One recent volume that is important reading for people interested in this matter is Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith and Learning, edited by David I. Smith and James K. A. Smith*. The Foreword for this volume was written by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy C. Bass. This post provides a place to begin our consideration by offering some brief sections from that Foreword that will serve as a springboard for coming posts and discussions.
This book is intended for people who “believe that college classes can be communities of learning where knowledge of self, others, and the world is sought in response to God’s call and the world’s need . . . human beings become who we are in large part through embodied participation in shared activities sustained by traditioned communities and oriented toward specific goods . . . practices help to create social spaces that have a certain character, spaces graced by regard for human beings as embodied imaginative members of God’s beloved creation . . . Christian practices make not only students but also teachers vulnerable to unpredictable encounters with God and other.”
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