If Church teaching were to be wholeheartedly accepted by the Church as something that should be promoted with enthusiasm, if Humanae Vitae becomes seen as teaching that will make people's lives holier and happier, several consequences follow
for education concerning sex and relationships.
The dangers inherent in this and the need
for education concerning this are further discussed.
Not exact matches
Three Perth - based specialist
education providers are achieving commercial success addressing literacy
concerns as parents seek to drive better outcomes
for their children.
An advocate
for a local teachers union also expressed
concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the
education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.
The
concern some people have is that children will end up living
for years in a local community, where they'll be entitled to
education and other government services paid
for with tax dollars.
All of which is fascinating
for data - obsessed
education researchers, but what's the bottom line
for our hypothetical
concerned parents who are wondering where to send their kid to school?
Calls have included asking representatives to vote against Betsy DeVos's nomination
for secretary of
education or asking Customs and Border Control to voice
concern over President Trump's suspension of refugee immigration.
Rather, they were
concerned for the higher
education industry itself,
for graduates who couldn't find jobs, and
for corporations who couldn't find what they were looking
for.
Dan Allan, the Director of the Student Budget Consultation Program, who works with students entering college or university, believes
for many young Canadians their biggest
concern is whether the cost of
education is worth the burden that comes with student loans.
Thank you
for your
concern for my
education, I hope you have a good day (evening?
To make the congregation a central
concern for theological
education, we need a new pedagogical strategy that assumes that theology is a form of practical knowledge.
We have placed an ambitious and expensive program at the heart of theological
education at the same time that a
concern for proving a solid academic preparation has led the faculty to stress a core curriculum.
She writes of the Sabbath,
for example, as a sign of God as universal creator and simultaneously the God of Jewish history, of Abraham and Moses, «
concerned with the details of Israel's marital life, with the
education of their children, with their just measures and fair law courts.»
Such liberal
education is entirely consistent with a high degree of specialized technical instruction, provided the latter is carried out imaginatively and with continuous
concern for the wider bearings and the deeper meanings of the specialty.
How does the Christian
concern for a higher
education that prevents the mechanization of life and marginalisation of the weaker people and the destruction of the ecological basis of life by technocracy find expression?
Thus the Commission called
for a Christian
concern for Higher
Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made
for man and not man
for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.
In Algeria, because of the direct French control, the official schools have shown no
concern for Muslim Arabic
education.
His
concern was shared by many other progressive denominational leaders, who saw the usual
education in confessional theology as too narrow
for the demands of modern ministry.
I have to leave my immigrant church, a
concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language,
education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.
One does get the impression, however, that if Farley had his way, there would be in many of our seminaries much less preoccupation with
education for the professional tasks of the clergy and much more
concern with learning how to discern theologically the meaning of «ecclesial presence» in the various situations of life in the world.
People of faith and foundations with
concern for religious liberty must start establishing alternative means to help students fund their
education.
Almost all Lutheran theological writing has been generated in European or North American academies — in part, the legacy of Luther's own
concern for learning and
education — and it has been done almost exclusively by European or (more recently) North American men among whom differences of race, economic and social class, and level of
education are even less remarkable than their theological differences.
The churches» historic
concern for education initially focused on efforts to compensate
for the exclusion of blacks from access to elementary
education.
If the traditional
concerns for education, benevolences and foreign missions need to be carefully scrutinized and their priority status evaluated, the first priority.
A perennial
concern for observers of theological
education is the perceived gap between the seminaries and congregations.
Thus, when recreation is rightly conceived, it is a suitable major guiding
concern for education as a whole.
The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships —
concern by the parents
for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation
for the right kind of
education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.
The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological
education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in
concern for religion in public
education.
It does not, however, make any less imperative the inclusion of recreational
concerns within the school curriculum,
for it is in the program of formal
education that meaning, perspective, and direction in leisure activity may best be taught.
My involvement with the Reformed Journal provides a continuing
education on a more general level; several of my fellow editors have been promoting a combination of sane orthodoxy and enlightened social
concern for decades.
«General
education» here means studies that are carried out with primary
concern for their universal human relevance and with due attention to those ideas of fundamental importance which span the gulfs between the specialized disciplines.
abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex
education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause
for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.
Downing also calls attention to the images that had been incubating
for years in Lewis's fertile imagination and that suddenly came to life in the Narnia stories, and Jacobs suggests that we should hardly be surprised when a writer with a long record of
concern for moral
education turns to writing stories
for children.
My predecessor at Duke, H. Shelton Smith, asserted (in Faith and Nurture) the important unity of
education and theology and sought to build a bridge between liberalism's
concern with the social order and neo-orthodoxy's
concern for the tradition.
Historically, church
education has vacillated between a
concern for conversion and a
concern for nurture.
I believe that the contemporary student generation's
concern for freedom in higher
education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.
It provides a base
for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing
concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation
for church
education.
«I think a lot of Christian educationalists are
concerned about the direction of travel... they are day - in day - out helping to run schools... they don't feel they get much credit
for it they feel that instead senior educational figures talk about Christian
education and religious
education and religious schools as if they are the problem.»
And those of us who believe in respect
for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds
for deep
concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an
education from which all religious reference has been purged.
The highest task
for health
education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals of reason, qualitative judgment, and ethical
concern.
«Every method of
education if founded, wholly or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and of grace, and relying on the sole powers of Eric Hester, a retired Catholic headmaster and schools inspector, draws out the heart of the Catholic approach to
education concerning sexuality, and calls
for its application.
In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common
concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures;
for a religious
education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character;
for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.
While sometimes church involvement in
education has seemed to be self - interested and seen as a way of propagating the faith, at its best it represents a Christian
concern for the full dignity of the human being.
(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs
for the development of theological
education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive
concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.
Clearly, then, it is important
for anyone
concerned about the health of theological
education, or, more broadly,
for anyone
concerned about the health of theology, to be aware, not simply of one or another of the voices in the debate, but of the overall structure and movement of the debate as a whole.
Thus implicitly and explicitly the denominations in their
concern for the
education of ministers, and the schools entrusted with the task, make it evident that they think of themselves increasingly as branches or members of a single community, as orders and institutions with special duties or assignments to be carried out in partnership with other branches of one society.
However, says Cobb, (and rightly so), Whitehead's view does give support to a Christian
concern for the underprivileged, since lack of
education and basic human needs limits «the rational self - direction of conduct.»
Put simply, this has to mean that where there is deep and urgent
concern for basic human needs,
for food and clothing and health care and
education, there can not be the requisite peace
for the experience of world consciousness.
A third area of focus
for continuing
education that is relevant
for the achievement of mental health is
concerned with the meaning of religion in relation to the meanings of the other disciplines of human thought.
The opposition is really to be sought between one way of acting which is contraceptive and opposed to a prudent and generous fruitfulness, and another way which is, in an ordered relationship to responsible fruitfulness and which has a
concern for education and all the essential, human and Christian values.»