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Do Children of the 'Unequally Yoked' Do Worse?

Plus: Ultimate questions about colleges' core curriculum and other news from the higher education world.

Hunter Baker | posted 10/11/2007 10:21AM

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The older humanities professors did not always agree with each other, but they believed in the significance of their disagreements because they were thought to be statements about reality. Not so today. The only agreement is that there is no final truth, no ultimate affirmation, no final cause, and no value in religious affirmations that suppose that there are. The search is the end; the questions are all one has. Kronman's animus against religious conviction is his animus against any fixed and final absolute. When "truth" is person-specific, the Great Conversation is reduced to the Great Monologue.

Kronman's broader point about the value of the humanities is utterly valid: The state of the core curriculum at America's colleges and universities is poor.

More News

Homeschoolers are a big group … and in big demand by colleges! (Chronicle of Higher Education, subscription required)

Oral Roberts University has been severely besieged by a variety of scandals (ABC News)

The Cardinal Newman Society has issued a new guide to faithful Catholic colleges (Cardinal Newman Society)

Hunter Baker is special assistant to the president and director of strategic planning at Houston Baptist University. Got a tip regarding academic research or higher education? E-mail him at hunterbaker@gmail.com.

Related Elsewhere:

Previous Evangelical Minds columns include:

Church, State, and the Founding of America | Plus: Studying pagans, humanities vs. religion, and more. (September 27, 2007)

Christian Smith on Why Christianity 'Works' | Plus: Baylor publishing woes, and other news from the higher education world. (September 13, 2007)

David Dockery on Christian Higher Ed's Key Challenges | Plus: Fearing secularization and "fundamentalization" and whether "Christian economics" exist. (August 30, 2007)

Why College Doesn't Turn Kids Secular | Also: Richard Land on the footbath controversy, Falwell's big Liberty gift, and other stories about higher education and research. (August 16, 2007)

Christian Higher Education Goes to Russia | Plus: One more argument against U.S. News rankings, and Silver Ring Thing goes to Harvard. (August 2, 2007)

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jegreen3

Posted: October 18, 2007 12:48 PM


I didn't even bother to read the whole article, because the assumption is that all religions are the same, and of equal worth. What good does it do, that my child has a perfect childhood, and ends up in hell because he chose Buddha over Jesus. Unequally yoked marraiges are spiritually damaging to ALL INVOLVED. A Christian that knowingly marries a non-Christian is a lukewarm Christian at best.

Ted Voth Jr

Posted: October 11, 2007 4:53 PM

What does religion mean? Different religions? Are we talking Christianity and the world's great religions, or are we talking Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism v Protestantism, or Fundamentalism v Liberalism, or Lutheran v Baptist, or Missouri Synod Lutheran v Wisconsin Synod v ELCA? "Wisconsin speaks only to Missouri, and Missouri speaks only to God", to paraphrase the old Boston doggerel. I'm wondering whether that these scientific students of religion are sensitive to these homoousian/homoiousian distinctions.

Jim Timerson

Posted: October 11, 2007 3:23 PM

Soooo, we rate self asteem, behavior, drug & alcohol abuse, higher than loving obedience to the Holy Spirit who moved the Apostle Paul to write that 'command'? I know personally that if a man & woman obey the Lord in their seeking a spouse that it does not guarentee that their children will be model Christians, but that does not nor should not keep anyone from their seeking what the LORD says on the issues & pray for an obedient heart!

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