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Wednesday
May052010

Loving God with All Your Mind: Intellectual Rigor and Biblical Faithfulness 

By Jason, M.Ed., M.A.R., Headmaster

Harvard and Yale were both founded with the primary mission of training faithful pastors for ministry. The founders of these schools knew that men needed the highest quality education in order to properly handle God’s Word and apply it to the cultural context of their day. They expected their students to be fluent in Hebrew, Greek and Latin and also to be well versed in the intellectual and philosophical ideas of the day, so they could engage them intelligently and Biblically.

One of the first presidents of Princeton University was Jonathan Edwards, a Yale graduate, who has been called by some the greatest thinker in American history. Edwards is also known as the leading theologian and one of the central preachers of the Great Awakening. As recently as the early 1900’s, Princeton was a leading center of Biblically faithful scholarship, having trained some of the best theologians and pastors in American history.

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