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2022, vol. 1, no. 1, editorial, p. 1-2
Editorial
Theology of Education and
Philosophy of Education in Dialogue
Zuzana Svobodova
Dear readers,
We are introducing the journal Theology and Philosophy of Education, a journal for theology
of education and philosophy of education. The reason for establishing this journal is to create a
common platform for theologians, philosophers, and educators, but also for all helping
professionals, who ask about the aim of human life, self-education and education, ethics,
humanity, and how people from different cultures, nations, languages, who are living today
more and more together could also together search or seek ways of life, ways of truth.
For the abbreviation of the journal-title, we chose TAPE. Of course, it is because Theology
And Philosophy of Education should be connected here. However, one can also hear about
"taping" today. In this way, to tape means also to heal, help, harmonize, or regenerate, relieve,
reconcile, and remedy. We want to connect different approaches to the education of man. In the
old Greek sense, "to harmonize" means connecting and combining opposites even though they
remain distinct or diverse. In Greek mythology, Harmony (Harmonia) was the daughter of the
god of war, Ares, and the goddess of love, Aphrodite. It means the two opposite dynamics were
connected, and then Harmonia was born. In TAPE, we value differences, variety, and diversity.
On the website of this journal, you can read articles which authors have written in diverse
scientific fields. It is not apparent that philosophers, medical doctors, businesspeople, and
theologists can meet in one professional journal. In TAPE, we want to build bridges between
too many separated scientifical approaches and communicate together, not only to seek a better
future for humans but also to pursue wisdom. It means our aim is not only to pursue, conduct,
and practise together with professionals from various backgrounds but also, to see, listen to,
and accept in theory (theoria) together with talented or gifted in different respects, ways, or
aspects.
By establishing TAPE, we desire to learn from each other and co-create an educative
environment where diversity means an opportunity and not a mistake that should be corrected.
However, in TAPE, we also want to ask about the truth behind all our differences, not only
subsequentiy that have scientific variety.
To start publishing a journal also means connecting writers and readers. In TAPE, we have an
international editorial board to unite and combine approaches, cultures, manners, and styles for
living, not just writing and reading, together, not only next to each other. By writing about the
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meaning of education or the sense of life, one is interconnected not only with one's own
situation and position but also with the others and can ask the questions: Who will be the
readers? How do they live in similar or in very different situations? What will they say? Which
questions will they see as the most vivid from their positions? And most importantly, will they
understand what we can see and what we are trying to show?
TAPE wants to recognize theology of education as seeking the sense of faith, which is
connected with self-education and education - or it is not theology. In his Theology of Agape,
Josef Zvěřina, the Czech theologist of the 20t h
century, stated that theologia must broaden itself
in theophilia {Teologie agapé I, 5). Likewise, philosophy of education is a way of life linked
with self-education and education - or it is not philosophy.
In this first TAPE issue, we offer an interview with Professor Karel Skalický, the chief editor
of an exile journal during the communist totalitarian era. In the first reviewed article, Filip
Hlavinka seeks opportunities and boundaries of religious and spiritual speech and a significant
role of poetry in education. Bert Meeuwsen presents Meaning-Oriented Reflection or
MORe3.1.2 as a challenge not only for educators and teachers. Tereza Pinkasová described in
her article how moral development could be supported in courses for medical students.
František Stech, knowing that nobody can drink alone from the well of life, provides an
inspirational vision of dialogue between two theological disciplines if they find not only
teaching but also learning aspects of themselves. By reflecting on theology of education, Stuart
Nicolson identifies and briefly explores the theme of growing closer to God as well as how
Christians can learn to communicate the faith as found in the Vatican II document on education.
Welcome to the TAPE environment; I wish your reading could be healing, inspirational, and
gratifying, as well as bracing, restful, and recreative.
Reference
Zvěřina, Josef. 2003. Teologie Agapé. Edition 2., (in Vyšehrad 1.) Vol. I. Prague: Vyšehrad.
PhDr. Zuzana Svobodová, Ph.D.
https ://orcid. org/0000-0001 -5151-056X
Charles University, University of South Bohemia
Theology and Philosophy of Education
editor in chief
svobodova@tape. academy
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