Abstract
Prayer is a primary spiritual discipline for Christians. Nonetheless, few contemporary scholarly discussions have ventured into exploring the role of prayer in college teaching. This paper extends the conversation by reviving three themes in writings about prayer and academics and making application of those themes to teaching and learning today.
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A word should be said about why so many Catholic writers will be encountered on the topic of prayer in teaching and why Protestants are relatively silent on the subject
A sampling of sources across two millennia and a variety of educational and religious traditions suggests that prayer in teaching has fulfilled three interlocking functions: intellectual enlightenment, spiritual discipline, and religious instruction and example
Summary
Monty, "Prayerful Teaching In Higher Education: A Survey Of Themes" (2004). Management Sciences. 9. https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/mgt_sciences/9. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Business Administration at Digital Commons @ ACU. Conversation about prayer in academic teaching is largely silent today, it was not so among patristic and medieval educators. A sampling of sources across two millennia and a variety of educational and religious traditions suggests that prayer in teaching has fulfilled three interlocking functions: intellectual enlightenment, spiritual discipline, and religious instruction and example. The subtlety of distinctions among the three functions of prayerful teaching may indicate they are closely related and often inseparable If it doesn’t oversimplify, one might say that intellectual enlightenment extends content, spiritual discipline transforms method and purpose, and religious instruction and moral example offers testimony and catechistic teaching beyond the discipline being studied. We’ll explore each function in turn, beginning with the most ancient
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