“The scandal of the evangelical mind prompt one”
Attending a Christian college does not automatically apply the “life of the mind” to a person. It is not just what you learn that is important but how you look at it. While a good college will try it’s best to frame the knowledge with a Christian worldview, it takes action on the learners part to decide how they will look at it. I can take an economics class and only see boring numbers while the professor constantly shows the importance of economics in relation to life and Christ. In order to have “life of the mind” one must themselves build this Christian framework and choose to look through it. A professor can guide them, but only you can walk through the door. However, looking through this framework is much easier with a professor who works with you rather than one who merely teaches the facts. For this reason, how the subject is taught and handled by a college is nearly as important as to how the person themselves looks at the subject. Another thing that can hinder the “life of the mind” is if the college isn’t liberal arts, or has a poor liberal arts program. If one merely learns about their selected major, then they have a very narrow focus and participate in the scandal. Sorry for this boring and meaningless prompt. The reading did not affect my opinion on this topic nor do I find this topic important to me at the moment. I have much bigger things to spend time worrying/meditating about.
1) What is the base to this framework?
2) Why is it called “life of the mind” sorry, just a picky question.
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