Self, Other & Community

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Taught by SFTS. Educational philosopher, Maxine Greene, speaks of the "incomplete self" to challenge modernity's notion of the autonomous self. The incomplete self exists within ongoing experience and within a vital matrix of interrelatedness with the world. Challenging individual introspection with a communal vision of transformation, the course contends for the inextricable link between self and social consciousness and considers how the "incomplete" self transforms through mutuality with others and practice of compassion. A generative focus of the seminar will be the necessary work by the church to articulate theologies of community and to live into-thereby, teach-ministries of reconciliation. Class meets daily, 1/14/2019-1/18/2019, from 9:00am to 5:00pm at SFTS.