FUNDAMENTALISM AS A CHALLENGE FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION |
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| Authors: | Heinz Streib |
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| Institution: | Claremont School of Theology , |
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| Abstract: | “. . . human experience is shaped, molded, and in a sense constituted by cultural and linguistic forms. There are numberless thoughts we cannot think, sentiments we cannot have, and realities we cannot perceive unless we learn to use the appropriate symbol systems ... to become religious involves becoming skilled in the language, the symbol system of a given religion.” — George Lindbeck 1 1George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1984), 34. “My child is not learning anything. All they do in there is play.” — disgruntled parent after observing a preschool church school class. |
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