Learning to Give (eBook)

As Part of Religious Education

Ken Russell, Joan Tooke (Autoren)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
183 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-3916-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Learning to Give as Part of Religious Education attempts to answer the question: what is actually to go on in a lesson about 'life' or 'reality'? It takes as its starting point a sure ground of adolescent concern: the compassion for human suffering which is normally awakened and keenly felt in the middle teens. It then proceeds to inform this compassion: it explores the depth and shape of the need; it amasses the facts of the situation; it illustrates the human meaning of it, with quotation from biography and poetry and personal documents; it describes the efforts made, in active compassion, to relieve the need; and it makes suggestions of ways in which the young can share in the work of relief. Finally, it marches on to biblical and other statements about the human situation that set these specific agonizing points of suffering against the vast problem of evil, viewed in the light of a belief in a God who cares, thus lifting the human adventure from its sublunar situation on to a cosmic level.

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Learning to Give as Part of Religious Education attempts to answer the question: what is actually to go on in a lesson about "e;life"e; or "e;reality"e;? It takes as its starting point a sure ground of adolescent concern: the compassion for human suffering which is normally awakened and keenly felt in the middle teens. It then proceeds to inform this compassion: it explores the depth and shape of the need; it amasses the facts of the situation; it illustrates the human meaning of it, with quotation from biography and poetry and personal documents; it describes the efforts made, in active compassion, to relieve the need; and it makes suggestions of ways in which the young can share in the work of relief. Finally, it marches on to biblical and other statements about the human situation that set these specific agonizing points of suffering against the vast problem of evil, viewed in the light of a belief in a God who cares, thus lifting the human adventure from its sublunar situation on to a cosmic level.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Learning to Give 
4 
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Table of Contents 8
Acknowledgements 10
Foreword 12
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 14
BIBLIOGRAPHY 22
CHAPTER 2. THEMES INTEGRATED WITH BIBLICAL MATERIAL 23
Blindness 24
Children 36
Leprosy 46
Refugees 58
CHAPTER 3. ORGANISATIONS FURTHERING THE WORK OF WELL-KNOWN CHRISTIANS 78
The Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights 82
Dr. Barnardo's Homes 88
The Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick 96
The Danilo Dolci Trust 111
The Grenfell Associations 117
CHAPTER 4. NEEDS TO BE MET 127
Addiction to Narcotics 129
Alcoholics Anonymous 138
Amnesty International 153
The Samaritans 158
CHAPTER 5. STATUTORY VERSUS VOLUNTARY GIVING 162
BIBLIOGRAPHY 175
APPENDIX: A Comprehensive List of Organisations and their Addresses, Followed by Suggestions for Themes 176
ORGANISATIONS 176
THEMES 194

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-3916-6 / 1483139166
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-3916-6 / 9781483139166