The task of a Christian school, college, or university is not to just provide a “safe” place for the dissemination of information that one can get at the public or state school down the street. Nor is it merely to provide a “Christian perspective” on what the world thinks counts as knowledge in order to become successful and productive citizens of a disordered society. Rather, the Christian college’s mission is more radical than that: in some significant way, it involves the formation of disciples. In short, the Christian college is a formative institution that constitutes part of the teaching
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