"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology": James Michael Lee's Social Science Religious Instruction

by Edward J. Newell

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications

, 2006

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title : "Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology": James Michael Lee's Social Science Religious Instruction
• Author: Newell, Edward J.
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN: 9781498276511

About the Author

Edward J. Newell is Assistant Professor of Education at Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He received his Ed.D. from Columbia University.