The quest for better education in the West would be greatly enhanced by a curriculum from the Puritans. I recently became aware of a missing ingredient in the contemporary discussion of the health and development of nations. I speak of the concept of a unified field of knowledge that accurately encompasses
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The Puritans, like the Bereans before them, regarded the scriptures as the ultimate trump card in the trilogy of God’s revelation Truth is both revealed, and hidden. It is revealed through the word of God. As Jesus prays, in John 17:17, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”
“But the point is now determined, and I shall have the liberty to think for myself.” So wrote John Adams—the second US President—upon entering the study of law. Like the Berean Jews (Acts 17:11), Adams demonstrates the independent thinking of a free people. In his 2003 Jefferson Lecture on the
This is post 5 of 5 in the series “Harvard's erosion” VERITAS – The Puritan Pursuit of Truth The Atheists Who Honored the Bible The HARVARD WALL that Exposes the Modernist Rewrite of History SEMINARY: Education or Religious Schooling? part 1 No More Puritans at Harvard? Puritan pastor John Harvard,
A renewal of the founding principles of the US is past due; no big headline there. But we’ve come to a pretty turn of things when the “largest solid granite sculpture in the U.S.”—a magnificent tribute to our Pilgrim founders—is virtually invisible, and at the same time, the anchor of
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Harvard's erosion” VERITAS – The Puritan Pursuit of Truth The Atheists Who Honored the Bible The HARVARD WALL that Exposes the Modernist Rewrite of History SEMINARY: Education or Religious Schooling? part 1 No More Puritans at Harvard? Seminary training, for the most
The human mind, bestowed by a Divine Creator, has developed remarkable technologies. How ironic that this rise of technical innovation could lead to the demise of the mind that invented the technologies in the first place! We have written elsewhere about Technologia, an educational concept birthed by the Puritans and
America can be restored, notwithstanding the long downward path and recent defeats. The nation can be healed, but only with intentional and informed engagement by a remnant. First, we must recognize that ultimately, healing nations is God’s work: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves
The goal of the Puritan vision for education was the practice of right living. Noah Webster (1758-1843), the father of American scholarship and education, was in the line of the Puritans and their radical Pilgrim cousins. He was a descendent of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony and America’s first
Education in the West has suffered from the influence of atheism. The rise of atheism brought the death of absolute truth and morality in the West. Without an infinite and transcendent reference point, individuals became the center of the universe. Moral and metaphysical relativism form the framework for one’s life
