The horizons of Theology and the schools of the 21st century Philosophy of education is a highly developed research field and indeed an industry. Theology of education is a newer field but a growing one. Theology of education implies the definition and creation of Schools of transcendental excellence - amid the lived life of an educational ethics of superlative, infinite, consummative excellence. If every theological statement is really a call to community, than I think it is clear that there lies before us in the wake of this conference a splendid opportunity to re-articulate the field of educational ethics as a progressive, intelligent science, whose mission is to heed God's new Word about the moral excellence of the schools and students and teachers of tomorrow. A new day is dawning for education, if it can strive for moral excellence while maintaining the clarity of thought which we associate with business, science and engineering, without sacrificing the splendid imagination of the artist which helps design our schools as places of the heart where students and teachers in concert learn to follow the calling of God, from glory unto glory.
Educational ethics is a nascent community of international stature whose time has come.
It is a community of rigorous, imaginative moral reflection which has been born here. This is the task of educational ethics. The process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead helps us to accept change as much as substance as a cardinal concept of ethics. Indeed, the movement from process to vector goes further and provides for us the impetus and the conceptual apparatus to launch moral acceleration as a power of the soul as we design our schools and academies ever more in harmony with the leading of the Divine Spirit. Copyright 1997-1999 by Richard Kirby.