Professor Encourages Teachers to Remain Grounded in the Great Commandment
Biola apologetics director addresses school teachers worldwide in his article published in the Association of Christian Schools International journal.
Craig J. Hazen, Biola University apologetics director, partnered with several other Christian leaders to write articles for the special July/August issue of Christian School Education; the worldwide publication of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).
Hazen’s essay "Grounded in the Great Commandment" addresses how to develop the minds of students in a spiritually robust way--especially in the face of the new militant atheism.
“To have a chance at flourishing in Christ, our students will need to be prepared to love God with everything they have – including their minds,” writes Hazen. “The new atheists – and the old-style atheists too, for that matter – are blinded to reason and evidence that could lead them to the gates of true human flourishing.”
Hazen speaks to the cultural worldview that one should love God with their heart, but without emphasis on the mind.
“Loving God with our minds denotes approaching Him with our intellectual faculties, and in our secular age, that has a very strange texture to it,” writes Hazen.
He notes that in popular culture, the mind is only able to grasp what is presented to it scientifically.
“However…this pervasive scientistic and physicalist outlook does not comport in any way, shape, or form with what Jesus considered the most important things in life: acknowledging God and loving Him with every ounce of our being,” wrote Hazen.
ACSI is an association leading schools toward greater effectiveness through different services and hopes “to enable Christian educators and schools worldwide to effectively prepare students for life.”
Read Hazen’s entire essay, courtesy of ACSI.
Hazen is the director of the MA program in Christian apologetics of Biola University. Learn more about the apologetics program at Biola.
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