David Attfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Attfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Attfield |
| SIGNATURE | ATTFIELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College Durham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Hull and the money culture
John Hull's recent educational writings have included several on what he calls the ‘money culture’. This is analysed and criticised in this article. Hull offers a Marxist and a neo‐Marxist account of the role of money in western societies utilising the labour theory of value, false consciousness and the materialist interpretation of history. It is contended here that the labour theory of value is fallacious and that false consciousness therefore …
Fowler's Faith Development Christian Perspectives on Faith Development
The work of James W. Fowler on faith development has become well known in the USA and in British theological and religious education circles in the last 15 years, even if this research has yet to make much impact on general education or any on philosophy of education. Now Drs Astley and Francis have produced a large, one volume collection of papers by Fowler, his associates and his critics. His theory and discussion of it, evaluation and applicat…
The Morality of Sins
Once upon a time, at an examination for Fellowships at All Souls, there was a three-hour essay paper. When the eager candidates turned over their question-papers, on the reverse they found a blank expanse of whiteness with one little word in the centre for them to write about: the word was ‘SIN’
Is Religious Education Possible? A reply to Roger Marples
The Argument from Religious Experience
The purpose of this article is to make yet another attempt to defend and restate as convincingly as possible the argument for God's existence based on religious experience. In its simplest form the argument is an inference from the fact that men experience God to the conclusion that God exists. Experience is always experience of something , it is alleged, and if that something is of the kind to have independent, objective existence and if a given…
The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom’
The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom’
The Argument from Religious Experience
The purpose of this article is to make yet another attempt to defend and restate as convincingly as possible the argument for God's existence based on religious experience. In its simplest form the argument is an inference from the fact that men experience God to the conclusion that God exists. Experience is always experience of something , it is alleged, and if that something is of the kind to have independent, objective existence and if a given…
Is Religious Education Possible? A reply to Roger Marples
The Morality of Sins
Once upon a time, at an examination for Fellowships at All Souls, there was a three-hour essay paper. When the eager candidates turned over their question-papers, on the reverse they found a blank expanse of whiteness with one little word in the centre for them to write about: the word was ‘SIN’
Fowler's Faith Development Christian Perspectives on Faith Development
The work of James W. Fowler on faith development has become well known in the USA and in British theological and religious education circles in the last 15 years, even if this research has yet to make much impact on general education or any on philosophy of education. Now Drs Astley and Francis have produced a large, one volume collection of papers by Fowler, his associates and his critics. His theory and discussion of it, evaluation and applicat…
John Hull and the money culture
John Hull's recent educational writings have included several on what he calls the ‘money culture’. This is analysed and criticised in this article. Hull offers a Marxist and a neo‐Marxist account of the role of money in western societies utilising the labour theory of value, false consciousness and the materialist interpretation of history. It is contended here that the labour theory of value is fallacious and that false consciousness therefore …
Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious Education and Schools (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works)