Education in the Image of God Susanne Johnson attended a conference with the theme “Mid-Career Burnout.” The question was why so many living in abundance are and have great achievement so discontent? Its verses were boredom, stress, emptiness, exhaustion, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. The writer asks the questions of why is the good life which human have achieved in the twentieth century, so bad that only news of world catastrophes, assassination, plane crashes, mass murders, can divert one of sadness of the ordinary morning (Seymour et al 124).
According to Dorothee Soelle, when everything in life is about profit (bread), it can only earn us burnout resulting in death. Bread alone leave to death in every area of our life. When we live by bread alone, we die by bread alone. It seems the more we produce, consume, and buy the hungrier we are. We have all things in abundance, but deep down inside we are still hungry and very needy (Seymour et al 125).
The alienation the Bible calls death is taught and learned, say Soelle. It is learned in society and in our culture. It is reinforced and destructed –for instance, through competitive, or achievement addiction, or workaholic. Consumerism –is described as one big matter of buying and selling, everything is turned into purchasable commodity …show more content…
To believe in God is to end our alliance with death (Seymour et al 125). Christian Education has enhanced Human Development for several years. For several decades, religious education has relied-over relied upon developmental psychology as a way to articulate the doctrine of sanctification and its corresponding effects upon the individual throughout the human cycle. In addition to the humanistic theories, education have use Erick Erikson’s eight psychosocial stages to understand the human journey to wholeness and maturity
According to Dorothee Soelle, when everything in life is about profit (bread), it can only earn us burnout resulting in death. Bread alone leave to death in every area of our life. When we live by bread alone, we die by bread alone. It seems the more we produce, consume, and buy the hungrier we are. We have all things in abundance, but deep down inside we are still hungry and very needy (Seymour et al 125).
The alienation the Bible calls death is taught and learned, say Soelle. It is learned in society and in our culture. It is reinforced and destructed –for instance, through competitive, or achievement addiction, or workaholic. Consumerism –is described as one big matter of buying and selling, everything is turned into purchasable commodity …show more content…
To believe in God is to end our alliance with death (Seymour et al 125). Christian Education has enhanced Human Development for several years. For several decades, religious education has relied-over relied upon developmental psychology as a way to articulate the doctrine of sanctification and its corresponding effects upon the individual throughout the human cycle. In addition to the humanistic theories, education have use Erick Erikson’s eight psychosocial stages to understand the human journey to wholeness and maturity