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Rethinking Christian Education: Primary through High School, Colleges, and Seminaries

 Different pressures on Christian institutions to conform to an ever-changing culture need to force those hoping to continue to do what they have been doing to rethink what they are doing.  That statement could be affirmed by the enemy of Christian institutions, but it is meant as a prod to get the deer (Christian education) in the headlights of culture to move for its own good. What have we been doing?  Christian education in Europe led the way for colleges and universities centuries before the Enlightenment.  During a time when theology was the queen of the sciences, the Church affirmed a need for quality in education, training for ministry and professions, the preservation of knowledge, research, the articulation of truths, and certification.  The Enlightenment carried these concerns on, but with science replacing theology at the head of the faculties.  God was packed off to a sub-faculty of the university and told not to meddle with objective research and teaching.  Even so, Christ