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Crisis and Care (Hardcover)
Dustin D Benac, Erin Weber-Johnson; Foreword by Craig Dykstra
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In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors
describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian
practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies.
Whether allowing spiritually formative reading to enhance a
literature course, employing table fellowship and shared meals to
reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or using
Christian hermeneutical practices to interpret data in an economics
course, these teacher-authors envision ways of teaching and
learning that are rooted in the rich tradition of Christian
practices, as together they reconceive classrooms and laboratories
as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.
How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with
the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph
Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in
the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar
ecclesiological concepts-including the body of Christ, communion of
saints, and people of God- but rather than focusing on theological
abstractions or worldly cynicism, he evaluates the church in its
scriptural, historical, theological, and social contexts. After
stripping away the marketing and shallowness that characterizes
much of contemporary church life, Small finds hope that the
church's faith, nature, and mission can be lived out within God's
calling. Both sociologically honest and theologically discerning,
Flawed Church, Faithful God offers a constructive Reformed yet
ecumenical ecclesiology for the real world.
Identifying a widespread hunger for guidance in people's quest
today for a genuine encounter with God, Craig Dykstra explores the
contributions of the traditions, education, worship practices, and
disciplines of the Reformed Christian community in helping people
to grow in faith. This new edition includes a foreword by Dorothy
Bass, Director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and
Formation of People in Faith, and a study guide by Syd Hielema,
professor at Dordt College in Sioux City, Iowa. From Dorothy Bass's
foreword: 'What does it mean to live the Christian life faithfully
and well? And how can we help one another to do so?' I recently
heard Craig offer these two questions as a summary of his life-long
interests. As he notes early in Growing in the Life of Faith, the
ongoing forms of Christian living in his family and church were
determinative in planting these questions in his mind and shaping
his answers to them. He insists that thinking and doing cannot be
separated-and neither can believing and living, education and its
content, or theology and the means of sharing it with others. This
is where 'practices' come in-not at all through a simplistic
'putting ideas into
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