The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of GodMany of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession. |
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... offers here a rich and nuanced interpretation of the Christian faith as seen through the eyes of its most formative exponents—the theologians, bishops, poets, and hymn writers of the early church. Written with clarity and conviction ...
... offers here a rich and nuanced interpretation of the Christian faith as seen through the eyes of its most formative exponents—the theologians, bishops, poets, and hymn writers of the early church. Written with clarity and conviction ...
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... offers a detailed exposition of select passages from the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament), his purpose being to show that these books must be given a Christian interpretation. But he prefaces his work with an ...
... offers a detailed exposition of select passages from the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament), his purpose being to show that these books must be given a Christian interpretation. But he prefaces his work with an ...
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... offer no philosophical argument for the existence of God drawn from the world of nature. When speaking of the revelation of God in creation they cite the Scriptures, usually Romans, “God's invisible nature is clearly perceived in the ...
... offer no philosophical argument for the existence of God drawn from the world of nature. When speaking of the revelation of God in creation they cite the Scriptures, usually Romans, “God's invisible nature is clearly perceived in the ...
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... offered to a just man that allowed him to see.”27 The knowledge of God begins with God. As this passage suggests, when speaking of how God is known early Christian thinkers favored the metaphor of seeing, not hearing. In his response to ...
... offered to a just man that allowed him to see.”27 The knowledge of God begins with God. As this passage suggests, when speaking of how God is known early Christian thinkers favored the metaphor of seeing, not hearing. In his response to ...
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... offer to You O Lord, this awesome and unbloody sacrifice, beseeching You to deal with us not according to our sins but according to Your great mercy and love. ANAPHORA OF THE LITURGY OF SAINT JAMES ALL THE FIGURES portrayed in this book ...
... offer to You O Lord, this awesome and unbloody sacrifice, beseeching You to deal with us not according to our sins but according to Your great mercy and love. ANAPHORA OF THE LITURGY OF SAINT JAMES ALL THE FIGURES portrayed in this book ...
Contents
Seek His Face Always | |
Not My Will But Thine | |
The End Given in the Beginning | |
The Reasonableness of Faith | |
Happy the People Whose God Is the Lord | |
The Glorious Deeds of Christ | |
Making This Thing Other | |
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING | |
Likeness to | |
INDEX OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS | |
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