Advance Comment
Anabaptist Ways of Knowing
A Conversation About Tradition-Based Critical Education

"Tapping the wisdom of Plato, the early Anabaptists, and contemporary thinkers, this superb study shows how daily habits shape our personal and communal character. In concise and compelling style, Shenk demonstrates how core practices form personal values in family, congregation, and school. A major, groundbreaking contribution to Anabaptist understanding and practice. A must read for parents, pastors, and educators."
—Donald B. Kraybill, author of The Riddle of Amish Culture and Senior Fellow, The Young Center, Elizabethtown College

"Sara Wenger Shenk invites us to a dinner table set with the best. The crisp linens come from the gospel narratives. The china is imported across centuries of time and many cultures, a different plate at each place, representing great thinkers about knowing. The silver awaits its function as a tool for selecting the best thoughts for the right task. The goblets glisten with the wine of the resurrected Christ whose knowing and loving are one. Together, this table offers us elements of Anabaptist identity for which many of us have been waiting. Come and dine!"
—Shirley Hershey Showalter, President, Goshen College

"Drawing on a wealth of current resources, Shenk has devised an approach to education that draws its strength from the particular, the practical, the timely, and the local. This pedagogy recognizes its indebtedness to tradition, understood as the social and critical embodiment of the community’s formative texts."
—Nancey Murphy, in the Foreword

"This book is a creative work of practical theology that enhances our understanding of Christian formation from an Anabaptist perspective. Shenk presents a compelling case for tradition-based critical education stemming from a fruitful conversation among several partners concerned with education as a way of knowing. She insightfully weaves a theory of education in terms of the fundamental questions of what it means to know and how we can faithfully sponsor knowing in the light of God as revealed by Jesus Christ. Readers are invited to join the conversation at the table with the purpose of refocusing educational vision and revitalizing the teaching ministry in the settings of church, family, and school. This is a wonderful and timely contribution!"
——Daniel S. Schipani, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

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