“Education for Dialogue: Setting an Agenda for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies in Nigerian Seminaries”
(2021) Testimony of Faith: A Centenary of Catholicism in Ogoja — ISBN: [978-978-992-813-2], p. 769-779, published
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- Amongst other recommendations, Education for Peace tasks ‘Christian educational institutions’ (CEI) to “develop educational resources that focus not only on the promotion of knowledge, attitudes, and values essential for peacemaking but also on developing skills along with good will to translate them into concrete action and behavioural practice.” The test ground for such ‘concrete action and behavioural practice’ remains the CEIs at various levels. If tolerance, openness and peaceful co-existence with the other, which allow the ‘other’ to be, is lacking in the institutions, then there is need for grave concern. Furthermore, the CEIs are admonished to “identify potential partners with whom creative, interactive, learner-centered educational tools can be developed for various levels.” What this means is that the School of Humanities in tertiary CEIs ought to take up this ecumenical task from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Outcomes of such studies are to be applied not only in the tertiary CEIs but also at the other levels, primary, secondary, churches and even families. The effects on the larger society would in due time manifest even in the social and political life of the people.
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Okpaleke, I. P. (2021). “Education for Dialogue: Setting an Agenda for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies in Nigerian Seminaries”. In Kekong Bisong (ed.), Testimony of Faith: A Centenary of Catholicism in Ogoja (p. p. 769-779). Kekong Bisong.