It is therefore the special vocation of Protestant theology to associate itself with all the developments in science, and to reap the fruits from all the trees
of secular knowledge.
Current Christian high school students seem well - versed in the idea of using faith as an inspiration to
pursue secular knowledge.
The question will be asked, «If we
admit secular knowledge and experience into the term - making process, have we not brought something alien into the Christian ethic?»
The common paradigm in
secular knowledge today is determined by developments in science, technology, communications, political procedures and, ultimately, a world view that comes not only from recent discoveries but also from new ways of looking at old data.
Both intelligence and persistence are required to cope with these problems, and the use of the best types
of secular knowledge in a Christian framework, as in the growing convergence of Christian faith with psychotherapy in pastoral counseling.
Most Christians I know balance their lives with both Faith and
secular knowledge.
Secular knowledge is Objective and alows humans the ability of Free Thinking and Reasoning!
Scholars have looked to it for inspiration in thinking about such questions as the origins of new theological ideas, the relations between changing religious views and changing views of the state, and the religious legitimation of
secular knowledge.
Given this resistance to
secular knowledge, most religious schools are not designed to prepare students for employment (USAID, 2004).
The decision was a slap in the face to Calvary, which prided itself on educating kids in religious and
secular knowledge, but the school didn't turn the other cheek.