Sentences with phrase «like paideia»

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

In this way Christian paideia, like paideia in Plato's day, bore on the public realm, but in a quite different sense of «public.»

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Christian thing is not «like» paideia; it does not merely make use of received paideia, as Clement of Rome had done.

For Wood we do not need to posit something ahistorically and cross-culturally universal to all human beings, something «objective» like an invisible and immortal soul (which paideia presupposed in ancient Athens), of which «dispositions» and «character traits» are modifications.

On the other hand, if you appropriate the «Berlin» model's stress on Wissenschaft on the «Athens» model's terms (wissenschaftlich education as paideia - like «formation» in capacities for critical inquiry) do not suppose that you can omit the other pole of «professional» education, for as we have seen, Wissenschaft is theologically relevant only insofar as it is tied to church leadership roles.

Our proposal suggests that theological schooling, paideia - like, helps capacitate persons with habitus.

Like classical paideia, it does this indirectly, by focusing study on something else.