Abstracts for Session 2B

"Predicaments and Pedagogy: Liturgical and Adaptable Practices for a Wesleyan/Holiness Tradition," Luke Goble (Warner Pacific College)

Abstract
Attempts to reconnect the role of our Wesleyan/Holiness theological tradition to the life of our institution have guided us to a conception of theology as practice, and a discussion of the ways in which certain practices might be implemented in our classrooms.  In this paper, I lay out a dynamic model for thinking about the pedagogical implications of our theological tradition.  In discussing these implications, I compare the function of traditional liturgical practices and adaptable practices in shaping students with respect to tradition and in response to our socio-historical situation.                             

"Retrieving the Significance of Practice: Overcoming Ourselves," Terry Baker (Warner Pacific College)

Abstract
Our desire for a sense of wholeness in an increasingly fragmented and
frenetic social existence extends to a desire to be rightly related,
abundantly so, to the activities of learning and the institutions that
house these activities. Christian practices show how our hunger for
wholeness is an inescapable part of what it means to be human. We
practice (carry out and work at) community and hospitality, as ways of
making meaning in the image of God our Creator. The recent work of
Robert Kegan on the relational matrix of human meaning-making helps us
to see the contemporary pedagogical capacity of these practices.
Ancient practices reengaged as antecedent to forms of consciousness
demanded by our postmodern life and learning.

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