Archive for November, 2006
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“A Balanced Epistemology: Challenge: To Preserve the Idea of Truth”
I love the title of Chapter 6 of Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”. Balanced is the best word to describe Duane Litfin’s epistemology.
“It seems to me,” he writes on p. 110, “that we Christians have our work cut [...]
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This is the forth part in a series of blogs I’ll be writing about Litfin’s excellent book “Conceiving the Christian College”. You really should read part one in which I explain who Litfin means by Jesus Christ or some of this won’t make sense.
In Chapter 5, Duane Litfin [...]
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The American Enterprise Institute has done a lot of good for our great country. For one thing, they had the guts to expose the great liberal conspiracy that is called “education”. I want to give a personal view of the sad effects of this conspiracy.
A true story
When I was young, I had a [...]
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In honor of Duane Litfin’s book being a finalist for the 2007 Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, I continue my review of the book by examining Chapter 4: “A Centered Education: CHALLENGE: to keep the center at the center”.
Recall that the center of a “Christ-centered education” is the post-resurrection [...]
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This is the second part in a series of blogs I’ll be writing about Litfin’s excellent book “Conceiving the Christian College”. You really should read part one or some of this won’t make sense.
Our University bought a copy of this book for every faculty member last Spring and [...]
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The Associated Press is reporting that Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, is to undergo some counseling and spiritual restoration. Praise God for that!
The article heavily quotes H.B. London, vice president for church and clergy at Focus on the Family. London says, “From the Christian perspective, we think in [...]
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I want everyone to read Duane Litfin’s great book “Conceiving the Christian College”. I’m so excited about this book, I just have to share. But I warn you, there are spoilers below!
Our University bought a copy of this book for every faculty member last Spring and it was the book that we discussed [...]
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A buddy of mine and former seminary student, Jason Carlson, wrote a nice blog on statements of faith. Apparently, there is a so-called Christian group (Emergents) that doesn’t have a statement of faith. There is even a so-called theologian (LeRon Shults) who endorses their position.
For those unbelievers out there who don’t know what [...]
