God, human nature and education for peace : new approaches to moral and religious maturity /: new approaches to moral and religious maturity. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karl Ernst Nipkow.
• Authors: Nipkow, Karl Ernst
• Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Global Challenges and the Role of Religion -- Global Human Progress? -- A Global Civil Society -- Self-alienation and Education -- The Topical Approach in Religious Education -- Secular Moral Consciousness and Religion -- Religions -- Problem-solving or Problem-generating? -- In Search of a General Climate of Reconciliation -- Openness to the Wisdom of Religious Traditions -- Humanity and Memory -- Part I: God's Humanity -- 2 Human Images of God and God's Humanity -- Who Defines Whom? From Dogmatic Doctrines about God to Experience-related Images of God -- Images of God in Religious Education -- Misinterpretations and Misuse -- The Semantics of 'Human' and 'Humane' -- Compatible and Incompatible Relations -- The Emergence of God's Different 'Humanity' -- Educational Consequences -- Part II: Peace Through Justice -- 3 God, Cain, War and Evil in Children's Eyes -- The First Murder in the Bible -- Homicide in the Context of Worshipping -- Homicide as Fratricide -- Sin -- Its Passive and Active Structure -- Why did God not Prevent the Murder? The Risky Freedom of Human Beings Does God Govern People who make War? -- Children Reflecting about Good and Evil, God and the Devil -- Crime, Guilt, Human Manoeuvres and Children's Notions of Justice -- God's Life-preserving 'Not so!' -- Lamech and the Demon of Retaliation -- Cain Looking for Who He was Before He Became the War -- a Story about the Story -- 4 God and the Cry for Justice in the Psalms and Prophets -- God and Justice -- a Public Issue -- Spheres of Relevance: Private, Political, Public, Global -- Lamenting, Protesting, Praying, Thanking -- Justice -- a Category of Universal Order -- Bargaining and Reciprocity God's Justice as His Caring Faithfulness -- a Community of Mutual Solidarity -- Discovering the Psalms with Children -- Children and Truth -- Evident Experience and Familiar Language -- Methodological Approaches -- 'Courage to Change the Things I Can' -- Education for Justice with Young People -- Part III: Reconciliation Through Love -- 5 Young People, God and Jesus -- Towards a Culture of Compassion and Care -- 'It's Annoying, Simply Unjust!' -- Youth Protesting Against the Improbable and Impossible -- Religious Diversity in Young People -- Jesus -- a Fascinating, Ambiguous and Annoying Figure The Concept of 'Experience' Self-critically Revisited -- The Old and the Radical New -- Human Experiences Resisting Faith Experiences -- Education for Justice and Peace and the Culture of Compassion and Care -- 6 Christian Education Revised in the Spirit of God's Reconciling Joy -- The Joyless Character of Traditional Christian Nurture -- 'The Parable of the Two Sons' -- a Feast of Reconciliation -- Broken and Restored Community -- Jesus Celebrating -- Children Celebrating -- Learning by Surprise -- The Holy Sphere of Individual Religious Convictions -- The Male and the Female Hand of the Father 7 The Perspective of Victims -- Peace and Justice in the Light of Jesus' Death
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 241; Christian ethics; Maturation (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Judgment (Ethics); Christian ethics; Judgment (Ethics); Maturation (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351769389; 1351769383; 9781351769396; 1351769391; 9781351769372; 1351769375; 9781315197234; 1315197235
• Related ISBNs: 9781138716032; 0754608638; 0754608727; 9780754608639; 9780754608721
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