Kairos moments and serendipitous insights: lived experiences of children as a means of grace in the Godly Play room
This article reports on a small-scale research project conducted in Australia investigating the perceptions of some Godly Play storytellers in relation to children as a means of grace. Seven Godly Play storytellers were chosen indiscriminately to participate by writing a short anecdote about a time...
Published in: | Journal of beliefs and values |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2021
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In: |
Journal of beliefs and values
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Godly play
/ Child
/ Sacrament
/ Kairos
/ Serendipity
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RelBib Classification: | AH Religious education CB Christian life; spirituality KBS Australia; Oceania RF Christian education; catechetics |
Further subjects: | B
Kairos
B Serendipity B Grace B Godly play B Children |
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Summary: | This article reports on a small-scale research project conducted in Australia investigating the perceptions of some Godly Play storytellers in relation to children as a means of grace. Seven Godly Play storytellers were chosen indiscriminately to participate by writing a short anecdote about a time during one of their Godly Play classes in which a child acted as a means of grace. A phenomenological framework drawing on the evocative method was used to present and analyse the written anecdotes. Two of the findings of this research are presented through phenomenological writing – (1) grace is communicated during moments of serendipitous insight, and (2) grace is communicated in the Kairos moment which demands an ability to know how to act – to seize the moment. While these findings are valuable, further research is needed to examine and verify ways in which children can act as a means of grace. |
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ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2020.1817648 |