Christian Worldview Integration

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"12 More recently, InterVarsity Press has published a "Christian Worldview Integration Series" which pursues a variety of integrative tasks and addresses several integrative problems in education, communication, psychology, politics, literature, philosophy, and business.\n Caveat Many proponents of integration and worldview approaches dialogue primarily within the believing community, whether it is with Christian faculty in journals such as Christian Scholar's Review or with students who attend the broadly evangelical colleges and universities at which they teach.

When asked their reasons for taking the job at a CCCU school, the two most frequent reasons given by nearly 2,000 faculty were "commitment to Christian higher education" (45%) and …show more content…
nce they got the job, 95% of the faculty at these schools agreed that they "have a good idea of what is meant by the phrase, 'the integration of faith and learning'"16 and 84% of them reported that "it is not difficult for me to integrate faith and learning in my discipline."17 This perception is shared by students at CCCU schools, with 93% of the students agreeing that they "have a good idea of what is meant by the phrase, 'the integration of faith and learning,'"18 and 82% of students reporting that "the faculty at this college/university have enhanced my faith."19 In reply to the first criticism, advocates of the faith-learning integration model have insisted that while traffic should run both ways down the street of faith and learning, when impasses are reached there are good biblical, epistemological, and historical reasons for most often granting the right of way to faith (the apprehension of special revelation) and most often expecting human learning (the apprehension of general revelation) to yield.30 In response to the second criticism, proponents acknowledge that the integration model has been effectively championed by those in the Reformed tradition but they believe that pursuing a "biblical, Christ-centered vision of integration" is not uniquely …show more content…
vironment, the arts and recreation, science, and vocation, among other areas.45 In this way, it is claimed, "a Christian worldview provides the framework for Christian scholarship in any and every field," be it literature, music, social science, health care, social work, or business.46 On this approach, then, Christian scholars and students are called to engage in "distinctively Christian thinking" or "to think in Christian categories" about every possible subject matter so that we can show how "Christian thinking is applicable across the educational curriculum."47 Critics say that worldview approaches are limited by their faulty anthropology which leads them to believe that "the site of contestation between worldviews or ground-motives is located in the realm of ideas."51 Consequently worldview proponents tend to neglect the ways in which people's hearts and imaginations are oriented to the world not just by their mental beliefs but also by habit-forming bodily
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