Culture and the Integration of Christian Faith and Learning

Abstract

The contemporary world is confronted with the excesses of an accelerated drifting away from the centrality of faith in God. There is an increased appeal and pull into postmodernism and the extremes of faithlessness championed by secularism. The onslaught against the relevance and validity of faith in God is one of the principal reasons for the urgency in calling for a watertight move to integrate faith and learning in Christian universities. Indeed this is pivotal to the Christian university which is supposed to be responsive to Christ's charge that the faithful is the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Mathew 5:13-16). The university must therefore embrace a culture which would make it normal and thus part of its operations to facilitate and nurture the student to grow in four critical domains, namely faith, heart (emotional), soul and intellectual capacity (Harris, 2009; Mathew 22: 37-38).