God, Education, and Modern Metaphysics

God, Education, and Modern Metaphysics
Author: Nigel Tubbs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317753887

The Western tradition has long held the view that while it is possible to know that God exists, it nevertheless remains impossible to know what God is. The ineffability of the monotheistic God extends to each of the Abrahamic faiths. In this volume, Tubbs considers Aristotle’s logic of mastery and questions the assumptions upon which God’s ineffability rests. Part I explores the tensions between the philosophical definition of the One as "thought thinking itself" (the Aristotelian concept of noesis noeseos) and the educational vocation of the individual as "know thyself" (gnothi seuton). Identifying vulnerabilities in the logic of mastery, Tubbs puts forth an original logic of education, which he calls modern metaphysics, or a logic of learning and education. Part II explores this new educational logic of the divine as a "logic of tears," as a "dreadful religious teacher," and as a way to cohere the three Abrahamic faiths in an educational concept of monotheism.

God, Education, and Modern Metaphysics

God, Education, and Modern Metaphysics
Author: Nigel Tubbs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317753895

The Western tradition has long held the view that while it is possible to know that God exists, it nevertheless remains impossible to know what God is. The ineffability of the monotheistic God extends to each of the Abrahamic faiths. In this volume, Tubbs considers Aristotle’s logic of mastery and questions the assumptions upon which God’s ineffability rests. Part I explores the tensions between the philosophical definition of the One as "thought thinking itself" (the Aristotelian concept of noesis noeseos) and the educational vocation of the individual as "know thyself" (gnothi seuton). Identifying vulnerabilities in the logic of mastery, Tubbs puts forth an original logic of education, which he calls modern metaphysics, or a logic of learning and education. Part II explores this new educational logic of the divine as a "logic of tears," as a "dreadful religious teacher," and as a way to cohere the three Abrahamic faiths in an educational concept of monotheism.

The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
Author: Vine Deloria, Jr.
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1555917666

Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.

Metaphysics and the Existence of God

Metaphysics and the Existence of God
Author: Thomas C. O'Brien
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258668624

A Reflection On The Question Of God's Existence In Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics, Texts And Studies, V1. The Thomist, V23, No. 1-3.

New Proofs for the Existence of God

New Proofs for the Existence of God
Author: Robert J. Spitzer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802863833

Responding to contemporary popular atheism, Robert J. Spitzer's New Proofs for the Existence of God examines the considerable evidence for God and creation that has come to light from physics and philosophy during the last forty years. --from publisher description.

Philosophy and Modern Liberal Arts Education

Philosophy and Modern Liberal Arts Education
Author: N. Tubbs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137358920

This book argues for a modern version of liberal arts education, exploring first principles within the divine comedy of educational logic. By reforming the three philosophies of metaphysics, nature and ethics upon which liberal arts education is based, Tubbs offers a profound transatlantic philosophical and educational challenge to the subject.

Religion, Education and Post-Modernity

Religion, Education and Post-Modernity
Author: Andrew Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134426410

This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education. At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity explores and illuminates the problems, and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture. The book describes the emergence of post-modernity, considers the impact of post-modernity on religion, addresses its impact on the philosophy of religion and considers the nature of religious education in the post-modern world. Andrew Wright argues that, although post-modernity has much to offer the religious educator, there are also many pitfalls and dangers to be avoided. Steering clear of the extreme of post-modern hyper-realism, he constructs a religious pedagogy sensitive to post-modern concerns for alterity, difference and the voice of the Other, whilst insisting on the importance of reasons in cultivating religious literacy.

Public Theology Perspectives on Religion and Education

Public Theology Perspectives on Religion and Education
Author: Manfred L. Pirner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429877242

In order to draw out the relationship between publicly-oriented Christianity and education, this book demonstrates that education is an important method and prerequisite of public theology, as well as an urgent object of public theology research’s attention. Featuring work from diverse academic disciplines—including religion education, theology, philosophy, and religious studies—this edited collection also contends with the educational challenges that come with the decline of religion on the one hand and its transformation and regained public relevance on the other. Taken together, the contributions to this volume provide a comprehensive argument for why education deserves systematic attention in the context of public theology discourse, and vice versa.

Religious Education as a Dialogue with Difference

Religious Education as a Dialogue with Difference
Author: Kevin O'Grady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351064363

Religious Education as a Dialogue with Difference addresses current issues over the study of religion in publicly maintained schools. Are liberal, inclusive approaches to the study of religion suited to the aims of education in a democracy? Do liberal democratic aims offer the right framework for the study of religion? By presenting research on English secondary school pupils' motivation in religious education, this volume argues that religious education is best understood as a democratic dialogue with difference. The book offers empirical evidence for this claim, and it demonstrates how learners gain in religious literacy, both through the exercise of democratic citizenship in the classroom and towards the goal of life-long democratic citizenship.

Teaching Religion Using Technology in Higher Education

Teaching Religion Using Technology in Higher Education
Author: John Hilton III
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351616587

This edited collection helps those teaching religion in higher education utilize technology to increase student learning both inside and outside of the classroom. Recent times have seen major technological shifts that have important implications for how religion is taught at a post-secondary level. Providing multiple perspectives on a range of topics—including social media use and interactive classroom learning —this book presents a series of original case studies and insights on how technology can be used in religion classes in higher education to improve student learning.