Foundations for Faith-Learning Integration

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Foundations for Faith-Learning Integration

• Integrating Faith and Learning
• Coastland University
• Prof. Robert Harris

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The Challenge

• The process of integration is often foreign to
  students
• Necessary background knowledge and skills are
  often missing

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Four Foundation Stones

• A Christian Knowledge Environment
• A Capacity for Self Analysis
• A Decompartmentalized Faith
• Critical Thinking Skills

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Stone 1 A Christian Knowledge Environment

• A Biblical Worldview
• General Aspects
• Truth
• Human Nature
• Biblical Literacy
• Hermeneutic Skills
• Say, mean, apply

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Stone 2 A Capacity for Self-Analysis

• Identity and Source of Values and Beliefs
• Quality of Values and Beliefs
• Consequences of Values and Beliefs
• Basis for Decision Making

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Stone 3 A Decompartmentalized Faith

• Behavior and Belief
• Intellectual and Spiritual
• Fact and Value
• Living Holistically

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Stone 4 Critical Thinking Skills

• Worldview Analysis
• Caution Toward Knowledge Claims
• Credibility Analysis
• Knowledge of Logical Fallacies
• Tests of Coherence and Correspondence

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Bibliography

• Robert Harris, Foundations for Faith-Learning
  Integration at
• www.virtualsalt.com/int/foundations.pdf
• Robert Harris, Evaluating Internet Research
  Sources at
• www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
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