Three Views On Christian Education
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Submitted by jaredchristian on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Three Views On Christian Education
view three:
Christian Education, in a classical sense, believes that the source of reality, creativity, and wonder are all wrapped up in the person and mind of God. Therefore, believers who assert the proposition that God exists and acts in accordance with a correct interpretation of the scriptures, justify exploration of creativity (art) and science as means of partially deapthing the riches of God's nature.
An Education that is administered in Christian charity (another sense of 'Christian Education') is not necessarily driven by the classical-Christian world view. At its very best, it is enacted by Christians with the charitable interests of others in mind. This means that toil and grace are judiciously mixed as are all aspects of love.
view two:
Ideally Christian Ed. should set theology at the center of someone's thinking and reason and let the discovery of knowledge branch out from there. Only problem is the Church (as in Catholic Church) did that so much so they held to a flat earth. Thus saith the Lord "To the ends of the Earth." Since the Bible said the Earth had ends, the earth must be flat. This is and example of bad Christian ed.
Good Christian Ed. is found in models like Blaise Pascal. He was motivated by God and Theology, out of which he used the sciences to find out about God. We see that is Bach, and Michelangelo as well.
See the difference. Pascal used his Knowledge of God as a motivation and explanation for the way things worked, the Church often used the Bible to explain nature, knowledge, the arts, etc
view three:
I think in general that the christian schools responsibilty is to educate the child. By educate I mean the foundational subjects that every child is taught in school. That said I do think that there are some differences in how those things are taught in a christian school, based completely on the fact that you have an absolute standard of truth...
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