When Christian professors left secular universities to join Christian institutes almost 100 years ago, they also took out of the secular universities their reasoned worldview (salt and light). The longer there was no new influx of Christian thinkers, the more universities began to cast off all manner of restraint. Due to the exorbitantly high cost of a private education, and the governmental restraints of a publicly funded education, having a multitude of private Christian universities may never survive over the long haul. As long as Christians define the battle lines as where someone stands on creation, evolution, the flood, personal identity, or any other biblical proclamation, having fear manipulating decisions will be real. There are no easy answers ahead for the education of the church in a post-post-post-modern culture.
When Christian professors left secular universities to join Christian institutes almost 100 years ago, they also took out of the secular universities their reasoned worldview (salt and light). The longer there was no new influx of Christian thinkers, the more universities began to cast off all manner of restraint. Due to the exorbitantly high cost of a private education, and the governmental restraints of a publicly funded education, having a multitude of private Christian universities may never survive over the long haul. As long as Christians define the battle lines as where someone stands on creation, evolution, the flood, personal identity, or any other biblical proclamation, having fear manipulating decisions will be real. There are no easy answers ahead for the education of the church in a post-post-post-modern culture.