Bøger af Veronica D de Raadt

This book is an edited collection of papers - written by the authors over a period of twenty years - that describes the transition from a system approach to thinking to educational programmes focused on community development. Multi-modal systems thinking integrates the humanities to inspire people to live fully, socially and ethically. The book covers both theory and practical application and gives an account of the authors' design of university programmes and their work in community based projects and research. It has been put together to serve as a text in community development, social analysis and methods courses. But it should be of interest to all professionals including educators, social workers and community practitioners concerned with the crisis in our communities and who wish to add a social and ethical dimension to their practice.

At the beginning of the 2nd century A.D. the leadership of the church was passed on to the Early Fathers who began adapting the Gospel to their own Hellenic culture. Over a period of just one and half centuries, they converted the communities founded by the apostles into a bureaucracy and their work into worship. They also imported theology from neo-platonism and relegated the natural sciences and the humanities - both essential for work - to secularism. From then on, Christianity became equally ineffective to combat the barbarism of Rome, mediaevalism and now modernity. This is a study about how the Early Fathers went wrong. It is necessary that we should understand their error in order to turn around the maelstrom in which modern society finds itself embroiled. The book has been written for university students, but it is of interest to anyone concerned about the education of our youth.