Paul Griffiths: "Two Theses" on Christianity and Education
Paul Griffiths proposes two theses:
- Being a member of Christ's body and being educated have nothing to do with one another. Witness the fact that the vast majority of Christians have been illiterate and without any of the other particular skills valued and taught by our schools, colleges, and universities. They were, and are, in the Lord's eyes, none the worse for these lacks; many among them are saints.
- The church, broadly construed, has a deep and abiding interest in the intellectual life, and in the formation of some among its members as scholars and thinkers. Witness the fact that it honors its intellectual exemplars as doctores ecclesiae, and that those teachers are among the most accomplished and subtle thinkers and writers to grace the human race.
He then goes on to note that "Among the important tasks in thinking about Christianity and education is to hold these two theses together, for they are both true."
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