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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... words of 1 Peter). Like all the major religions of the world, Christianity is more than a set of devotional practices and a moral code: it is also a way of thinking about God, about human beings, about the world and history. For ...
... words of 1 Peter). Like all the major religions of the world, Christianity is more than a set of devotional practices and a moral code: it is also a way of thinking about God, about human beings, about the world and history. For ...
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... words that created a new religious vocabulary and a cornucopia of scenes and images that stirred literary and artistic imagination as well as theological thought. God, the self, human community, the beginning and ending of things became ...
... words that created a new religious vocabulary and a cornucopia of scenes and images that stirred literary and artistic imagination as well as theological thought. God, the self, human community, the beginning and ending of things became ...
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... words on the organization of the book. The first three chapters deal with foundations: how God is known, Christian worship and sacraments, the Scriptures. From the beginning Christian thinkers recognized the centrality of biblical ...
... words on the organization of the book. The first three chapters deal with foundations: how God is known, Christian worship and sacraments, the Scriptures. From the beginning Christian thinkers recognized the centrality of biblical ...
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... words, “In the beginning God created,” and the phrase “made in the image and likeness of God” (1:26). Here I draw chiefly on the interpretation of these texts in the writings of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Their goal was to ...
... words, “In the beginning God created,” and the phrase “made in the image and likeness of God” (1:26). Here I draw chiefly on the interpretation of these texts in the writings of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Their goal was to ...
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... words, that is, Christian poetry, the latter on things that are wood and paint, that is, icons. Just as some Christians tried to understand the central mysteries of the faith, for example, the Holy Trinity and the person of Christ, in words ...
... words, that is, Christian poetry, the latter on things that are wood and paint, that is, icons. Just as some Christians tried to understand the central mysteries of the faith, for example, the Holy Trinity and the person of Christ, in words ...
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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