Catholic Social Learning: Educating the Faith That Does Justice
Roger Bergman, "Catholic Social Learning: Educating the Faith That Does Justice"
English | ISBN: 0823233286 | 2011 | 228 pages | PDF | 1388 KB
English | ISBN: 0823233286 | 2011 | 228 pages | PDF | 1388 KB
The canon for Catholic social teaching spreads to six hundred pages,yet fewer than two pages are devoted to Catholic social learning or pedagogy. In this long-needed book, Roger Bergman begins to correct that gross imbalance. He asks: How do we educate (“lead out”) the faith that does justice? How is commitment to social justice provoked and sustained over a lifetime? To address these questions, Bergman weaves what he has learned from thirty years as a faith-that-does-justice educator with the best of current scholarship and historical authorities. He reflects on personal experience; the experience of Church leaders, lay activists, and university students; and the few words the tradition itself has to say about a pedagogy for justice.
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