-1-138-72491-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This title was first published in 2001. How can Truth be learned? Christian theology has too often sought to answer this question with reference to the teaching of Socrates, and the development of ideas from Augustine to the Enlightenment has consistently affirmed a basic affiliation between knowledge of God and Self which reaches its logical end point in the conviction that the epistemologist is divine. This confusion of Christian and Socratic ideas fails to account for the distinctive shape of Christian Truth as outlined by Kierkegaard in his Philosophical Fragments. Divine Knowledge explores the ramifications of Kierkegaard's 'negative apologetic' by illuminating a number of pedagogical issues in the field of Christian education - from indoctrination to the problem of Truth and publicness. The author contends that the future of Christian education rests firmly upon our ability to secure a vision of the pedagogical task that coheres with the epistemological co-ordinates of faith, consciousness of sin, the moment and the god in time.
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Contents: Part I: A Socratic Puzzle: Socrates and Christianity: In search of divine knowledge; Synthesis and reformation: perspectives on divine knowledge; Knowledge of God and self: divine knowledge and the quest for certainty; History and the education of humanity: the vanishing significance of divine knowledge; Part II: A Philosophical Thought-Project: How can truth be learned? An alternative approach to the problem of divine knowledge; God the teacher: recovering the distinctive shape of divine knowledge; Part III: From Theory to Practice: Towards a pedagogy of transformation: divine knowledge and the logic of contemporary Christian education; Christian education as truthful gesture: the promise of divine knowledge in an age of uncertainty and diversity; Bibliography; Index.
