Posts Tagged ‘presuppositions’
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It is mind-boggling that in the midst of a global financial crisis we have some saying that we need to move toward socialism!
FACT: Capitalism is the most powerful economic system.
EVIDENCE: all of the recent global financial crises have been triggered in the United States and not in any of the socialist countries that make up [...]
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Hamline University
I recently ran across an admissions pamphlet from nearby Hamline University. I was struck by so many things that make it clear how favorably our University compares to theirs.
Without even looking at their materials there is evidence that our University is better. Hamline is in the same class of universities as ours [...]
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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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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 [...]
