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319Review article: Commitment to liberal educationStudies in Philosophy and Education 15 (3): 281-300. 1996.
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50Why do religious people attempt to persuade others of their beliefs? What are the current objections to the religious practice of proselytizing? Is proselytizing an ethically defensible practice? Are there kinds of proselytizing activities that are ethically questionable? Elmer John Thiessen responds to questions like these in an effort to provide a philosophical defense of proselytization, or religious persuasion, as an ethical practice. Thiessen examines and refutes current cultural and academ…Read more
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29Two concepts or two phases of liberal education?[1]Journal of Philosophy of Education 21 (2). 1987.Elmer John Thiessen; Two Concepts or Two Phases of Liberal Education?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 21, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 223–234, https.
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25Religious ToleranceDialogue 23 (1): 121-127. 1984.One reason why religious intolerance is so widespread, according to Newman, is that many people do not understand what tolerance means. Thus, “many intolerant people actually think that they are tolerant, and liberal people usually have trouble explaining to them why they are wrong”. Newman therefore begins his book with an analysis of the concept of tolerance. “Tolerance involves tolerating, that is, accepting, enduring, bearing, putting up with; it involves acceptance in the sense of refrainin…Read more
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11Two Concepts or Two Phases of Liberal Education?Journal of Philosophy of Education 21 (2): 223-234. 1987.Elmer John Thiessen; Two Concepts or Two Phases of Liberal Education?, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 21, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 223–234, https.
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9Religion & Reason: A Symposium J. Douglas Rabb, editor Winnipeg: Frye Publishing, 1983. Pp. xvii, 116Dialogue 25 (1): 195-. 1986.
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5Teaching for Commitment: Liberal Education, Indoctrination, and Christian NurtureMcGill-Queens University Press. 1993.This book defends Christian nurture and education against the frequently made charge of indoctrination. It argues that Christian education is fully compatible with a liberal education.
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4In Defence of Religious Schools and CollegesMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 2001.It is often argued that religious schools and colleges promote intolerance, divisiveness, and fanaticism and that they violate the principle of academic freedom. Some writers also suggest that economic support for religious schools by the state violates the principle of the separation of church and state. Elmer Thiessen provides a philosophical defence of religious schools and colleges against these and other standard objections. He concludes with a radical proposal: a pluralistic educational sy…Read more
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4Religion & Reason: A SymposiumJ. Douglas Rabb, editor Winnipeg: Frye Publishing, 1983. Pp. xvii, 116 (review)Dialogue 25 (1): 195-198. 1986.
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1Percy Byshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (4): 195-197. 1993.
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Liberal Education, Public Schools, and the Embarrassment of Teaching for Commitment.‖In Alven Neiman, Randall R. Curren, Paul Farber, Christine McCarthy, Luise Prior McCarty, Suzanne Rice, Diana Dummitt & Barbara Duncan (eds.), Philosophy of Education 1995., . pp. 473-481. 1996.
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