Augustine, Addiction and Lent: A Pedagogic Exercise
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The article describes a series of pedagogic exercises developed to help students in a General Education course at a Jesuit university to engage fruitfully with Augustine’s Confessions in a way that will facilitate and deepen their understanding of a classic text of the Western tradition and, at the same time, promote their personal formation in keeping with the goals of Ignatian pedagogy.
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Maria Poggi Johnson
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