Church Education Research Articles

The Responsibilities of the Church in Education of Politics in Indonesia

The Responsibilities of the Church in Education of Politics in Indonesia

Реформа духовного образования 1808 г. и закрепощение православных приходов в Российской империи

Реформа духовного образования 1808 г. и закрепощение православных приходов в Российской империи

Why does the church need religious studies?

The article, addressed to those involved with church education and science, as well as participants of the religious studies scientific community, offers a set of arguments in favor of the development of academic religious studies as an educational and research practice in higher educational institutions of the Church. The author describes his vision of the problematic situation in the field of scientific disciplines that study religion and indicates the traditional nature of the Church’s appeal to secular humanitarian knowledge. From the point of view of the categories of the ‘existing — ought’ and ‘general — individual,’ the mutual relationship of theology and religious studies as related disciplines is clarified. The author identifies a set of subject areas, specific goals and tasks, of research in the field of religious studies, which are significant for the Church and their potential customers-consumers in the Church. The forms of its interdisciplinary interaction with theological knowledge are discussed. According to the author, religious studies, on the one hand, have their own value, and, on the other hand, they can result in concrete benefits in the analysis of problematic situations that need effective resolution. In this perspective, the subject matter of religious studies is structured in the form of a system of concentric circles: Holiness, manifested in people and artefacts, Church hierarchy (bishops, priests, monks), Church laity, Orthodox by self-determination, traditional religions, non-conventional religiosity, history and the current state of religion in general. In conclusion, the main functions of religious studies knowledge within the framework of Church life are highlighted: research, education, expert consulting, missionary and apologetic. The general characteristic features of this knowledge is proposed. The question is raised about the relationship between the academic and ecclesiastical aspects in the process of obtaining it in the perspective of its validity. The author criticizes the popular idea of “Orthodox religious studies”, discusses various forms of interaction between Church and secular scholars, opportunities for non-authoritarian forms of interaction between the Church hierarchy and the hierarchy within the Church’s scientific community, and justifies the need to increase the number of research and educational religious institutions (departments, research centers) in the Church.

The Latter-day Saints and Race Issues in South Africa

Research Article| January 01 2020 The Latter-day Saints and Race Issues in South Africa Khumbulani D. Mdletshe Khumbulani D. Mdletshe Khumbulani D. Mdletshe received his PhD at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and a master’s degree from Brigham Young University. For over two decades he oversaw the Church Education System in thirty countries in Africa. He currently works as Africa Church History Advisor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mormon Studies Review (2020) 7: 43–51. https://doi.org/10.5406/mormstudrevi.7.2020.0043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Khumbulani D. Mdletshe; The Latter-day Saints and Race Issues in South Africa. Mormon Studies Review 1 January 2020; 7 43–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/mormstudrevi.7.2020.0043 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressMormon Studies Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

교회학교에서 프로젝트기반학습(PBL)을 활용한 성경교수 실행모형 연구

본 연구의 목적은 교회교육에서 활용 가능한 프로젝트기반학습 모형을 제시하는 것이다. 프로젝트기반학습은 일반 교육의 영역에서 다양한 방식으로 실행되고 있으며 기독교대안학교 진영에서도 활발하게 활용되는 교육의 방법이다. 그러나 안타깝게도 교회교육의 영역에서는 프로젝트기반학습이 거의 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정에 있다. 프로젝트기반학습은 학습자가 팀원들과 협력하여 학습자 주도적으로 주어진 문제를 해결해 가는 교육의 방법이다. 프로젝트기반학습에서는 자기주도성, 창의성, 협동능력, 의사소통 역량 등 다양한 역량을 발휘하도록 하며 이를 통해 학습자가 주어진 문제를 실제 해결할 수 있도록 돕는다. 성경은 프로젝트기반학습에 대하여 명시적으로 언급하고 있지 않으나 성경의 전체 내용과 흐름을 살펴보면 성경이 거대한 하나님의 구원의 프로젝트로 가득 차 있음을 알 수 있다. 압제 받던 이스라엘 백성들을 애굽 땅에서 어떻게 출애굽 시킬 것인지, 약속의 땅 가나안을 어떻게 정복할 것인지, 무너진 예루살렘 성벽을 어떻게 재건할 것인지 등 다양한 프로젝트들이 등장한다. 성경에 나타난 프로젝트기반학습은 총 4단계로 이루어진다. 1단계는 프로젝트를 계획하는데 성경본문 분석, 과제기간 선정, 교육목표 설정, 소그룹 구성, 업무 분장 등이 이루어진다. 2단계에서는 프로젝트 자료수집 단계인데 관련자료 수집, 강의 및 세미나 수강, 현장방문 및 관련자 인터뷰 등이 이루어진다. 3단계는 프로젝트 수행으로 프로젝트를 기획하고 전략을 세우며 프로젝트를 진행하게 된다. 4단계는 프로젝트 발표 및 평가의 단계로 결과물을 제작하고 발표하며 평가하고 피드백을 받는 단계이다. 이러한 프로젝트 기반 교육은 학습자에게 이론과 실천이 조화되도록 도움을 주며 자신의 삶의 주변에서 벌어지는 실제 문제를 해결할 수 있는 역량을 제공해 준다. 그러나 프로젝트기반학습이 이루어지기 위해서는 프로젝트 학습이 가능한 성경공부 교재를 개발해야 하고 성경교육 시간 및 장소에 대한 확보가 필요하다. 무엇보다도 프로젝트기반학습을 실천할 수 있는 교사교육이 필수적이며 교육지도자의 교육철학을 제대로 형성시켜주는 작업이 필요하다. 우리는 21세기 4차 산업혁명 시대를 살아가고 있다. 더 이상 암기중심의 문제풀이식 교회교육이 아닌 이론과 실천을 겸비한 문제해결식 교회교육을 실천해야 한다. 이를 위해 프로젝트기반학습에 대한 이해와 성경교수모형개발이 이루어져야 하고 걸림돌을 제거하여 역동적인 신앙교육이 이루어지도록 해야 할 것이다.

Exploring Autonomy and Relatedness in Church as Predictors of Children’s Religiosity and Relationship with God

Concerns about the shifting religious landscape for young people in the United States provides the impetus to expand research investigating children’s experiences in Christian education. A significant number of children regularly attend Christian education in church and yet there is limited research investigating how those programs support children’s faith. Guided by self-determination theory, this research investigates whether instructional practices can support children’s religiosity and relationship with God. The present study specifically assessed whether children’s perceived relatedness with adults and peers in church, and children’s perceived autonomy in Sunday school, predicted children’s religiosity and relationship with God. Two hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted to identify if the church variables were significant predictors of an identified relationship to God. Neither perceived relatedness in church nor perceived autonomy in Sunday school were significant predictors of identified religiosity. However, perceived relatedness in church did significantly predict relationship with God.

Karakteristik Pendidikan Iman dalam Pentakostalisme

The characteristics of faith education in Pentecostal churches are illustrated in this paper. Characteristics that further emphasize the process of discipleship in the church, education that produces new leaders, education that makes church growth, education referred to as the new apostolic church pattern and non-formal education described in the nature of this paper. These five characteristics form the basis for pentecostalism to develop into a denominational church whose growth is quite rapid until now.

Art in the Process of Integrating the Don Host to the Russian State

Introduction. Studying culture and art in the formation of the Cossacks, designing its estate status is carried out in the perspective of current ideas about cultural policy contributing to more complete systemic reconstruction of the process. The novelty consists in showing the interaction of artistic and traditional household culture, the transformation of the latter. The purpose and objectives were analyzing the role of art in integrating the Cossacks into the Russian state, identifying the direction of changes in the culture; historical periodization of perception and adaptation of new art forms; establishing the specificity of the selected periods and the results achieved. Methods and materials. Research methods include the historical one, which allows considering changes in culture based on facts of social history, and cultural one, which gives approaches to studying regulation of the integration process in accordance with the principles of cultural policy. The source base consists of published official documents (letters, laws, decrees) containing reliable information, and art criticism, historical and ethnographic literature, which describes specific phenomena of culture and art. Analysis. The supreme power used effective and relevant for a particular historical period institutions and resources: religion and church (17th c.); service in the army and military education system (18th c.); reforming of social organization (incorporation into the estate structure of the state) and the control system of the Army (separation of the military and civilian system of administration) (19th c.). Results. By creating infrastructure, developing church and secular education, the government promoted systemic renewal of culture and Cossacks’ digestion of its forms that were perceived in Russia and Europe as close, identical and related (architecture, painting, choral singing and orchestra music, drama and musical theater). At the early stage of integration into the Russian state, contact forms and democratic nature of the cultural interaction process prevailed. Cultural expansion of the 18th – 19th centuries had a systemic nature and was determined by purposeful influence of the institutions (church, army, school and social elite) that contributed to renewal of culture according to the Western European model.

IDENTITAS GEREJA SUKU: Konstruksi Identitas Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) Margoyudan dalam Pelayanan Sosial Gereja di Surakarta

This article discusses the identity of the church Pasamuwan Kristen (community members) of Gereja Kristen Jawa/Java Christian Church (GKJ) Margoyudan, Surakarta, Central Java. Pasamuan Kristen GKJ Margoyudan’s identity construction is based on two factors: internal identity and external identity. By employing documents/literature review and in-depth interviews, this research found that the construction of internal identities of Pasamuan Kristen GKJ Margoyudan was built from the long history of Zending Missionary’s role from the Netherlands. The Zending Missionary had delivered the first identity of GKJ Margoyudan as a church which has characteristic of Javanese fellowship but still following many agreements of European social identity, Javanese culture domination as the main identity, and the church building as community solidarity identity. From the external side, the support came from synod of GKJ as the center of evangelism and the government, especially Central Java government. Synod of GKJ and the government support the church community to preserve Javanese culture through Javanese songs, Javanese language, and other related culture activities. They also transformed the church building into a cultural heritage in order to assimilate it with the social identity. The research found a conclusion that stronger acceptance from others to GKJ Margoyudan is partly because of the social role of the church in education and health since long ago. GKJ Margoyudan is accepted in the wider community as an assimilationist identity.

Деятельность миссионерских обществ в сфере образования в XIX – начале XX в.

The considered period is characterized by the major changes in economic, political, religious and cultural life of the Russian Empire. Missionary service extended and deepened. At the same time, parishes were of great importance, new dioceses in which various forms of charity and church education were allocated. The authors analyzed activity of missionary societies in the educational sphere in the Oryol Province in 19th – the beginning of the 20th century. As an example, the authors highlight the activities of the Oryol Orthodox Peter and Paul Brotherhood, established in 1887 by the Oryol diocese, which resolved issues of Orthodox charity. The authors conclude that missionary activity in 19th – the beginning of the 20th century played the major role in raising the level of education, both in separate parts of the Russian state, and in the Russian Empire as a whole.

Education and Pleasure in the Early Church: Perspectives from East and West

Early Christian teachers and preachers were often cautious about, if not suspicious of, pleasure, but they also had a lively awareness of the psychological aspects of pedagogy, and of the power of pleasure and delight to persuade, move, instruct and even convert. This article explores the treatment of pleasure as a pedagogical tool, tracing this subject through the lens of sermons, letters, treatises and poetry written in Latin and Greek and drawing out both classical and biblical themes. It notes that, while most of the authors considered acknowledge pleasure as a potential problem in pedagogy, it is a problem they attempt to navigate. The article sketches out various approaches to the problem, noting especially the pleasure involved in reading, performing and expounding Scripture; pleasure used as a conscious educational strategy; and discussions which weigh up the dangers and gains of pleasure in education.

청소년 대상 교회교육에서 플립러닝의 효과

청소년 대상 교회교육에서 플립러닝의 효과

An Article on the Church Education based on the Reformed Life Theology

An Article on the Church Education based on the Reformed Life Theology

Rethinking Developmentally Appropriate Concept in Indonesian Picture Bible Story Book

In Christian education, inheriting faith values to children since a young age was a pivotal responsibility for parents, the church, and Christian education institutions. According to a previous study, inheriting these values was applied through the tradition of reading illustrated Bible together with parents. In this study, illustrated Bible was not the Bible. It was illustrated literature that contained Bible stories. Using the perspective of Developmentally-Appropriate, the researchers elaborated how illustrated Bible in the marketplace had or had not used the developmentally appropriate concept for young children. This research would be a reference to design illustrated Bible for young children, in the form of printed book or application, and a reference for parents and educators to choose an illustrated children Bible which was appropriate for a child’s age, and for publishers to give age label for children Bible products.

Orthodox Church and Science Education Policy in Modern Greece

The aim of this paper is to present the influence the Greek Orthodox Church has on matters of Education Policy in the Modern Greek state, especially on Science Education. Historically, since its foundation, the Greek state is closely linked to the Orthodox Church, which is the institution of orthodox Christianity, the official religious dogma of the Greek state as it is explicitly mentioned in the Greek Constitution. Since the foundation of the Modern Greek state, nearly two centuries ago, the Orthodox Church plays a key role in every aspect of general policy, and especially in educational policy. It is characteristic that religious affairs and education are governed by the same ministry, the Ministry of Education, Research and Religions, and orthodox priests are public employees enjoying the status of civil servants. Historically, this interlink of the Church with the State can be easily explained by the privileged relation the patriarch had with the sultan in the Ottoman empire, a status that continued to exist in a different form in the epoch of the Modern Greek state. Due to its privileged position in the state apparatus, the Orthodox Church and its multitude of official and unofficial organizations could control the educational policy and especially the national curriculum. This control is more obvious in science education. The aim of this paper is to present the influence the Greek Orthodox Church has on matters of secular education policy in the Modern Greek state, especially on the curriculum of natural sciences. Here, we don’t refer to the parallel secondary education system organized by the Church, which is another point of confrontation between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek state in several occasions.

“Grammar Teaching” and Models of Church Education in the 1720s

In the early eighteenth century, the main model of literacy training in Russia was the universal “traditional” model based on the Alphabet Book, the Psalter, and the Book of Hours. The Petrine reforms established a new educational model for the clergy, i. e. the so-called “Latin model”. It was described in the Ecclesiastic Regulation and enjoyed state support; by the 1730s, it had become widespread in seminaries, replacing the traditional model. This paper considers grammar training, a model of education associated with Feodosy (Yanovsky), archbishop of Novgorod. This method implied teaching Old Church Slavonic through learning grammar. A Synodal decree on teaching children in episcopal schools (May 31, 1722) proposed this model as an alternative to the other two. Some documents testify to an attempt to introduce this model in the schools of Yanovsky’s diocese. The article considers materials on the certification of teachers who taught children in the capital (1722–1723) and other decrees and reports made by Feodosy: these make it possible to connect his activity with the decree of the Synod. The materials considered by the author provide information on literacy training among children of different classes. Irodion Tikhonov, who taught in the Alexander Nevsky School, was a representative of the new approach and certified teachers; his reports and the teachers’ notes demonstrate that the conflict between the grammar and traditional methods of learning should be considered, among other things, as a conflict of two types of spelling: the grammar method (which was necessary to teach the correct spelling used in printed Church Slavonic texts) was mechanically applied to all types of texts written in cursive writing.

Reimagining Religious Education for Young, Black, Christian Women: Womanist Resistance in the Form of Hip-Hop

How might the black church and womanist scholarship begin to re-imagine religious education in ways that attends more deliberately to the unique concerns and interests of younger black, Christian women? Throughout the history of the black church, despite being marginalized or silenced within their varied denominations, black women have been key components for providing the religious education within their churches. However, today, in many church communities, we are seeing a new, emerging trend whereby young, black, Christian women are opting out of traditional approaches to religious education. They view contemporary church education as insufficient to address their contrasting range of real-life difficulties and obstacles. Instead, these young women have been turning to the work of contemporary black female hip-hop artists as a resource for religious and theological reflection. Drawing from focus groups conducted with young black female seminarians and explored through the lens of womanist theory, I argue this trend is forming a new, legitimate type of religious education where the work of artists such as Beyoncé and Solange are framing an unrecognized womanist, spirituality of resistance for young black women. Both religious educators and womanist scholars need to pay attention to this overlooked, emerging trend. Respectively, I suggest religious education and womanist scholarship would benefit by considering new resources for religious, theological, and pedagogical reflection, one that is emerging out of young black women’s engagement with the art and music of specific black female artists within hip-hop.

Russian Orthodoxy Nowadays

Russian Orthodoxy is one of the most mythologized and difficult for scientific research fragments of modern Russia’s social life. Thus, the statements still exist on the universal Orthodoxy of the Russian people, because the State statistics does not really characterize a condition of the population or its different groups religiosity (rare exception is few indicators in the reports on periodical population census). Moreover, the researcher constantly faces polar estimates of the same situations in Russian Orthodoxy, both in publications of its irreconcilable opponents and apologists, while analysis of dichotomy “religiosity/ secularism” often goes beyond the boundaries of scientific discussions. At the same time these difficulties shouldn’t be overestimated. Splendid works by domestic sociologists have emerged that characterized actual religiosity of our contemporaries, formation of Church statistics has begun, reliable information on real events in Orthodox life have begun to be published regularly in the materials of cathedral and diocesan assemblies, Orthodox mass-media are becoming more and more informative and analytical (including Internet) and so on. Euphoria in connection with religious life legalization in Russia is passing off, the attitude to what is taking place in the sphere of Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) – the clergy and laity – is becomingmore realistic, while problematic situations are becoming an object of open discussions and for the most part of them appropriate solutions are being found. Along with all the unshakeable fundamentals of Orthodoxy, dynamism of modern Orthodoxy life is very high, as it is shown in the article. Russian Orthodoxy goes far and in various ways beyond Church boundaries. In the article an attempt is made to throw light on just several aspects of this phenomenon. These are estimates of a number of people leading an Orthodox way of life, parameters of rapid expansion of Church institutions and increase of the clergy number, innovations in Church education, ROC’s attitude to non-Orthodoxy and adherence to different faith, problems of real separation of Church and State and the place of Orthodoxy in modern culture. ROC’s role in social and political life of Russia is clearly in contrast with the situation in a number of Western countries and it seems to be one of significant but unfortunately, weakly accented problems of modern politological analysis.

University scandals and the public sphere of Imperial Austria: the Wahrmund and Zimmermann affairs

ABSTRACTBetween 1907 and 1911, Imperial Austria experienced two major controversies concerning entanglements of science and religion. In 1907, the Innsbruck specialist in church law, Ludwig Wahrmund, publicly criticized the new ‘antimodernist’ and antiscientific trends of Catholic science, causing semester-long protests, fights, university closures and heated parliamentary debates. Antagonized in Innsbruck, Wahrmund relocated to Prague. The controversy triggered by his work, however, united students from across the monarchy in Wahrmund’s defence. In 1910, an analogous conflict arose in Cracow after Kazimierz Zimmermann was appointed professor of Catholic sociology. This time the protest against his teachings, although intensive, transgressed Galician boundaries only to a limited extent, failing to mobilize progressive student groups to go on the streets outside of the province. This article analyses the difference between protests against Wahrmund and Zimmermann from a spatial perspective. The author argues that the way both conflicts were received in politics and in local university cities indicates that there was an Imperial Austrian public sphere that transgressed national boundaries and linguistic divisions. Conflicts over contested topics, like the long-heated relationship between Church, science and higher education, were charged events that brought this public sphere to the fore. This translingual, imperial public sphere remained, however, hierarchically structured. A conflict in Innsbruck had more weight than one in Cracow, both within political discussions and in local presses.

LEARNING THE SPIRIT OF HUMAN DIGNITY: A PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION

Under what conditions could people learn the spirit of human dignity in Church education? This question is explored in a practical-theological way with help of a conceptual approach on education and dignity and the observation and analysis of some paintings and drawings by Rembrandt as can be done in a concrete lesson. ...