In his Confessions Augustine recasts the Greco-Roman dialogue as a conversation with God. This repositioning of the premier pedagogical form of the ancient world Augustine takes as an implication of the Christian confession of God as a speaking God. Introducing Jewish forms of prayer into the Greco-Roman dialogue form transforms it in a manner that has implications for the teaching of Christian ethics today, in offering a theologically elaborated model of the formative and investigative power of conversation. Conversational learning is a practice in which finite creatures lovingly explore a creation that cannot be comprehended completely. Christians understand this formative and explorative conversation as a conversation with God, mediated by Scripture, which prepares its participants to model trust-building conversation in public.

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祈祷与基督教伦理的教导：与上帝的苏格拉底对话？

在他的《忏悔录》中，奥古斯丁将希腊罗马的对话改写为与上帝的对话。这种对古代世界首要教学形式的重新定位，暗示了基督教承认上帝是说话的上帝。将犹太祈祷形式引入希腊-罗马对话形式，以一种对当今基督教伦理学的教学产生影响的方式转变了它，提供了一个神学上详细阐述的对话形成和调查力量的模型。 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 会话式学习是一种实践，在这种实践中，有限的生物充满爱意地探索无法完全理解的创造。基督徒将这种形成性和探索性的对话理解为与上帝的对话，以圣经为中介，让参与者准备好在公共场合模拟建立信任的对话。