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ISBN 10: 1-59752-527-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-527-5
Pages: 130
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 08/01/2006
Division: Pickwick Publications
Series: Princeton Theological Monograph Series
Category: Theology
"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology"
James Michael Lee's Social Science Religious Instruction
By Dr. Edward J. Newell

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Book Description
Does education have any relation to theology? How do the educator's worldview commitments speak to his or her practice of education? James Michael Lee brought a definite answer to these questions — a firm no to the relations question, and an advocacy for empirical findings over and against any speculative or theoretical positions in reply to the commitments
question. Lee claimed to have a universal, neutral metatheory for all religious education, a theory that would apply to all religious educators in any and every religion. But in proposing his theory he overlooked the way that empirical facts express worldviews. This book is a detective story, tracing commitments that lay underneath empirical “neutrality." In the process the reader will see avenues that unmistakably link education to theology. Education turns out to be a thoroughly worldview-conditioned process. This new work is essential reading for professors and students in
both religious and general education.
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