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"This volume is a statement of principles. It is not a detailed discussion of particular methods, nor of particular types of organization, nor a defense of any particular curriculum. Neither is it intended as a treatise on the phiolosophy of religious education, such as Professor Coe has so splendidly achieved in his "Social Theory of Religious Education." In this new field of science, religious education, we find earnest workers in lay positions of the local church as well as in the ranks of the ministry. Inquiring students of religious education abound also on college and university teaching staffs. Among undergraduates in our institutions of higher learning an increasingly large number of inquiring minds are seeking to acquire a reasonable understanding of the scope of religious education. In reply to this interest, the many diverse ideas of religious education current present considerable confusion of thought. In has been our purpose, therefore, to bring together in one volume the bearing of the most important findings of scientific study upon the religious educative process. Yet mere compilation has been carefully avoided. The goal has been rather to obtain a single, comprehensive, balanced view, and attempt at basic organization into a coherent whole of all the elements in the science of religious education---a correlated system of fundamental ideas by which particular theories and efforts in religious education may be guided and tested. In brief, it is an introduction to the field of religious education in terms of principles. The execution of this aim led to the preparation of a tentative syllabus on the principles of religious education for study and general comment and criticism. Further working over and elaboration followed. Most of the material herein offered, therefore, has been tried out; for over three years in the cas of two church colleges, and for one year in tow others. I has also been used by several other study groups, in one..." [from preface]
