CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION -- Some Historical Observations and Examples -- Some Philosophical Observations and Examples -- Definition of Christian Nurture -- Approach to be Taken -- 2 LIBERAL EDUCATION: THE CONTEXT OF THE CHARGE OF INDOCTRINATION -- History of Liberal Education -- Peters's Concept of Liberal Education -- One Possible Reply to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination -- 3 CONTENT OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE SCIENTIFIC IDEAL -- Doctrines -- Doctrines, Religion, and Science -- Indoctrination and Doctrines -- Christian Nurture, Indoctrination, and the Ideal of Normal Science -- 4 METHODS OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF RATIONALITY -- Indoctrinatory Teaching Methods -- Unavoidability of Indoctrination -- Responses to the Unavoidability of Non-rational Teaching Methods -- Non-rational Teaching Methods Reconsidered -- Rationality -- Normal Rationality, Religion, and Christian Nurture -- 5 INTENTIONS OF THE INDOCTRINATOR AND THE IDEAL OF AUTONOMY -- The Enlightenment Ideal of Autonomy -- Autonomy and Christian Nurture -- Intentions -- Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of Autonomy -- Justification of Autonomy -- Christian Nurture and the Ideal of Autonomy -- Nurturing Normal Autonomy -- 6 CONSEQUENCES OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF CRITICAL OPENNESS -- Meaning of Critical Openness -- Indoctrination and Consequences -- Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of Critical Openness -- Justification of Normal Critical Openness -- Christian Nurture and Normal Critical Openness -- 7 INSTITUTIONAL INDOCTRINATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL OF LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS -- Peshkin, Bethany Baptist Academy, and Total Institutions -- Critique of Peshkin's "Total Institutions" -- "Liberal Institutions" and State Public Schools -- Normal Liberal Institutions.

8 RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION VS. LIBERAL EDUCATION: SOME CONCLUSIONS -- Replies to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination -- Toward a Reconstruction of the Ideal of Liberal Education -- Two Concepts or Phases of Liberal Education -- Toward a Reconstruction of a Theory of Indoctrination -- Conclusion -- 9 SOME PRACTICAL SUGESTIONS -- The Initiation/Socialization Phase/Component of Christian Nurture -- Christian Nurture in Relation to Rationality and Autonomy -- Toward Educational Pluralism -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.