Light from Alexandria: Recovering a Vision of Christian Paideia for Education and Formation - Hardcover

Willey, Petroc

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798892800907

Publisher: Angelico Press, 2025

Synopsis

In the catechetical ressourcement now underway, the Church is recovering traditional Christian wisdom for her practice of the craft of catechesis. In this new work, Petroc Willey argues that the Church in Alexandria offers a rich and compelling vision of Christian culture to assist in the renewal of pedagogy and the mending of ecclesial life. Under the leadership of Clement and Origen, the Christian community of Alexandria founded a catechetical school that shaped a distinctive Christian paideia in the cultural center of the ancient world. At a time when Christianity was in a minority and controverted situation, and in the context of a wide variety of competing beliefs and practices, the Church in Alexandria established an enduring and powerful Christian witness, drawing together traditions of Jewish wisdom and Hellenistic paideia and philosophy to present Christ as Logos and Pedagogue, as Wisdom, Teacher, and Formator. It is this light from Alexandria that can provide concrete and incisive guidance to foster an evangelizing catechesis and a renewal of Christian culture today.

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About the Author

PETROC WILLEY was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI a Consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, and is currently a Consultor to the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World. A Professor of Theology and Catechetics at Franciscan University, Steubenville, in Ohio, he has authored numerous books and scholarly articles on the catechetical ressourcement, including The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Craft of Catechesis. He studied theology and philosophy in London, Liverpool, Maynooth, and Rome, and before his move to the United States in 2015 taught in England, in Catholic institutions in Oxford and Birmingham. He is married to Katherine and has four children and a growing number of grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Angelico Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798892800907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354