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Christian Education - Coggle Diagram
Christian Education
Core Courses
Soul Formation
Refine the heart
Intelectual Empathy
Orthodoxy (right belief)
Orthopraxy (right practice)
Challenges
Secular critics
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses"
Sigmund Freud: "religious fervor is a mental illness"
Degree compression
Technical Education requires more classes now
Students should study devotionally
Opportunities to explore careers and service options
Lordship of Christ
Christian Middle Ages
Trivium
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Quadrivium
Arithmetic
Astronomy
Music
Geometry
Philosophy
Theology
Christian Humanism / Liberal Arts
"All truth is God's truth"
God is the author of all truth
Pursuit of truth = pursuit of God
Christian principles used by non-Christian thinkers
Principle became known as "Spoils of Jerusalem"
Example from scripture: The Gold and Silver were taken from the temple in 70AD when the Romans conquered Jerusalem
Western Education
"Bachelor of arts"
"Bachelor of science"
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Redeeming Pagan Education
Example from scripture: Spoils of Egypt (Gold and Silver) were used later on to build the temple in Israel.
Principle became known as "Spoils of Egypt"
wrote "On Christian Doctrine and Confessions"
Reject falsehood
Embrace the truth of scripture
Greco Roman Students
Liberal Arts tied to citizenship of the State
Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflic (1920s)
"Fundamentalist" vs. "Liberal"