The Sunday School Movement: Studies in the Growth and Decline of Sunday Schools (Studies in Christian History and Thought) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556354924 ISBN 13: 9781556354922

Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Hard to find

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

Today's Sunday schools are a pale shadow of what they were in the past. Churches have found other ways of serving children and young people and carrying out adult education. From a historical point of view Sunday schools have immense significance. As late as the 1950s approximately half the children in Great Britain were associated with Sunday schools. In the nineteenth century Sunday schools were part of general educational provision. With National, British, and Ragged schools, Sunday schools represented the Christian philanthropic impulse to provide a basic education to the public at large and at low cost. The role of the churches in educational provision is again a topic of public interest and the time is right to reflect on some of the lessons of the past. A range of experts have been asked to assess different aspects of the history of the Sunday school movement: Clyde Binfield, Faith Bowers, John H. Y. Briggs, Grayson Ditchfield Hugh McLeod, Stephen Orchard, Jack Priestley, Geoff Robson, and Doreen Rosman. They provide a remarkable survey of many aspects of Sunday schools, from their origin to their reinvention, from teaching the catechism to promoting sport.

Biografía del autor:

Stephen Orchard is Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge and former Director of the Christian Education Movement. John H. Y. Briggs is Senior Research Fellow in Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1556354924
• ISBN 13: 9781556354922
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
• Herausgeber: Orchard Stephen