Wednesday, 10 December 2008

• Fill me in...Intergrating Faith & Learning 2

                                                            

  This blog is my first in response to “Integrating Faith and Learning in Higher Education” by David S. Dockery, President of The Research Institute of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Fall Meeting September 20, 2000.

      In this article David Dockery says that “The integration of faith and learning is at the essence of authentic Christian higher education and should be wholeheartedly implemented across the campus and across the curriculum” He feels that this use to be the goal of every college in America. But suggest that after the 19^th century there was a rise of secularization and specialization. All the colleges up until this point with the exception of University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia were Christian based colleges.

  Dockery believes that this rise created “dualisms of every kind—a separation of head knowledge from heart knowledge, faith from learning, revealed truth from observed truth, and careers from vocation”. I do not know much about the history of this division beginning to take place. As I read this in the article it was sad that I could not imagine our country having so many faith based higher education schools. I learned that most colleges in the United States have a Christian foundation.

  What has pulled us away from this foundation?

  Any facts about this that anyone can add?

  Educate me please

  Thanx!

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