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The Christian ideal is that love, not power, is the basis of community. As Scott Peck observed:
In genuine community there are no sides … the members … have learned how to listen to each other and how not to reject each other … they respect each [other’s] gifts and accept each [other’s] limitations, … they celebrate their differences and bind each … [other’s] wounds, [and] … they are committed to a struggling together rather than against each other.1
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Notes
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 39.
Anthony Diekema, Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), 39.
See Arch Keen Wong, Rod Remin, Rick Love, Ray Aldred, Peter Ralph, and Charles Cook, “Building Pedagogical Community in the Classroom,” Christian Higher Education 12, no. 4 (2013): 282–295.
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Ringenberg, W.C. (2016). Community. In: The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398338_10
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