Christian Nurture and the New Cosmology

Abstract

Christian Religious Education recognizes the crisis in perception caused by eroding cosmologies and engages persons in the reformulating of Christian stories that negate a limiting materialism perpetuating consumerism destructive to life. A course is developed for theological students in which they may become aware of cosmology and its New Story, discern how it may be intentionally incorporated into the education of faith communities, use tools for creating curriculum, and generate methodologies for transformative learning. The course embodies the implications of current cosmology activating a partnership of learning through embodied knowing, conceptual imaging, visceral experience, and somatic learning.

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¹Elizabeth Box Price, Ed.D. is the recipient of a Course Programs Award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, for her course, “Christian Nurture and the New Cosmology.” As faculty in theological education, Dr. Price also received several grants from the Association of Theological Schools and from the Templeton Foundation to support her engagement in the conversation between science and religion and to explore natural science and ecological education for clergy and persons of faith. She has studied in residence at the Earth Literacy Program of Genesis Farm, Blairstown, New Jersey, and in residence at the Whidbey Institute, Whidbey Island, Washington.