Where Wisdom May Be Found: The Eternal Purpose of Christian Higher Education

By Pickwick Publications

All Christian colleges and universities hail the integration of faith and learning as a premier mission objective. There is less agreement as to what the integration of faith and learning should look like in pedagogical and cross-disciplinary terms. This volume proposes that faith and learning are interrelated from the start. Discovery of truth within the academic disciplines cultivates discipline-specific wisdom that both accords with all reality and complements the whole counsel of God. Where Wisdom May Be Found brings together a faculty of twenty-seven accomplished voices from across curricula to celebrate each field's capacity for revealing wisdom from all corners of God's creative design. In synthesis, these voices declare the depth and richness of the wisdom and knowledge of God for the educational advancement and holistic equipping of the corporate people of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Release date: Aug 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781498296113

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The Role of Biblical Exegesis within the Christian College Curriculum

Clinton E. Arnold

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

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For Christians, the starting point for acquiring wisdom is the Bible. This is because God has chosen to reveal himself authoritatively in his written word as demonstrated by the life and ministry of our Lord. Jesus himself modeled biblical wisdom through fidelity to the holy Scriptures in his messianic call as the Son of God. After his baptism, three times Jesus rebuffed Satan’s temptations with the preface, it is written (Matt 4:4, 7, 10). Indeed, Jesus was resolute in his mission to fulfill Scripture faithfully and obediently. He viewed the Torah, the Writings, and the Prophets as revelation directly from God that spoke to all of life, and especially Jesus’ own mission and work. From his baptism at the beginning of his ministry, where God defined his ministry in terms of Psalm 2:7 and Isaiah 42:1 (Matt 3:17), to the very end of his earthly ministry, where he quoted Psalm 22 from the cross and explained his identity as risen Lord to the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:27), Jesus knowingly acted to both explain and fulfill Scripture. Therefore God calls Christians today, those who are in Christ and in union with Christ, to follow Jesus’ example by devoting themselves to Scripture-directed lives regardless of vocation and