Toward a Theory of the Structure of Educational Entities

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How do we conceive of Educational Entities? When is an entity a School, a College, or a University, and not a business or a charity? …

Intraevangelical Debate: Warfield vs Kuyper

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If we look at this evangelical renaissance as an intellectual movement, one theme overshadows all others. In virtually every field the principal interaevangelical debate has …

The End of the Education Debate

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

The next wave of education reform will require both the right and the left to let go of some long-held premises about education policy. ­Conservatives …

Faithful Philosophy: Thoughts on Wolterstorff & Philosophy in the Reformed Tradition

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Nicholas Wolterstorff is a philosopher who works seek to understand human activity in light of his particular Worldview: that of Creation, Fall and Redemption. In …

Faulkner on Formal Education

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Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive Here you can listen in on William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences at the University of Virginia in 1957 and …

On Civic Education

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I have not yet read Os Guinness’ The Case for Civility. However, some statements given in an interview with  byFaith Magazine are worthy of consideration: …

Schools Logically Qualified

The Teacher

As Basden notes, Dooyeweerd did not elaborate much on learning and education. One problem is that Dooyeweerd himself did not seem to discuss learning. The …

Fit for a Republic: Education as Domestication

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Public Schools are quintessentially American. Attending public school is probably the most important common experience undergone by people all over our diverse country. Today education …

Do we need a Christian university?

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This question does haunt me. But it does beg the question: What is a Christian University? I think the best answer may be: What we …

Schools as “Faithful Institutions”?

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Read Jonathon Chaplin’s Loving Faithful Institutions: Building Blocks of a Just Global Society and then help think with me about Schools. Photo: [View of a …

On Aspects

Wheeling Suspension Bridge by Damon Green / © Some rights reserved.

When I think about Aspects one of the things I typically visualize is a suspension bridge, that is: intersecting strands working together to make, hold …