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Spirituality and Education: two millennia of thought and practice

Christian theology and philosophy have, directly and indirectly, considered the spiritual life of children for 2000 years. These three publications, each in their own style, scan and mine this rich and varied heritage as a way of thinking towards the future. Arthur Holmes, in the shortest text here, provides six chapters that give a cameo of selected historical situations. We grapple with the thinking of Augustine and then watch the emergence of monastery and cathedral schools that lead eventually to the formation of universities. We watch the Reformation and see and the beginnings of the modem era in the work of Francis Bacon. We listen to the