Habits of Hope: Educational Practices for a Weary World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In the world of education, disorientation and uncertainty has been increasing for several decades, with the Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbating preexisting challenges. Christians called to academic vocations need authentic hope to sustain them in their work—and they need to be able to share that hope with a weary world.
- integration
- conversation
- diversity
- reading
- writing
- teaching
Contributors include Hans Boersma; Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu; Kevin G. Grove, CSC; Cherie Harder; Jon S. Kulaga; Philip Graham Ryken; David I. Smith; and Jessica Hooten Wilson.
Christian hope, these thinkers are convinced, has two fundamental characteristics: it’s tied inextricably to the world to come, inaugurated by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; and it’s active in its very nature. Habits of Hope combines theology and practical application to help educators find hope and infuse it throughout every area of their work.
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- Explores a Christian understanding of hope and how it applies to the work of people in academia.
- Focuses on six key educational practices.
- Combines theology and practical application to help educators find hope and infuse it.
- Foreword
- Introduction: An Expectation of the World to Come
- 1. The Cross Our Hope: The Hope of Education
- 2. Past, Present, and Future: Integration as a Hopeful Educational Practice
- 3. The Way of Words: Conversation as a Hopeful Educational Practice
- 4. Inclusive Excellence: Diversity as a Hopeful Educational Practice
- 5. Reading for Deification: Maximus the Confessor’s Hopeful Pedagogy
- 6. Prophets and Poets at the Apocalypse: Writing as a Hopeful Educational Practice
- 7. “Arduous and Difficult to Obtain”: Teaching as a Hopeful Educational Practice
- Conclusion: The Habitat of Hope
- Contributors
- Index
Habits of Hope offers a transformative road map for students and teachers navigating today's challenges. The essays in this book present a vision of education oriented toward the end of communion with God. When interpreted through the lens of Christians hope, the practices of reading, writing, and conversation become habits that cultivate holiness. A great, thought-provoking, and inspiring read for such a time as this.
—Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric, Irene and William McCutcheon Professor of Reconciliation and Theology and dean of the Divinity School at Duke University
During this cultural moment where discord and division dominate the contemporary landscape, it is essential that educators at all levels provide learning experiences that cultivate the virtue of hope in the lives of our students. By drawing on the wisdom of a diverse group of authors, this volume offers judicious insights into a variety of educational practices designed to resist fear and despair and nurture human flourishing. I encourage faculty, administrators, and church educators to engage with this timely text.
—Kim S. Phipps, president of Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
In a time of cultural collapse, this collection inspires hope as faithful obedience but also an antidote for a weary age. This hope is not a fleeting wish, but a purposeful, spiritual assurance that can be cultivated in practices for teaching, writing, learning, conversation, and considering the other. In these inspiring habits of hope, we see the vital contribution Christian education might offer the world.
—Michael D. Hammond, president of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts
- Title: Habits of Hope: Educational Practices for a Weary World
- Authors: Jerry Pattengale, Christopher J. Devers, Todd C. Ream
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 148
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Education › Religious aspects--Christianity; Church and education; Hope › Religious aspects--Christianity; Education › Philosophy; Christian education › United States
- ISBNs: 9781514010716, 9781514010693, 9781514010709, 1514010712, 1514010690, 1514010704
- Resource ID: LLS:HBTSHPDCWRYWRLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-20T20:57:54Z