Religious faith in education: enemy or asset?

In this article I hope to cast some light on the relationship between religious faith and education by a preliminary mapping of the field. There are three parts to the article. First, I lay out the assumptions from which the rest of the article builds. Second, I seek to identify possible links between religion and education. As a sub-set of this, I explore a range of ways that theology might relate to education. Third, as a step towards a more healthy relationship between education and religious faith, I offer reasons why the church needs the academy and the academy needs the church. In the light of a convergence of the concerns that I show are shared by religious believers and educators, it is suggested that religious faith in the context of education should be considered an asset rather than an enemy

The boundaries of conversation: A response to Dallmayr

This essay dissents from the argument that Fred Dallmayr makes in his article in the current issue. While accepting the centrality of the topics which he raises and accepting also that Oakeshott's work provides an important stimulus to our rethinking of such topics, the essay takes issue with three areas of Dallmayr's discussion. The first challenges his interpretation of Oakeshott's metaphor of conversation; while the second challenges the substantive points developed from that interpretation. The third explores the implications of Dallmayr's argument, which, it might be said, is in Oakeshott's terms a rather 'practical' argument, that might potentially become problematic given Dallmayr's wish to adopt the notion of conversation.</p