Talking about God means we are talking about everything.
Find out why by watching or reading my one-minute explanation.
G. K. Chesterton, famed Christian apologist, saw the basic problem of God and reality. Chesterton said, “You cannot evade the issue of God: whether you talk about pigs or the binomial theory, you are still talking about Him . . . If Christianity should happen to be true – God being the real God of the universe – then defending Christian truth means talking about anything and everything.”
Teaching about everything was my experience teaching in Christian high schools. My compatriots and I were constantly interacting with each other’s disciplines. Team-teaching was ongoing. Collaboration was taken for granted. After a few years I altered the title of “Bible” classes replacing it with the acronym CLAWS for “Christian Life and World Studies.” As colleagues were engaging biblical texts in their classrooms, I was bringing math, science, history, literature, or fine arts to intersect with Scripture.
Thanks for spending this minute with me, Dr. Mark Eckel.
[Chesterton quote edited for clarity, from A.L. Maycock, The Man Who Was Orthodox, 1963. The second section from https://warpandwoof.org/beyond-integration/ ]
Dr. Mark Eckel is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration at Liberty University.
Good Stuff!! Mixing it up, making connections to area of subject that they may have never connected. Providing ways for all to learn as we all learn, remember and connect things mentally different. multimodal is one of the five that you are/have used in this teaching! Lora
Thanks as always for sharing your insights Mark. As always you bring an fresh perspective to the everyday!