For contemporary readers, whether pastors, educators, or historians, revisiting the 2002 papers offers a bracing challenge. In an age of fragmented attention spans and commodified learning, the Methodist vision of education as a means of grace—a practice that knits together the intellect, the heart, and the social fabric—seems not archaic but urgently modern. The papers given at that Oxford conference remind us that a truly Christian education is neither the enemy of piety (as some fundamentalists fear) nor an inconvenient accessory to piety (as some progressives assume). Rather, it is the very school of obedience.
: Wesley viewed education as a tool for social salvation , specifically targeting the working classes to provide them with moral improvement and practical skills. Rather, it is the very school of obedience
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