The Spiritual Guidance of Children: Montessori, Godly Play, and the Future

by Jerome W. Berryman

Overview

This book is an important “history-of-traditions” work in which Godly Play founder Jerome Berryman re-visions religious education as spiritual guidance and traces the history of Montessori religious education through four generations. Berryman then highlights the development of the Godly Play approach to spiritual guidance within this context and concludes with thoughts about the fifth generation and the future of the tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819228406
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The late Jerome W. Berryman was the founder of Godly Play and had years of experience working with children ages 2–18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman was, for years, Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He was the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, and Stories of God at Home.
 

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 Children and the Quest for Spiritual Maturity 1

2 Foundations: Montessori and the Montessorians 27

3 Transitions: Montessorians and Godly Play 55

4 Godly Play and the Center-point 86

5 The Center-point and Spiritual Maturity 124

6 Spiritual Maturity and Mutual Blessing 153

Notes 185

Bibliography 201

Index 211