CONTENT
OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, The
CONTENT
OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, The
by James Michael Lee
Summary: This is the third volume of Lee's monumental trilogy in religious instruction. It presents the eight molar substantive contents present in every religious instruction act no matter where the act takes place or the age of the learners. It also shows how to teach each of these substantive contents in a way which is relevant and meaningful to learners. Its basic purpose is to help religious educators make their teaching ministry more thoroughly and more powerfully religious.
Spirit of the Book: This book is shot through and through with the spirt of red-hot religion, namely religion which burns into the lives of learners and transforms them into dynamic fully-functioning Christians. The author goes about this task by placing his book around two major recurring axes which go to make up its essential spirit: the religious instruction act as a real-life laboratory for Christian living, and a holistic view of both the learner and the teaching act itself. The book presents each of the eight molar substantive contents in such a way that they are fused to actual Christian living during the religious instruction act. And the book is wholeheartedly holistic in that it sees all authentic religion teaching as the fusion of the cognitive, affective, and lifestyle domains.
What this Book Gives You:: This titanic book opens up for you the entire rich landscape of all the substantive contents present in every religious instruction act, contents which are often neglected or ignored by the religious educator. In this way you can make your religious education activity more transformational and relevant in the lives of learners. Because this book is one of the perennial classics in religious education, it belongs in the core resource holdings of every serious religious educator.
Distinctiveness: Why this Book is Special: The breathtaking range of this monumental book alone makes it a very special book in the whole history of books on religious education. Additionally, this book is distinctive because it is the only book ever published which lays bare the whole panoply of subtantive contents so that religious educators can acquire the entire breadth of substantive content available to them in their teaching ministry. Unlike any other book in field of religious instruction it provides in-depth and illuminating treatments of such central but over overlooked contents as love, attitudes, values, emotions, process content as subtantive, the many varieties of nonverbal content--to mention just a very few.
Major Features: Major features of this spectacular volume are (1) a very helpful in-depth treatment of the all the molar substantive contents about every religious educator should be deeply aware, and (2) concrete linkages of subtantive content to teaching practice so that the religious educator will not only know the anatomy of these subtantive contents but also will know how to teach them.
Chapters
1.
Prolegomenon
2. Product Content
3. Process Content
4. Cognitive
Content
5. Affective Content
6. Verbal Content
7. Nonverbal
Content
8. Unconscious Content
9. Lifestyle Content
10. Toward a
Redirection
11. Epilogue to the Trilogy
Praise for this Book: There has been an outpouring of praise for this monumental book.
A review in THEOLOGY DIGEST says: "This book is a basic source for religious educators who seek to make the subtantive content of what they teach more comprehensively and fully religious."
A review in CHRISTIAN EDUCATION JOURNAL states that"this book is particularly important for religious educators as they search for their existence and their ways of educating. It moves very deeply into the nature of teaching and learning that are pervasively life-changingly Christian"
A review in ARCHIVES DES SCIENCES SOCIALES DES RELIGIONS (France) states that this book is "one of those volumes which really presents its readers with multiple horizons. This book is a veritable encyclopedia on the topic of teaching religion, and supplies ample documentation for the many points made in its pages."
Price and
Such:
814 pages List
Price: $29.95 ISBN 0-89135-050-0