Christian Education and Spiritual Formation: Recent History and Future Prospects

Abstract

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Christian education and spiritual formation existed in an uneasy tension, running on parallel tracks but also developing mutual points of intersection. This article traces the growing connections between these movements in the last two decades of the twentieth century, the changing emphases in this relationship since 2000, and the need for further cross-fertilization between the two fields as ministries face the challenges of the twenty-first century.