"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology": James Michael Lee's Social Science Religious Instruction: 61 (Princeton Theological Monograph)

Does education have any relation to theology? How do the educators worldview commitments speak to his or her practice of education? James Michael Lee brought a definite answer to these questions---a firm no to the relations question and an advocacy for empirical findings over and against any speculative or theoretical positions in reply to the commitments question. Lee claimed to have a universal neutral metatheory for all religious education a theory that would apply to all religious educators in any and every religion. But in proposing his theory he overlooked the way that empirical facts express worldviews. This book is a detective story tracing commitments that lay underneath empirical neutrality. In the process the reader will see avenues that unmistakably link education to theology. Education turns out to be a thoroughly worldview-conditioned process. This new work is essential reading for professors and students in both religious and general education.