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1 Critical Religious Education Andrew Wright Professor of Religious and Theological Education Centre for Theology, Religions and Culture Department of Education and Professional Studies King’s College London

2 overview liberalism critical realism liberal theology
critically realistic theology liberal religious education critical religious education

3 philosophy: liberalism
dislocated self autonomous self objective facts subjective values freedom and tolerance

4 philosophy: critical realism
ontological realism epistemic relativism judgemental rationality abduction / retroduction / iteration experience / description / explanation stratified / emergent / value-laden attentive / reasonable / responsible relationality / truth / truthfulness

5 religion: liberal theology
theology & authority religion: objective cultural facts religion: subjective spiritual values freedom & tolerance naturalism / secular humanism religious fundamentalism [religious orthodoxy] religious liberalism spiritual experience / spiritual expression particular / universal / anti-realistic

6 religion: critical realism
the ultimate order-of-things (ontological realism) religious/secular pluralism (epistemic relativism) faith seeking understanding (judgemental rationality): modelling reality explaining reality flourishing in reality thinking, speaking & acting wisely in reality pursuing truth & living truthfully

7 liberal religious education
[confessional religious education = fundamentalism] ontological realism learning about religion: assimilating objective facts religion as a cultural reality (phenomenological / interpretative: Smart / Hull / Jackson) epistemic relativism learning from religion: constructing subjective values spiritual experiences (experiential / empathetic: Hay / Erricker) judgemental rationality [informed theological judgements / truth & truthfulness] freedom of belief tolerance of the beliefs of others

8 critical religious education
The cultivation of religious, spiritual and theological literacy in relation to ultimate truth and truthful living sub species aeternitatis ontological realism: ultimate reality epistemic relativism: diverse worldviews judgemental rationality: religious literacy

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