A Study on Conversion and Nurture in Christian Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article is that a study on conversion and nurture in Christian education. We can present three views on the relationship between conversion and nurturing. The first view stresses conversion, while the second emphasizes nurturing. The third view argues for the interrelatedness of conversion and nurturing.
The writer will grope out faith-education to have integrative sight in extreme relationship which is not compromising and obscurely supplementary relationship or unification between two theories, the relationship of conversion and nurture, and nurturing process of faith in faith community centering around the theory of John H. Westerhoff III.
This paper focuses and discusses three parts as center: Faith-Education, The Relationship between conversion and nurturing, and The process of nurturing faith in the community. The writer accept the theory of John H. Westerhoff Ⅲ.
In light of the model proposed by Westerhoff, faith-education does not come through a particular set of education program for a particular age group. In order for people to expand from one stage of faith to another, one should consider the community's environment and interaction among its members whether they fit into the stage of faith. In addition, it is notable that the community's rites of transition can encourage the development in one's faith. In this respect, faith- nurturing in community requires a new phase of understanding in its role and function as one considers the long process of pilgrimage in one's faith journey.

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