Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education

Abstract

This article advocates that education ought to be movement toward a unity of conflicting but complementary forces in the life of the congregation/parish. This paradox is captured best in the two divergent forms of imagination, namely, the sacramental and prophetic, both of which are grounded and united in their commitment to seeing ultimate reality. Church education in and for sacramental and prophetic practices offers the possibility of revitalizing church life from within and, in turn, offers an outward response to repair our social and public world.

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Kieran Scott

Kieran Scott is Associate Professor of Religious Education at Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education in New York. E-mail: [email protected]