The Teacher as Prophet of the True God
Dewey’s Religious Faith and its Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11951549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eliyahu Rosenow (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 427-437 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9752.00066 |
| OpenAlex | W2020773503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Dewey declares that the teacher’s calling is to be ‘the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God’. This apparently religious declaration seems inconsistent with Dewey’s philosophical position. An examination of Dewey’s writings on religious issues reveals that his religious faith is a secular belief in democratic ideals, and that his teacher’s alleged religious mission is in fact a worldly one. This article claims that Dewey’s religious conception is a pragmatic conception designed to answer the social needs of American society in the 1930s, and that it presents no adequate solution to the problems of our contemporary world
Declaration · Democracy · Epistemology · Faith · Pedagogy · Political science · Religious belief · Religious controversies · Religious education · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2009 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |