Christianity. Science. Education

  1. Lemma
  2. Христианство. Наука. Образование
  3. Russian
  4. Saprykin, Dmitry
  5. Education, Science and Orthodoxy
  6. 2004
  7. Рыжов Василий [Author]. Christianity. Science. Education
  8. Христианство. Наука. Образование : Christianity. Science. Education
  9. Secular education - religious education - humanism
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    1. This work is devoted to a comparative analysis of educational programs for the professional education of youth in a Christian educational institution on the basis of Christian world view and the same programs in a secular educational institution on the basis of humanistic atheistic worldview.

      Under the worldview the author means any ideological, philosophical, theological systems that offer their approach to a global understanding of God, the world and the relationship of man to God and the world. More specifically, the world view is determined by the views on the following disciplines: theology, philosophy, biology, ethics, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics and history. In addition, a certain worldview always lies at the base of any other discipline, defining not only the content, but the very process of its teaching.

      Based on the analysis of the First and Second Humanist Manifestoes, the author argues that secular evolutionary humanism (atheism, materialism) is also, in essence, a religious worldview, because it is based on its own theology, denying God and everything supernatural, although it resolutely does not recognize its religiosity and that is why, perhaps, remains dominant in secular educational institutions. This denial, however, leads to another unavoidable conclusion: the highest authority is man, and God definitely impedes man proclaiming his self-sufficiency. Divine attributes are also ascribed to nature as an instance originally self-existent, eternal, self-organizing and giving the beginning to everything. Unfortunately for a humanist (atheist, materialist), the author considers, this theology deprives his existence of meaning and purpose.