Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity

Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity
ISBN-10
0191084441
ISBN-13
9780191084447
Category
Religion
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2016-11-24
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Jens Zimmermann

Description

Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism. A number of official Catholic documents have stressed the importance of 'Christian humanism', as a vehicle of Christian social teaching and, indeed, as a Christian philosophy of culture. Fundamentally, humanism aims to explore what it means to be human and what the grounds are for human flourishing. Featuring contributions from internationally renowned Christian authors from a variety of disciplines in the humanities, Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism recovers a Christian humanist ethos for our time. The volume offers a chronological overview (from patristic humanism to the Reformation and beyond) and individual examples (Jewell, Calvin) of past Christian humanisms. The chapters are connected through the theme of Christian paideia as the foundation for liberal arts education.

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