Education for Peoplehood: Essays on the Teaching Ministry of the Church
Published: November 17, 2021
This volume brings together a wide range of contributions by Ross T. Bender, dean and professor of Christian education at Associated (now Anabaptist) Mennonite Biblical Seminary from 1962 to 1979. These writings reflect his fundamental conviction that God is deeply interested and involved in forming us as people of God, and that through the church’s teaching ministry we collaborate in the process of learning, growth, formation, and transformation.
Table of contents:
Foreword (Daniel Schipani)
Part I—Nurture and Instruction: Could Any Work Be More Important?
Nurture
The Family
The Teacher
Part II—Congregational Education
Teaching the Bible in the Congregation
The Sunday School
The Relevance of Some Aspects of Piaget’s Theory for the Teaching Ministry of the Church
Part III—Educational Theory: The Aims of Education
On Being and Becoming a Person
Conversion in Religious Development
Anabaptist Education
Indoctrination
Part IV—Theological Education: Seminary and Congregation
Theological Education in the Free Church Tradition
Christian Education in Theological Education
The Meaning to the Seminaries of the Changing International Situation
Ross T. Bender
Text Reader 8
ISBN: 0-936273-25-9
Elkhart, IN:
Institute of Mennonite Studies
1997 • $15.00 • 245 pages