MENTORATUL ÎN FORMAREA SPIRITUALĂ. SPECIFICITATE, IMPORTANȚĂ, CONFIGURĂRI ÎN CONTEMPORANEITATE
MENTORING IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION. SPECIFICITY, IMPORTANCE, CONTEMPORARY CONFIGURATIONS

Author(s): Constantin Cucoș
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Education, Theology and Religion, School education, Adult Education
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: mentoring; discipleship; religious education; educational relationship; spiritual values; experiential learning;
Summary/Abstract: The preparation and training systems for assuming roles of a spiritual nature (artistic, religious), but not only, have assumed, throughout history, paideic foreshadowings that are completely different, more flexible, less formalized, more particularized and full of affective-subjective effervescence than those institutionalized, formalized at school or university level. Not that the latter were not also intended for an explicit vocational-spiritual training, but, at a given time and from certain points of view, the official educational offers were not able to face challenges regarding formation of special skills required by the practices in mind. In fact, in artistic or religious environments, these training formulas prefaced what happens now in what we generically call school, schooling, learning, but they continued to function simultaneously and supplement what education cannot do. In the text below, we propose to present specific elements of the mentoring relationship in spiritual formation and to emphasize the relevance and opportunity of promoting this paideic relationship.

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