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“What ‘Great Cloud of Witnesses’? Isn’t My Own Religious Experience Enough?”
Author(s) -
Sherman Robert J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00057
Subject(s) - constructive , acculturation , christianity , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , philosophy , theology , computer science , anthropology , process (computing) , ethnic group , operating system
The author notes that current seminary students show great variation in their academic skills, in their familiarity with the basics of Christianity, and in their sense of, and skill in, theological method. This condition is both caused and exacerbated by the students' acculturation in American religious privatism, which makes them resist a critical and constructive examination of their views and hinders their understanding of theology as an undertaking of and for the Church. The author describes a number of pedagogical strategies, teaching techniques, and classroom exercises that have shown some effectiveness in overcoming these problems.