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{"title":"The Exodus in the Bible's Teaching and Our Teaching of the Bible: Helping to Reconcile Faith and Critical Study of the Bible Through Threshold Concept Theory","authors":"Rachelle Gilmour","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1213951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1213951","url":null,"abstract":"For students coming from a religious background to Biblical Studies, it can sometimes be difficult to reconcile faith and critical study of the Hebrew Bible, struggling with the concepts of multiple voices within the text, and multiple methods of interpretation in scholarship. This article will explore the use of the Exodus event as a Threshold Concept in the Bible's teaching, and propose that it can be used as a helpful model for students encountering critical study of the Bible. It will be shown that the Exodus event has differing accounts and multiple interpretations throughout the Bible, and that these function according to the characteristics of a Threshold Concept, by being transformative, integrative, troublesome and affective [Meyer, Jan H. F., and Ray L. Land. 2006a. ‘Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: An Introduction’. In Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts an Troublesome Knowledge, edited by Jan Meyer and Ray Land, 3-18. London: Routledge]. This analysis of a Threshold Concept within the Bible can be used as a model in the classroom for the transformative nature of story, providing a framework for contemporary interpretation of the Biblical texts.","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129207310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Dissolving Boundaries’ – An Analysis of Threshold Concepts Within Disability Theology","authors":"Zachariah P. Duke, P. Mudge","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1211331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1211331","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on an analysis of threshold concepts (TCs) within disability theology. It explores a range of ideas linked to TCs and the experience of people living with a disability (people LWD). The world in which Christian parishioners encounter people LWD (the focus of this article), could be described as a ‘liquid world’ which is fuzzy, uncertain, unstable and marked by ‘dissolving boundaries’ (Barnett, R. 2012. “The Coming of the Ecological Learner.” In Transitions and Transformations in Learning and Education, edited by P. Tynjälä, M.-L. Stenström and M. Saarnivaara, 9–20. Dordrecht, NL: Springer) The authors argue that, despite such boundaries, or perhaps because of them, certain thresholds need to be crossed by members of faith communities in order for a person LWD to feel as if he/she genuinely belongs to a community. Nevertheless it is acknowledged that some people involved might be both people LWD and parishioners. The three interrelated thresholds examined within this article are — empowerment, hospitality and neighbourliness. The article links these thresholds with TC theory, and also addresses two related topics — a definition of disability within the discipline of theology, and Jesus as the model for threshold crossing within the Christian tradition. Reflections on TCs in this article are deliberately grounded in the most recent collection of TC theory from Land, R., J. H. F. Meyer and M. T. Flanagan, editors. (2016. Threshold Concepts in Practice. Rotterdam, NL: Sense). Finally, the article considers some relevant, practical responses which, it is argued, members of Christian faith communities ought to consider, so that people LWD feel that they genuinely belong to that particular community. It concludes with a summary of key insights and some possible future research directions.","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122946656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Threshold of Conscience: A Radical Challenge for Education in Theological Ethics … and Beyond","authors":"D. Fleming","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1213950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1213950","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I propose that the phenomenon of conscience, as understood in Catholic theological ethics, functions as a threshold concept within that discipline. As such, it shares the characteristics identified by Meyer and Land [2006a. “Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: An Introduction.” In Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge, edited by J. Meyer and R. Land, 3–18. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis] as pertaining to threshold concepts, and thereby presents substantial challenges for education within theological ethics. The article begins by analysing conscience as a threshold concept. It then puts forward a teaching intervention which is informed by threshold concepts theory and other relevant pedagogical research.","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121416938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Tell Me the Landscapes in Which You Live and I Will Tell You Who You Are’ – Online Theology Students Crossing Thresholds in Religious Education and Spirituality Against an Australian Desert Context","authors":"P. Mudge","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1211329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1211329","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes that in the crossing of learning thresholds, it is possible to identify a number of significant intersections between three key areas – (1) stories about teaching challenges provided by an initial survey of 60 selected online adults studying religious education (RE), spirituality and theology; (2) the crossing of the Australian bush, frontier, or desert landscape; and (3) threshold concept (TC) theory. This survey of online teacher views revealed five specific teacher learning challenges that could be compared with five selected features of the Australian bush or desert landscape. Narratives of teacher learning challenges were extracted from a range of online discussion scripts, while certain features of the Australian landscape emerged from a later, unplanned literature analysis of that topic. This article examines two of these thematic clusters, related to liminality and to ‘stretching’ of teachers, in relation to desert literature and TC theory. The article closes with a series of conclusions and discussion points emerging from the research.","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126334158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Note","authors":"John P. Falcone","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1246807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1246807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127639001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World","authors":"Katja Stuerzenhofecker","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1158500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1158500","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130145949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Encyclopedia of Christian Education, 3 Volumes","authors":"A. Wright","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1158504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1158504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124458543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forming a Community of Faith: A Guide to Success in Adult Faith Formation Today","authors":"John P. Falcone","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1158505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1158505","url":null,"abstract":"Jane Regan of Boston College, USA, has for many years offered catechists a vision of Christian education that encompasses the whole parish: a vision that can transform the way they understand faith formation and enhance the way they do their jobs. In Forming a Community of Faith she offers a new guide to parish-based adult faith formation that Roman Catholics will value, and that Christian educators from other traditions may mine for insights and practical guidance. Targeted to lay and ordained parish leaders, the book is user-friendly and well designed for group reading and structured discussion. It includes helpful formatting (headings and diagrams); “Questions for Reflection and Conversation” at the end of each major section to help readers link content with their own experience; and summaries of key points to “Keep in Mind” at the end of each chapter. Almost every page contains at least one pithy phrase or sentence that can be unpacked to spur rich discussions on adult faith, parish education, and Christian practice in secular life. Footnotes point to key scholarship and to online resources of great practical use. The book spans five easily digestible chapters. Chapter one frames adult faith formation around two main themes. These are “the challenge to teach as Jesus did”, i.e., fostering gospel living and Christian mission for peace and justice; and “the reality of post-modernity”, i.e., taking seriously pluralism, individual stories, and the suspicion of largescale institutions that shapes many churchgoers’ sensibilities today. Chapter two is a close reading of Roman Catholic church documents. It fleshes out the links between “evangelization” and “catechesis”, between the call to live lives of Christian discipleship (at home, at work, and in the parish) and the training that church educators are called to provide. Here Regan urges parish educators to shift their “primary question” from “What are the children learning (and how can the grownups be helpful)?” to “What do adults need to be talking about in order to recognize and to be signs of God’s presence to their families and to the world?” (p. 36). Chapter three unpacks the form and content of mature, adult Christian faith. Adult faith is “living, explicit, and fruitful;” it is Jesus-centered; it flourishes in Christian community; it grows and adapts, so it needs to be nurtured; it learns from conversation, especially conversations that focus on Scripture, on church teaching, and on the lives and viewpoints of other people; it prepares believers to be priestly, prophetic, and political in their mission as disciples in the world. Chapter four is a tour de force on how to structure fruitful conversations and how to ask fruitful questions with adults. Are the conversations in our educational programs “sustained, engaged, and critical”? Do our questions, by their shape and their underlying assumptions, open up conversations or shut them down? Do we allot at least as much time for conversation ","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125423551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People","authors":"Angus Ritchie","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1158507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1158507","url":null,"abstract":"Community organizing offers Christians a new way of engaging in the public square. When the church engages in that space there is always a prima facie tension to be negotiated—between holding to th...","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123139405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bonhoeffer's Seminary Vision: A Case for Costly Discipleship and Life Together","authors":"Benjamin D. Espinoza","doi":"10.1080/17407141.2016.1158503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17407141.2016.1158503","url":null,"abstract":"While the modern church remembers Dietrich Bonhoeffer for his theological prowess, leadership in the Confessing Church, and co-conspiring to assassinate Hitler, few remember him as a theological ed...","PeriodicalId":224329,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adult Theological Education","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}