The Messianic Character Of American Education

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781879998063

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The Messianic Character of American Education by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

Rushdoony's study tells us an important part of American history: exactly what has public education been trying to accomplish? Before the 1830s and Horace Mann, no schools in the U.S. were state supported or state controlled. They were local, parent-teacher enterprises, supported without taxes, and taking care of all children. They were remarkably high in standard and were Christian. From Mann to the present, the state has used education to socialize the child. The school's basic purpose, according to its own philosophers, is not education in the traditional sense of the 3 R's. Instead, it is to promote "democracy" and "equality," not in their legal or civic sense, but in terms of the engineering of a socialized citizenry. Public education became the means of creating a social order of the educators design. Such men saw themselves and the school in messianic terms. This book was instrumental in launching the Christian school and homeschool movements.

Author : Eugene F. Provenzo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791402177

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Religious Fundamentalism and American Education by Eugene F. Provenzo Pdf

For the past twenty-five years, 'ultra-fundamentalist' Christians have put increasing pressure on American public education to conform exclusively with their own philosophy and vision of education and culture. Eugene Provenzo considers and addresses the impact that the fundamentalist movement has had on such issues as censorship, textbook content, Creationism versus Evolution, the family and education, school prayer, and the state regulation of Christian schools. In exploring both sides of the debate, however, the author concludes that many fundamentalists' concerns are justified, due to a basic inconsistency between the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment and the position that many public schools have legally assumed.

Author : Crawford Gribben
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199370221

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Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America by Crawford Gribben Pdf

"Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the north-west of the United States in an effort to survive and resist the impact of secular modernity. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a programme of migration to the "American Redoubt," a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, eastern parts of Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a location within which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster. These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem and sometimes in mutual dependence to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended, if necessary, by force, and a vision of the future in which American society will be rebuilt according to biblical law. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power, with their books being promoted by leading secular publishers and being listed as New York Times bestsellers. The strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. These believers recognise that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of the migration that might tell us most about the future of American evangelicalism"--

Author : Ernest J. Zarra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781475858549

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When the Secular becomes Sacred by Ernest J. Zarra Pdf

When the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects Upon America’s Public Learning Institutionsis an analysis of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique perspective. Secular teachings, such as social-emotional learning, and sexual and identity philosophies, are behind movements to capture the minds and hearts of America’s students. Contemporary learning institutions resemble places of worship in several ways. This book will explain how this is the case. From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religion. In today’s secular culture there is strong evidence to support the notion that worship of the self, the individual, has usurped the historically sacred place reserved for a transcendent deity. The fact is that this worship of the individual is certainly more fashionable and attractive than traditional orthodoxy or evangelical theology, in a today’s society. Bolstering this self-worship are mandated programs, such as those found in states’ controversial History-Social Science Frameworks, English-Language Arts Frameworks, and new sex education programs. The intention of this book is to provide the reader a realistic look into the effects of religious humanism upon America’s schools and students. Readers will be challenged with the notion that separation of church and state is being ignored for the political advantage of some. Furthermore, the reader will be presented with the argument that self-worship has become more attractive than traditional Judeo-Christian religious teachings, leading to the individual becoming both the worshipper and the object of such self-worship.

Author : James C. Carper,Thomas C. Hunt
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820479209

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The Dissenting Tradition in American Education by James C. Carper,Thomas C. Hunt Pdf

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country's «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish their schools or bring them into conformity with the state school paradigm. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education recounts episodes of Catholic and Protestant nonconformity since the inception of public education, including the creation of Catholic and Protestant schools, homeschooling, conflicts regarding regulation of nonconforming schools, and controversy about the propositions of knowledge and dispositions of belief and value sanctioned by the state school. Such dissent suggests that Americans consider disestablishing the public school and ponder means of education more suited to their confessional pluralism and commitments to freedom of conscience, parental liberty, and educational justice.

Author : Robert Daniel Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107060555

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Judicial Review and American Conservatism by Robert Daniel Rubin Pdf

Majoritarian Justices -- The Great Debate -- The Imperial Judiciary -- Notes -- Index

Author : Gregory Edward Reynolds
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579106386

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The Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures by Gregory Edward Reynolds Pdf

Author : Andrea G. Schwartz
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781891375248

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Lessons Learned from Years of Homeschooling by Andrea G. Schwartz Pdf

After nearly a quarter century of homeschooling her children, Andrea Schwartz has experienced both the accomplishments and challenges that come with being a homeschooling mom. And, she's passionate about helping you learn her most valuable lessons. Discover the potential rewards of making the world your classroom and God's Word the foundation of everything you teach. Now you can benefit directly from Andrea's years of experience and obtain helpful insights to make your homeschooling adventure God-honoring, effective, and fun.

Author : Frederick William Dame
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783735746276

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America's Indomitable Character Volume II by Frederick William Dame Pdf

Volume II of America's Indomitable Character has information on: A synopsis of Volume I. A preview concerning the content of Volume II with the sub-themes of Nature, human nature, society, the social contract, and education and how they weave into American character identity. American character identity and its Colonial connection to the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The historical personage Michel Guillaume (J. Hector St. John) de Crèvecoeur, a French, British, American Colonial citizen, and the America farmer par excellence who posed the famous question: What is an American? Benjamin Franklin's contributions to the developing American character identity. Thomas Paine's revolutionary views on American character identity. Thomas Jefferson's philosophical contributions to American character identity. John Dickinson, America's soldier and founding father. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, American publisher and author who educated Colonial Americans in politics. The literary group the Connecticut Wits who were both for and against America's independent development. The role of Colonial Religion and early attitudes concerning the American Colonial Theater as they relate to American character identity. The American dramatist and jurist Royall Tyler and his play The Contrast (A Comedy in Five Acts) in which the newly developing American consciousness of independence, including female independence, vis-à-vis English foppery and buffoonery are presented. Further, the use of the Native American's chanson du mort, in this case the Song of Alknomook and the dramaturgical presentation of Yankee Doodle are of utmost importance in understanding The Contrast and how they interplay with American character identity. The Albany Plan of Union. The Declaration of Independence written by the Founding Fathers. The Articles of Confederation (and Perpetual Union). A chronology of theatrical events between 1600 and 1800.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony,William Blake,Samuel Blumenfeld,Edward C. Facey,Charles Grant ,A. A. Hodge ,Kirk House ,T. Robert Ingram,J. Gresham Machen ,Henry Manne ,Zach Montgomery ,Tommy Rogers,Dorothy Sayers ,T. Van Der Kooy
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Symposium on Education (JCR Vol. 4 No. 1) by R. J. Rushdoony,William Blake,Samuel Blumenfeld,Edward C. Facey,Charles Grant ,A. A. Hodge ,Kirk House ,T. Robert Ingram,J. Gresham Machen ,Henry Manne ,Zach Montgomery ,Tommy Rogers,Dorothy Sayers ,T. Van Der Kooy Pdf

By every known academic measurement, government-subsidized, secular, compulsory education is a massive failure and getting worse. Yet the American public continues to believe that government-financed education is moral,useful, and basically a great economic bargain.

Author : James A. Bryant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475858570

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A Vocation at Risk by James A. Bryant Pdf

New teachers need a resource which will accomplish three things. First, a work is needed that gives them the imminently practical information that they will need to succeed in their careers. This information includes tips on surviving the politics of a school and how to successfully communicate with the parents of the school. Second, pre-service teachers need a work that will provide them with a workable theoretical base that is clearly tied to their practice. There is no lack of theory in teacher preparation programs, but my research has shown that students do not see the connections between the theory that is preached and their career concerns. Finally, there is a great need for a work that will reacquaint pre-service teachers with the idealistic purposes of education. Many young people choose education as a career because of their desire to “make a difference” in the life of a child or in their community. But by the time they have completed the necessary course work, these same students no longer recall their earlier idealism. There is a tremendous need to remind new teachers of their ideals as they prepare to enter a classroom. This book does all three.

Author : John Eidsmoe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579100957

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God and Caesar by John Eidsmoe Pdf

Jesus said, Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's, thereby approving (at least for this age) the idea of human government. The hard part is deciding what actually belongs to Caesar and what should be reserved exclusively for God. How Christians are to understand and apply Jesus' words has been a point of controversy since the days of the apostles. Many difficult issues that continue to trouble Christians are dealt with in this book: -Is there a biblical pattern for human government? -What should we as Christians expect from government? -Should Christians participate in government? -What does the Bible have to say about issues related to government such as wealth and poverty, left and right, crime and punishment, the family, education, censorship and pornography, civil disobedience, liberation theology, military service? -Do some systems of government follow biblical teaching more closely than others? What about American democracy - how does it measure up? Would a socialist or redistributive economic and governmental system be more biblical? John Eidsmoe brings a wealth of biblical insight, theological reflection, and practical experience to bear on the crucial issue of how biblical Christianity and politics relate. Here at last is a book that simply and clearly shows how we really can give both God and Caesar their due.

Author : Christopher Wolfe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0847692256

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The Family, Civil Society, and the State by Christopher Wolfe Pdf

The exact place of the family in a healthy political community, and the appropriate way to sustain it, are profoundly complicated and difficult questions. The distinguished contributors to this book endeavor to provide some answers. The first part of the book explores what is distinctive in the current situation of the family, and offers both optimistic and pessimistic assessments of the family in our time, as well as a historical overview. In the second part, authors look at the family today; demographics, economics, and social pathologies are all discussed. Part three offers analysis of the family and American law, especially the law of divorce, and the fourth part deals with the relationship between the family and two profoundly important facets of the structural framework of American life: our capitalist economic system and the cultural power of the media. Finally, the fifth part surveys the various areas of public policy, and concludes by asking whether, and what, public policy can do for the family. This is an important book for sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists, educators, and anyone concerned about the state of the family in America today.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781879998292

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Intellectual Schizophrenia by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

The title of this book is particularly significant in that Dr. Rushdoony was able to identify the basic contradiction that pervades a secular society that rejects God's sovereignty by still needs law and order, justice, science, and meaning to life. Secular man wants to use the thinks of creation while denying their creator. As Dr. Rushdoony writes, 'there is no law, no society, no justice, no structure, no design, no meaning apart from God.' And so, modern man has become schizophrenic. He wants to assert his autonomy while rejecting the divine order that gives meaning to life. To the humanist, the aim of living is something he calls the 'good life.' For the nihilist, it is violence and death. Dr. Rushdoony saw cultural schizophrenia as a split between thought and feeling, a withdrawal from the reality of God and a flight into fantasies of world government achieved through an unattainable unity. Utopians are undeniably schizophrenic. They want a heaven on earth, which can only be achieved by coercion and enslavement. But perhaps what they really want, as depraved human beings, is coercion and enslavement, and use utopian idealism to deceive and entrap the gullible. Nor is it by accident that the government schools now lavish so much time on death education, which has been marbleized throughout the curriculum. As Dr. Rushdoony writes: 'For man to turn his back on God, therefore, is to turn towards death.' And this is exactly what the government schools have done. Add to this, multiculturalism, transcendental meditation, sensitivity training, explicit sex education, drug education, evolution, behavioral psychology, humanism, whole language, and other such programs, and you get a curriculum that is so profoundly anti-Christian that one wonders how any Christian parent or minister can condone putting a Christian child in a government school from the forward by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Author : Kenneth O. Gangel,Warren S. Benson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579109011

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Christian Education: Its History and Philosophy by Kenneth O. Gangel,Warren S. Benson Pdf

ÒA history of Christian education must not be confused with a record of the achievements of the Sunday School. The discipline has advanced well beyond that stage, and today's sophisticated students fully understand that no proper concept of the history and philosophy of Christian education can be gained without seeing all the ramifications, implications, and influences that have affected it from pre-Christian times to the present.Ó So Drs. Gangel and Benson have written this book, a historical flow of philisophical thought from a Christian point of view. Its focus is cultural-biographical, discussing each philosophy in its particular socio-historical setting, and giving special attention to significant individuals. The format is chronological, beginning with education in biblical times, working upward through history to arrive at the present - and beyond, raising questions and issues for the future.