"Our religion is a religion of knowledge, not private faith, and we must teach people the ins and outs of knowledge as part of the recovery of our heritage as the sons and daughters of God."
J.P. Moreland, Kingdom Triangle, p. 130
Knowledge is a great treasure, but there is one thing higher than knowledge, and that is understanding... To make sense of information - to understand it - one has to put it into fruitful relationship with other information, and grasp the meaning of that relationship; which implies finding patterns, learning lessons, drawing inferences, and as a result seeing the whole. This task - achieving understanding - is par excellence the task of philosophy.
A.C. Grayling, The Mystery of Things, p. 1
This is precisely what it is to have a Christian worldview: To have knowledge of Christianity and its rich cultural and intellectual heritage, of the Bible, and of God, and to apply it to the whole of one's life. This must be the responsibility of anyone who believes Christianity offers not just salvation, but truth about the world and hope for it found nowhere else.
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