Comments on: Out of a broken heart. http://royeglass.com/2008/03/31/out-of-a-broken-heart/ Seek. Find. Live. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: randymolson http://royeglass.com/2008/03/31/out-of-a-broken-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-47 randymolson Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:37 +0000 http://royeglass.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-47 I cannot find this book in the ones you gave me but here is what I found on Google about the book: Will Our Children Have Faith? By John H. Westerhoff, III, John H. Westerhoff Deckhead: The revised edition of a classic in Christian education. Originally written in 1976, this classic critique of Christian education is back in a revised edition. Christian education, according to Westerhoff, has modelled itself on the schooling-instructional paradigm of our secular schools. Instead of expecting faith formation to happen within a variety of contexts -- the family, church, school, and the church school -- religious education has been relegated entirely to Sunday morning classes. There children learn the facts about religion, but will they learn or experience faith? How can we be communities that nourish and nurture the faith of children, instead of only teaching them facts?This revised edition includes a new foreword that summarizes Westerhoff's own faith journey that led him to write this book, and even to rethink portions of it today. Each of the original chapters concludes with notes that reveal some of Westerhoff's rethinking of the material since 1976. A new Afterword explores the context in which we live currently, and its implications for catechetical ministry. By John H. Westerhoff , III, John H . Westerhoff Published 2000 Morehouse Publishing Christian education of children 143 pages ISBN:0819218367 Add to my library Write review Buy this book Morehouse Publishing Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com - $16.00 Books-A-Million BookSense.com Google Product Search I cannot find this book in the ones you gave me but here is what I found on Google about the book:

Will Our Children Have Faith? By John H. Westerhoff, III, John H. Westerhoff

Deckhead: The revised edition of a classic in Christian education. Originally written in 1976, this classic critique of Christian education is back in a revised edition. Christian education, according to Westerhoff, has modelled itself on the schooling-instructional paradigm of our secular schools. Instead of expecting faith formation to happen within a variety of contexts — the family, church, school, and the church school — religious education has been relegated entirely to Sunday morning classes. There children learn the facts about religion, but will they learn or experience faith? How can we be communities that nourish and nurture the faith of children, instead of only teaching them facts?This revised edition includes a new foreword that summarizes Westerhoff’s own faith journey that led him to write this book, and even to rethink portions of it today. Each of the original chapters concludes with notes that reveal some of Westerhoff’s rethinking of the material since 1976. A new Afterword explores the context in which we live currently, and its implications for catechetical ministry.

By John H. Westerhoff
, III, John H
. Westerhoff
Published 2000
Morehouse Publishing
Christian education of
children
143 pages
ISBN:0819218367
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