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.