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Maritain, Religion, and Education

A Theocentric Humanism Approach

by Luz M. Ibarra (Author)
©2013 Monographs IX, 211 Pages
Series: American University Studies , Volume 326

Summary

Maritain, Religion, and Education: A Theocentric Humanism Approach offers a comprehensive study of Jacques Maritain’s philosophy of education as applied to the specific field of religious education. This book demonstrates that his philosophy is still relevant and that the philosophical-religious idea of the human person is an indispensable point of departure for any educational theory, particularly in the field of religious education. Maritain’s theocentric humanism stresses not only the relation of God and humanity but that of humanity and the world. His thinking fosters unity – by considering the human person as unity – with religious education becoming a liberating process that conforms to the goal of religious education: to deliver persons from all obstacles to union with God by fostering the spiritual life of religious educators and society alike.

Details

Pages
IX, 211
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9781453909935
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433121395
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0993-5
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (May)
Keywords
philosophy God unity
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2013. X, 211 pp.

Biographical notes

Luz M. Ibarra (Author)

Luz M. Ibarra, born in Mexico City, obtained her PhD in philosophy at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University, New York. She has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and is the author of several books and articles in the field of education. Most recently, she wrote a chapter on Jacques Maritain in Educators in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (John Elias and Lucinda Nolan, eds., 2009).

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