Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology: James Michael Lee's Social Science Religious Instruction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597525275)

Does education have any relation to theology? How do the educator's worldview commitments speak to his or her practice of education? James Michael Lee brought a definite answer to these questions--a firm no to the relations question, and an advocacy for empirical findings over and against any speculative or theoretical positions in reply to the commitments question. Lee claimed to have a universal, neutral metatheory for all religious education, a theory that would apply to all religious educators in any and every religion. But in proposing his theory he overlooked the way that empirical facts express worldviews. This book is a detective story, tracing commitments that lay underneath empirical "neutrality." In the process the reader will see avenues that unmistakably link education to theology. Education turns out to be a thoroughly worldview-conditioned process. This new work is essential reading for professors and students in both religious and general education.

Author: Edward J. Newell
ISBN-10: 1597525278
ISBN-13: 9781597525275
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.34d