Secularism has become the religion of the university campus, and
Christians are often subjected to ridicule and taught that what
they have learned from their parents, (Christian) school, and
church is not worthy of consideration by a thoughtful person in
today's society. How are Christian young people to be
intellectually and spiritually equipped for today's college
campuses? Students must first understand that "all truth is God's
truth." The world is not divided into the realms of the secular,
where science and humanism reign and religion has no place, and the
sacred, where beliefs amount to little more than unsubstantiated
opinion not worth discussing in academic circles. Nothing about
God's world may be rightly understood apart from His Word.
Secondly, students must recognize that everyone has a worldview
through which he interprets everything around him. Humanists love
to picture their approach as objective and unbiased because it is
based on science while dismissing Christian thought as subjective
because it is grounded in faith. Nothing could be further from the
truth. Everyone makes assumptions about the nature of reality, and
those assumptions, whether secular or religious, are not subject to
proof. Instead, they are spectacles that color everything he sees
and determine how he understands all that he encounters. Thirdly,
all worldviews are not created equal. Just because worldviews are
not subject to proof does not mean they cannot be evaluated. In
order for a worldview to be considered valid, it must be internally
consistent, must correspond to the world of human experience, and
must be able to be lived out in practice. Humanistic worldviews
simply don't measure up. Only the Christian worldview, founded in
God's Word, provides an adequate foundation for understanding the
world as it is. If a worldview is like a picture frame through
which one peers out at the world, a "box" inside of which a person
cannot avoid thinking, Christians must "think inside the box" that
God has given us. Fourthly, the Christian student must be equipped
to discern the worldviews underlying the ideas that he encounters
in the college classroom, especially since they are rarely stated
openly. This is essential for believers to be faithful servants of
Jesus Christ by "taking every thought captive" and learning to
"think God's thoughts after Him." Only then will Christians be in a
position to fulfill the Cultural Mandate and exercise dominion over
every aspect of life to the glory of God. Finally, thinking about
reality in the context of a Christian worldview has great
apologetic value. While no one should expect to argue unbelievers
into the Kingdom of Heaven, we must be able to give an answer when
asked why we believe and act as we do. The people in the secular
society have been brainwashed to believe that Christians are
ignorant, bound by outmoded tradition, and incapable of dealing
realistically with the modern world. A careful analysis of secular
thought will demonstrate just the opposite, and students who engage
in such a study will be able to stand up in the face of the
inaccurate perceptions and straw-man arguments that the world so
often uses against Christians. The book covers thirteen academic
disciplines organized around four broad categories - Humanities,
Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Fine Arts. Each chapter
seeks to explain how and why the Christian approach to each subject
differs from the secular approach, and the consequences of each.
While each section includes specific examples, the main focus is on
the underlying assumptions that distinguish Christian from
non-Christian thought. After all, the conclusions reached by
unbelievers are hard to attack if their worldview is tacitly
accepted. We want our Christian young people to be like the Bereans
who, after listening to the Apostle Paul, spent their time
"examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so."
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