Educating in Faith : Maps and Visions

by Boys, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9780788099069
• ISBN10: 078809906X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Mary Boys offers a new way of thinking about what it means to educate religiously. Utilizing the method of "map-making" to broaden the context of American religious education, Boys defines a process that incorporates each instructor's own experiences, perspectives, and analytical insights to develop more compelling teaching methods. By placing both Protestant and Catholic religious education in both a historical and conceptual framework, Boys establishes a theological and educational basis for providing answers to central questions: What does it mean to educate in faith? What is the teacher's role? How much emphasis should be given to psychology, anthropology, and sociology? Toward what view of society is a theory of religious education oriented? Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mary C. Boys, Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, taught theology and religious education at Boston College for seventeen years. She is the author of four books and editor of two others. In addition to her six books she has published some sixty articles in books and journals such as Concilium, Horizons, Religious Education, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Cross Currents, SIDIC, and the Journal of Ecumenical Studies

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction	p. viii
Mapmaking
Creating a Guidebook for Exploring: Foundational Questions and Classic Expressions	p. 3
Surveying the Territory: Evangelism	p. 13
Surveying the Territory: Religious Education	p. 39
Surveying the Territory: Christian Education	p. 66
Surveying the Territory: Catholic Education-Catechetics	p. 80
Extending the Survey: Contemporary Modifications of the Classic Expressions	p. 111
Visions
Movements on the Horizon: Developments and Directions	p. 153
Marking Out the Boundaries: A Way of Thinking About Religious Education	p. 192
Index	p. 223
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