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Developing Approaches to Worship - Seeing Anew

Developing Approaches to Worship - Seeing Anew. Educating for Wisdom. The power of habit - formation and transformation. Alison Brown, Deputy Director of Education and Schools’ Adviser, Derby Diocese. A Deeply Christian Vision for the Common Good. Wisdom Hope Community Dignity.

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Developing Approaches to Worship - Seeing Anew

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  1. Developing Approaches to Worship - Seeing Anew Educating for Wisdom The power of habit - formation and transformation Alison Brown, Deputy Director of Education and Schools’ Adviser, Derby Diocese

  2. A Deeply Christian Vision for the Common Good • Wisdom • Hope • Community • Dignity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTL-0MBdyMU

  3. A Deeply Christian Vision for the Common Good • Wisdom • Hope • Community • Dignity

  4. Who am I? Why am I here? What do I desire? How then shall I live? Fullness of Life

  5. Fullness of Life ‘…we should host discussion, share good practice, and sponsor research in this area so that worship in schools promotes theological and religious literacy and liberates participants to an imagining of a different order of justice, mercy and hope.’ Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.16

  6. Institutions…are incubators of habituation that make us a certain kind of people • They involve habit forming through shared, communal practices which shape what we love - liturgies • Liturgies are rituals of ultimate concern which train our hearts and inculcate a particular vision the good life

  7. Wisdom All things and all people are intrinsically related to Jesus Christ, and that sets the horizon within which he is to be understood and followed. Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.5

  8. Wisdom We understand Jesus to be the Word of God, the self-expression and self-giving of God, who relates to the whole of creation. This sets the horizon for education that looks to him, seeking truth and wisdom in relation to all reality - areas of knowledge and know-how, religions, cultures, the sciences, the arts and crafts, economics, law, politics, and more. Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.13

  9. Wisdom ‘Christianity is not an intellectual system, a collection of dogmas, or a moralism. Christianity is instead an encounter, a love story; it is an event.’ Cardinal Ratzinger, 2004

  10. Wisdom ‘Wisdom is about ethics as well as cognition, values and purposes as well as facts, and above all tries to make sound judgements that do justice to the whole ‘ecology’ of life.’ Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.14

  11. ‘…introduced to examples of questioning, intelligent and wise faith.’ Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.12 Wisdom ‘Children can choose how to use the time in collective worship - they are not forced to be as they would be in a numeracy lesson - they have a certain degree of autonomy.’

  12. Seeing Anew

  13. Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, p.4 Church schools have a reputation for securing transformational outcomes for young people by combining academic rigour with a rounded approach to personal development, rooted in worship and other shared practise that characterise the life of their community.

  14. What if Learning and Seeing Anew • Seeing Anew • Choosing Engagement • Reshaping Practice

  15. Examples of Seeing Anew Worship Sheep and Shepherds

  16. http://derby.anglican.org/education/seeing-anew/

  17. Seeing Anew • Takes time • Requires support of school leaders • Requires some theological understanding

  18. Seeing Anew • In collective worship we can invite pupils to inhabit a way of life, be part of a community, with a constellation of practices that are helping ‘the Kingdom come’.

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