770B-X - Week 2 - Part 1
- 1. IDISC 770x(Online)February 16-22, 2011From the Reformation to 1857 (Part 1)
- 2. A. When did the CRC begin?B. Christian Education— Key issues in the debate:C. The Three MindsStep 1: Review of Week One:
- 3. 1857?
- 4. Reformation?
- 5. Pentecost?
- 6. How about Abraham?A. When did the CRC begin?
- 7. “In its deepest logic Calvinism had already been apprehended by Augustine; had, long before Augustine, been proclaimed to the City of the seven hills by the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans; and from Paul goes back to Israel and its prophets, yea to the tents of the patriarchs.”Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, 33. ThePatriarchs?
- 8. The story of the CRCgoes back to the beginning of God’s covenant dealings with his people. This always serves as a warning to us not to get too caught up in our brief moment in time, in our little place.The Point:
- 9. B. The Key Issues in the Debate About Christian Education
- 10. Parental Responsibility for Children
- 11. Covenant Community’s Responsibility for its Children
- 12. Christ is Lord of all of Life (no privatization of piety)
- 16. Public Education as established civil religion?Christian education as anti-Constantinian (and therefore MORE American?)A thought to ponder:
- 17. To Americanize . . . ?or not . . . ? (or how) ? The Issue:
- 18. From James Bratt, Dutch Calvinism in Modern America.Taken from Henry Zwaanstra, Reformed Thought and Experience in a New World(1973) C. The Three Minds
- 19. The Four Mentalities in West Michigan (Three Minds in CRC Plus RCA)Progressive-AmericanizingAntithetical-ConfessionalStrong: RCA—Hope College---Western Seminary; The LeaderLite: (Bratt’s “Positive Calvinists”); “common grace”; Johannes GroenKuyperianCalvinists: Separate Christian Organizations in all areasConfessional Reformed---Church oriented; Foppe Ten Hoor
- 20. REFERENCE POINT 1: The CRC’s “Three Minds
- 21. Postscript on the “progressive” mind:“[A “progressive” journal, The Leader] showed hostility toward both Catholicism and the CRC’s Christian school movement, sometimes in the same breath. Touched with the millennial optimism of the time, The Leader perceived the world as being less locked in a fundamental tension with the church than flailing in the latter stages of a struggle that Christianity was sure to win.”