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This five-year plan seeks to comprehensively develop IAPCHE’s ability to serve Christian higher education internationally and regionally, particularly in the areas of research, promotion, programming, administration, membership, and financing. To read the latest narrative about this initiative, click here. Click here to download a PowerPoint presentation about it. |
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Statement on Christian Higher Education
1.
What is Christian higher education?
Christian higher education encompasses all educational endeavors at the
tertiary or undergraduate and graduate level, in which all facets of
created reality, especially human life, are explored and examined in an
advanced and more detailed manner than they are in primary and secondary
education.
2. On what foundations should Christian higher education be developed?
In distinction from its non-Christian counterparts, Christian higher
education assumes a recognition of:
· The
operation of religious commitments controlling all educational and
research processes.
· A
desire to perform its entire task in the light of God’s inscripturated
revelation.
· The
presence of God’s Word and Spirit to, respectively, structure and guide
created reality; consequently any concepts of neutrality and/or
relativism are rejected.
· The
distortions of disobedience and its repercussions in all educational and
research activities.
· The
call to redemption and restoration, not just abstract analyses and
descriptions of impersonal research.
· The
importance of a local and global community of competent and effective
educators and researchers concerned with developing integrated academic
programs and providing serviceable insight in their areas of
specialization for the benefit of society.
3. What is the purpose of Christian higher education?
The unique purpose of Christian higher education is:
· To
deepen our understanding of the world and human life in it,
· To
design steps that address and seek to correct distortions in all of
life,
· To
prepare students and other members of the academic community for
knowledge and competent discipleship in an increasingly complex world
and culture,
· To
serve the larger Christian community as it seeks, through
Spirit-directed faithful witness, to bring the healing power of Christ
to bear in all area of life. |