Book Name: A History of Religious Education
Writer: ELMER L. TOWNS
Historiography time after time puts more accentuation on occasions, dates, and places than people. In any case, individuals impact the world forever
live. They longed for a superior world, battled wars for their feelings, showed understudies, yielded, and passed on inopportune passings.
Without them there is no history, nor is there a future. This volume puts the essential accentuation on individuals, on those men who have significantly
affected the historical backdrop of Christian training. It is proposed to be not a history of Christian training yet chronicled investigations of the
monsters in that field. Those chosen for incorporation in this work either spoke to the instructive patterns of their time or initiated changes or
developments which in the long run, if not promptly, influenced religious education. Not the entirety of the teachers picked was perceived broadly
during their lifetimes; JohnAmos Comenius, for instance, got some acknowledgment from his counterparts but was nearly overlooked for two
centuries after his demise.
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Presently he is hailed by some as “the first current instructor.” Nor were the entirety of the teachers remembered for
this volume primarily educators; Martin Luther was initial a reformer and evangelist, yet he had a significant impact on the universe of training. No
teachers later than John Dewey included, to some degree since essential and optional sources are promptly accessible, and in part, because their
effect on strict instruction presently can’t seem to be resolved. The editorial manager was helped significantly in settling on the decisions by John
Warwick Montgomery, just as by the various contributing authors. Each of the last mentioned, by chance, is a perceived expert on the figure about
whom he writes. The vast majority of the writers have composed a paper or distributed academic articles or even books regarding their matters. A few
of the articles in this volume have as of now appeared in print. Each article
looks at the subject’s instructive way of thinking and the manners by which
lie implemented it, and each situates the peruser to the first sources.
Citations from the writings of the subject of each article are, however much
as could reasonably be expected, set off from the text through space. No
citations from optional sources, then again, are indented. This is a reference
work for every single genuine understudy of instruction, philosophy, and
Christian education. It is significant to guarantee perusing for undergrad
and graduate courses in church history and the historical backdrop of
Christian education.
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Two graduate collaborators merit acknowledgment for
their assistance: Glen Miller for his bibliographical research which filled in
as the reason for doling out and choosing articles; and John Fischer for his
assistance in checking the numerous subtleties that normally emerge in the
ahistorical examination. My on account of, Mrs. Marie Chapman for
perusing and serving to edit the composition.
Part OneA.D. 1-500Education is fundamental to the life of the Christian
church, similarly as it has been to the Hebrew country. Each Israelite is to
be told in the law of, natural to the national Mt. Sinai: “And these words,
which I order thee this day, will be in the heart: and thou shalt discuss them
when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Also, thou shalt tie them for
a sign upon thine hand, and they will be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Furthermore, thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
entryways.” (Deut. 6:6-9) Since the Christian church was conceived and
sustained in the Hebrew milieu, it is regular that the church strongly
underscores the service of teaching.
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It was the Jewish culture into which
Jesus ventured and which He dominated. Concerning Him we read: “. . .
seeing the hoards, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his
devotees came unto him: and he opened his mouth and taught them” (Matt.
5:1,2). At the point when He completed, “the individuals were astounded at
his regulation: he trained them as one having authority, and not as the
copyists” (Matt. 7:28,29). Christmas an extraordinary instructor, by the
righteousness of the two His techniques and His message. The messenger
Paul, who professed to have seen Jesus in the tissue (II Cor. 5:16), was first
an evangelist who conveyed the Christian message all through Asia Minor
lastly to Rome, yet he was likewise a teacher worried about second-and
third-generation Christians. “The things that thou hast knew about me
among numerous observers, the same commit thou to dependable men,
who will have the option to show others likewise” (II Tim. 2:2).Early in the
third century, a catechumenal arrangement of guidance was established by
which changes over were set up for Christian submersion in a third-year
course. These schools evolved into places for the guard of the gospel and the
preparation of youngsters for ministry.
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