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Christian Education, 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for…

- - - - Study is one means through which we may learn about God and His ways.
      - The liberal arts were viewed as critical to building a foundation to proper thinking about God (theology).
      - All truth, in this view, is God’s truth because He is the Author of all that is true; thus, the pursuit of truth is the pursuit of God.
      - all education as pointing to the divine order built into the universe
- - - - Developing students’ minds was never detached from the development of character or the cultivation of the spirit.
      - Even pre-Christian Western education underscored the idea that heads, hands, and hearts were somehow united in the living out of the worthwhile life.
    - - “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”
        
        In an age where the news is filled with indictments of many brilliant criminals who have bilked fortunes or abused power for selfish purposes, the need for a model of education that includes ethics and spiritual development is abundantly clear
- - - - understanding of truth (or Truth) is rooted in the idea of the essential lordship of Christ over all of creation, including the world of ideas.
        
        Such a foundational understanding of the faith that was delivered once for all (Jude 3) is lived out through the glorification of God through our hearts, souls, and minds (Matt 22:37).
        
        cultivation of the mind in unison with the formation of the soul, with the ultimate attenuation of the heart to the utter glorification of God through our lives.
    - - courses explore their various disciplines and approaches to the world of knowledge, students have a unique opportunity to see both the expansiveness of the Christian intellectual tradition and the ways that biblical and historical principles have influenced culture and life as a whole.
- - - - the core will allow students to learn how to think like a variety of practitioners of different academic fields.
        
        may examine the facts like a scientist to understand those facts as empirical data, like an economist to understand the costs of the proposed solutions, like a political scientist to learn how the solutions might play out in the realm of governments
        
        local, regional, national, and international considerations
        
        like a sociologist to ponder the human effects of the solutions on culture
        
        like an ethicist to scrutinize their larger-picture ramifications on creation as a whole.
      - What is its value?
        
        yields a strong sense of shared humanity.
        
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- - - - leading to
        
        a sense of purpose and cohesion to the program, in that courses will fit together (and even overlap) in complementary ways.
        
        produce a core curriculum that emphasizes shared experiences among the learning community.