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Calvin - Ethics, Eschatology, and Education (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Calvin - Ethics, Eschatology, and Education (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This study examines the influence of John Calvin in ethics
eschatology and education, as well as those influences that
affected him. It examines his writings to determine if his vision
made him an innovator. The research searched for reforms in the
areas of ethics, curriculum, understanding of the teaching office,
and universal education. It also looked at philosophy, economics,
and labor. A belief in the after life and end times was an ethical
motivation for Calvin and education was a means by which the people
that he worked with and wrote to could understand how they should
live and why they should live like that. Thus, there is an
important connection among ethics, eschatology and education. All
people were to work to their potential at their job because in
doing their job they would honor God. Teachers were especially
important. Those who taught would affect the quality of education.
Calvin worked to provide teacher training and support. He believed
that all occupations could be a special calling from God and
education was a means to prepare the young person for his or her
calling. Schools existed in Geneva before Calvin arrived in 1536;
however, they did not function in the way that Calvin would have
liked. Calvin provided the elementary students with a needed text
when he prepared a catechism. The students had written material
that they could read and study and a systematic presentation of the
basic doctrines of the Christian faith. Calvin also wanted more
appropriate facilities in which the students could learn. Although
his organization of the schools improved the atmosphere for
learning, the building of the Academy was his dream and became his
major educational achievement in the city of Geneva. Because16th
century students needed to be prepared for the new world, there was
a need for curriculum change. The students were required to read
many of the prominent Greek and Roman authors in the ancient
languages but the student learned theology, Hebrew, poetry,
dialectic and rhetoric, physics, and mathematics as well. Calvin
wished to graduate a well rounded scholar who could take his or her
place in society. In this way the citizens of Geneva and all those
of the Reformed belief would be better prepared for life on earth
and the after life.
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