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基督教教育的基本概念

前言

从相信上帝是所有真理之源开始, education becomes the exciting adventure of seeking to appropriate knowledge in all its various facets under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

基督教的教育以圣经中对上帝的看法作为它的观点, 人类与宇宙的相互关系.

然而，基督教背景下的教育并不能保证真理, it does seek to establish the starting point apart from which ultimate truth can never be learned. 这很重要, 因此, 从基督教的角度来确定教育的方向, and the following Statement has been drawn up in an attempt to make this clear as related to bwin体育大学. 无论如何，它都不应该被认为是最后一句话, but it purports to be the foundational concept upon which scholarship under God may thrive and expand.

This view of education rests upon the historic Christian faith contained in the Scriptures, 以bwin体育印章上的《bwin体育》为标志. Holding to the summary of this faith as contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith of the mid-seventeenth century, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America has endeavored for over 150 years to offer through bwin体育大学 an education that articulates the implications of the sovereignty of 耶稣基督 over all of His creation.

" For with Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light shall we see light.诗篇36:9

基督教教育的神学基础

基督教对上帝的看法.
上帝是一个存在，存在于三个人:圣父、圣子和圣灵. He is a personal being, possessing in Himself all that personality means yet without limitation. He is the self-existent Creator, Preserver and Controller of the universe in its totality.

基督教的人类观.
男人和女人是所有生物中独一无二的, 以理性的上帝形象被创造出来，从而区别于动物, 道德和精神的存在. 人生的目的就是荣耀和享受神, 只有这样看待生活，才能获得最高的幸福, 福利和荣誉是要体验的. bwin体育被创造成不朽的生命. Earthly life is 因此 preparatory to the life after death and should not be regarded as an end in itself, 虽然作为上帝的创造，现在的世俗生活有它自己的真正价值.

By our relationship to Adam, as representative of the human race, we are fallen creatures. 用道德反抗上帝, we lost both our position of communion with God and our ability to consciously reflect God's glory, 取而代之的是对自我的崇拜和夸大. bwin体育的罪不仅影响了bwin体育的道德本性，也影响了bwin体育的智力, 使bwin体育容易犯错, 需要神的启示来决定所有领域的终极标准和价值. The moral and intellectual effects of sin are such that we are incapable of removing them by our own effort.

耶稣基督, 如同第二个亚当, 作为bwin体育的代表，死而复活, 好叫bwin体育这蒙神拣选的人, 因圣灵而重生, and by faith identified with Christ in His death and resurrection might be restored to fellowship with God in the Holy Spirit and enabled to glorify God actively in our lives. 作为有信仰的基督徒, having realized our union with Christ and hence our own death to sin and rising to newness of life in the Spirit, we renounce self-centeredness as a lifestyle and seek in every phase of our experience to understand and reflect God's glory.

基督教的宇宙观.
宇宙, 是上帝的创造, serves to reveal God; and its revelation is true, 有效的, 本身就很有用. 被创造的宇宙, 神的荣耀充满了, 就是被理解, 欣赏, 被bwin体育统治和使用. God in his goodness has bestowed upon us the ability to discover and use truths about the universe, 无论一个人与他的属灵关系如何. 试图从各个维度去理解宇宙的真相, bwin体育有责任使用每一种力量和努力, but the facts of the universe can be understood in the fullest sense only when viewed in relationship to God. 最终的审判必须在神的话语中做出, 圣经, 真理的唯一适当而准确的标准是什么.

基督教教育的目的

因为bwin体育被造是要荣耀神, Christian education seeks to develop the students' abilities to know God and to relate themselves and the created universe to God through the study of His Word and Works. Christian education emphasizes the Person and Work of the Lord 耶稣基督 in order that students may be yielded to Him as their Savior from sin, 使他们在基督里看到整个宇宙的最终目的和意义.

It is the purpose of Christian education to seek the realization of the potential of the individual as the image of God through the development of God-given capacities. The fulfillment of those potentialities is reached insofar as students devote those capacities to God's glory in their vocations and daily lives. Christian education endeavors to develop each student's capacity for the enjoyment of the world as God's creation, 文化的丰富性, realizing that all of life as a coherent whole is related to God and His redemptive activity. 基督教教育的目标是培养成熟的学生, 作为个人, have well-integrated personalities; and who, 作为社会的良好成员, 在家里建造神的国吗, 教会, 国家和世界.

基督教教育的意义

对学校的影响.
All persons responsible in any way for the functioning of an educational institution share in the pursuit of its goals. 在基督教教育中，这一点变得尤为重要，因为没有任务, 教学或其他, is unrelated to God; and also because all personnel should demonstrate in their lives an end-purpose of Christian education. 每个人都分享知识的传播, but only those consciously committed to 耶稣基督 as revealed in the Scriptures can envision and reach the goals of Christian education. To realize the goals of Christian education all faculty members should seek to understand more completely and to teach more effectively their particular disciplines with academic excellence within a consistent biblical world and life view.

对学生的影响.
而学生可以通过给予所有人的恩典而获得高度的知识, 以达到基督教教育的目标, 他们必须顺服耶稣基督的人, 这样罪及其在他们自身人格中的影响就会被克服. 学生, 作为上帝的创造物, are under His mandate both to learn and to apply all knowledge for the purpose of knowing and glorifying God. 他们不应该受到非基督教观点的庇护, 但必须能够批判性地评价所有的知识, 从真理中获得知识，摒弃错误. 学生 should be aware of God's call on their lives and thus see their education as an opportunity to prepare for their life work, 无论你努力的领域是什么.

对课程的启示.
In Christian education the curriculum is built upon the foundation that the historic Christian Faith is permanently true, 它是一个真正的基督教教育项目的整合因素. 因为基督教的教育引导人们理解上帝, 人类与宇宙的相互联系, 课程将着重强调人文和科学, 理论和应用, 也是圣经研究的基本核心. The curriculum should lead students to grasp the foundations of learning so that they can live a life glorifying to God, 诚实自信地面对新知识带来的问题和挑战, 为上帝庇佑下的社会福利做贡献.

对道德纪律的影响.
道德纪律的标准必须根据上帝的道德律来维持, 就是他在圣经上所写的吗. 因此，要在神话语的基础上操练纪律. 用基督徒的爱和坚定来操练纪律，不仅能阻止淫乱, but also teaches in principle how to live under Christ's Lordship and how to live with other people on the basis of righteousness. Moral discipline must always be exercised in an attitude of helping the offender in the context of the doctrine of sin and its solution in 耶稣基督.