scholarly journals The “Standard Bible Dictionary”

1909 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-505
Author(s):  
G. F. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Sunday School ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Bible

This dictionary has been prepared because Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible and the Encyclopaedia Biblica have been found too “discursive” for handy use. It is intended for educated ministers, who “have not always the leisure to enter into a discursive presentation of critical research”; for Sunday-school teachers and workers; and for intelligent laymen interested in Bible study. To serve such readers, the dictionary should be accurate but not technical; “it should be up to the day in its information, but not so discursive as to burden its pages with the pedantry of undigested facts.”

Lakeside at Chautauqua's Holy Land

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (92) ◽  
pp. 29-53
Author(s):  
Burke O. Long
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Chautauqua Institution

The Chautauqua Institution, founded in 1874 to train American Sunday school teachers, quickly developed programs aimed at encouraging a citizenry refined by Anglo-European, classical high culture and governed by Bible-centered Christian convictions. Avid Bible study, a walk-through model of biblical Palestine, smaller scale replicas of Jerusalem and the biblical Tabernacle, lectures and community rituals, costumed ‘Orientals’ enacting scenes of biblical life—these activities were central to Chautauqua's early identity. This essay explores how Chautauqua's realization of holy land in America embodied particular notions of the Bible, religious experience, cultural values, and ideologies of religion and national selfhood.

scholarly journals Fungsi Keluarga dalam Persepektif Alkitab sebagai Basis Pendidikan Agama Kristen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Andreas Sese Sunarko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Family ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

The family is an institution of God Himself (Genesis 2:18-25) aside from the church (Matthew 16:18) obtaining a glorious mandate through God's family to want the birth of Divine offspring (Malachi 2:15), which is a God-fearing and living in its prescribed streets. To achieve the above goal, a Christian Religious  Education of faith became something very important. But unfortunately there are Christian families who are unaware of this and are shifting this glorious mandate to the church through sunday school teachers or transferring it to school (through Christian religious teachers). The writer assesses this distraction on the one hand as a parent's misunderstanding of the mandate or on the other hand because of the parents' inability to handle it. The method the writer uses is a descriptive qualitative with a library approach. The writer tapped relevant resources from the bible, books and journals. Starting with a general understanding and juridis about the family, the Biblical basis of the family and its calling, the family's responsibility for Christian Religious Education and the danger of displacing the function of Christisn Religious Education on the third hand and the writer will eventually conclude that it is important to restore the family's function as a base of Christian Religious Education as well as to accord with scriptural values to be so effective in reaching the goal of bearing Divine offspring.

scholarly journals Memorizing Bible Verses with the Association Method of Quantum Learning in Sunday School

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Surja Permana ◽  
D.R. Juanda ◽  
Frederich Oscar Lontoh ◽  
Handoko Noertjandranata ◽  
Sjanette Eveline
Keyword(s):  
Sunday School ◽  
Core Material ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Class ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Quantum Learning ◽  
Association Method ◽  
The Church

In the world of teaching, it takes a variety of creativity, so that students benefit from the learning process. The same thing happened in the Sunday School class held by the church. The core material is certainly from the Bible. This includes memorizing Bible verses from certain parts. Students are required to memorize the verses. Many face failure in the memorization process. They have difficulty remembering the verses. However, there is still an interesting method to make it easier for children to memorize Bible verses, namely by association methods found in quantum learning. The problem is whether the Sunday school teachers understood this association method? With descriptive research methods have found a solution that in the process of memorizing with this association method, can increase the number of verses memorized. This can be shown from the results of evaluations that have been carried out, there is an increase in the number of memorized verses that can be memorized by Sunday school students, which increases to 20 words or about 4%.

scholarly journals The Bible, faith formation and a virus – Exploring the influence of a pandemic on faith formation content and practices for children and teenagers

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyzette Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has posed different kinds of challenges to society and churches over the past months. With various ‘normal ministry practices’ not permitted under lockdown regulations, as well as people starting to fear the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a sense of crisis can easily prevail. However, a small congregation in Bloemfontein, South Africa, responded by engaging their children and teenagers through reflection, content and outreach. Various methods, including virtual and face to face, were utilised to minister to and with children and teenagers. This response can now be analysed to find answers to the following questions: How did the pandemic influence specific methods chosen for faith formation? What made it different from ‘ministry as usual’? What role did the Bible play in the methods and content used? Within the framework of the qualitative research, reflective practice from a hermeneutic perspective was utilised as theoretical approach to analyse the response of the pastors and Sunday school teachers. Reflection occurs on three levels, namely, technical (efficiency and effectiveness), practical (goals and consequences) and critical (analysis of one’s practice within wider contexts). A literature study was also conducted on the influence of a pandemic on faith formation. Recommendations were made regarding different ways to engage with children and teenagers and involving them in ministry.Contribution: This research contributes to knowledge as to how and why pastors and congregations react the way they do in a pandemic and how this impacts upon faith formation among children and youth in the faith community.

Cultivating Intimacy

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bielo
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Relational Spirituality ◽  
Restoration Movement ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Study Experience ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
American Evangelicalism

In this article I contribute to the sociology and anthropology of American Evangelicalism by examining the discourse of group Bible study. Every week millions of Christians in the U.S. meet for group study, and in doing so, actively negotiate the categories of meaning central to their faith. Yet, this crucial practice has received scant attention from scholars. This study is grounded in theories of social practice and symbolic interaction, where cultural life is understood through its vital institutions, and institutions are treated as inter-subjective accomplishments. I employ the concept of ‘interactive frames’ to define how Evangelicals understand the Bible study experience. Ultimately, I argue that the predominant interactive frame for Evangelicals is that of cultivating intimacy, which directly reflects the type of personalized, relational spirituality characteristic of their faith. This, in turn, has serious consequences for how Bible reading and interpretation are performed in groups. I use a case study approach, providing close ethnographic analyses of a mixed-gender group from a Restoration Movement congregation.

The Good Sower: A Novel Approach to Teaching Sunday School

2021 ◽  
pp. 073989132199312
Author(s):  
Lisa Marie Anderson-Umana
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Brain

The problems related to Sunday school students not making the connection between Scripture and daily life and a superficial teaching of the Bible compelled the author to create a novel approach to teaching Sunday school called the “Good Sower.” The imagery of a “Good Sower” is used to teach volunteers how to teach the Bible. Based on solid research regarding how the brain learns, it serves as an overlay in conjunction with published curriculum.

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