Archive for October, 2007
Where We Stand
Although it is helpful to have a comprehensive vision of education, equally important is an understanding of where we actually stand as a society with regard to education. The prominence of our institutions of higher learning may deceive us into thinking that people are being adequately educated every day. Rather, the opposite is true. Seeing [...]
31Oct2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
Adequate Education
Receiving or obtaining an adequate education is something that takes time. It cannot be done in a year or two– there is too much to learn. And if we do not have people teaching us who know what they are doing, our education is likely to be full of gaps.
Education can [...]
Knowledge and Choice
In our lives we are constantly faced with choices. These choices may be rather trivial: where to eat lunch, for example. Or they may be serious: how to raise a child. They may regard things in the short term: which gym should I join? Or long term: how should I [...]
24Oct2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
Ultimate Images
“Thou shalt not make any graven image.” Deuteronomy 5
Just as the mind has ideas which it associates with ultimate reality, it also has images that implement these ideas in our actual lives. If we want to worship and serve God, which requires an accurate picture of the world in our mind, we [...]
The City of God
“The individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.”
“Man is by nature a political animal” –Aristotle, Politics
When we look at the art of the Early Church, one of the most striking things is its depiction of Heaven. Though there are not so [...]
The Believer and the Institutions
“What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?’ Jesus answered answered and said unto them, ‘this is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent.” John 6
“Put forth your hand.” Exodus 3
God gives his servants power by working with their work. [...]
A Picture of the World
“A nation without a metaphysics is like a temple with no holy of holies.” –Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Each idea system that effectively rules over mankind has a particular picture of ultimate reality associated with it. The idea system under which we currently live in America (Secularism) presents the universe as being only made of matter, and [...]
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