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The Christian Philosophy of Education Explained

Author: Stephen C. Perks
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The deterioration of academic standards and discipline in State schools in the last twenty-five years has finally forced the issue of education upon the consciences of many Christians who would not otherwise have considered it. There is both good and bad in this. The crisis in State education has led some to reconsider the whole issue of education and the place of Christian children in a State system that promotes secular humanism as a virtue and discourages the traditional Christian worldview and its code of morality. This is surely good. Yet the fact that it has taken such a crisis to awaken Christian parents to their responsibilities as Christians in this area is indicative of a serious failure in the Church’s understanding of its calling in the world. In this situation there are many voices offering many different solutions to the problem. Some Christian pressure groups and parliamentary lobbying groups have tried to introduce measures into the law aimed at Christianising the State education system, others at securing State funding for independent Christian schools. A few advocate the withdrawal of all education, Christian or otherwise, from the orbit of State authority and funding. In this situation it is important that Christians consider all the relevant issues in the light of biblical teaching. Only when this has been done are we in a position to make an intelligent decision about the correct Christian response. The aim of this book is to explain the Christian philosophy of education and thereby help those who read it to make that Christian response. Stephen C. Perks is the Director of the Kuyper Foundation, a Christian charitable trust dedicated to promoting a distinctively Christian worldview, and Editor of Christianity & Society, the quarterly journal of the Kuyper Foundation.

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