World of Love - Questions and Comments

This will be a growing and changing resource, including questions with answers by the author and suggestions, criticisms and comments added by readers, somewhat like the question and discussion period following a lecture.

May 12, 1998
I read your chapter 16 this evening with great interest, since I draw on Wink and Myers as the main sources for the faith and society class which I teach at Messiah College. Your/Kohlberg's stages of development/god images will help me relate better to where students are in their pilgrimage if I can learn to use this information
creatively.

On Paul's conversion, I have been struck by how central the issue of violence was in his conversion. He was converted from thinking that God's community had to be secured/defended and preserved by violence to believing that love is the fulfilling of the law. And his conversion happened when Ananias, a member of the community which Saul was threatening, approached Saul with the words, "Brother Saul.' An astonishing greeting, given the situation! But it does appear that it spoke to Saul's heart.

John K. Stoner

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