Why the Criticism of American Christian Education
Widely permeating modern Christendom is a certain doctrine pertaining to the "last days" which leads men to believe that the cause of Christ is lost in The Christian Era. No wonder belief in Him is rendered desperately impotent, for Christ is Himself impotent in the face of this world’s evil and the author of evil; however, for one to suggest that anything related to Christ can be a "lost cause" is only remarkably incredulous. The cause of Christ in The Christian Era is to demonstrate His power in the life of the individual, in spite of the flesh, sin and the devil. The Father shall glorify His Only Begotten and Beloved Son just as the Father promised.
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The reasons for refusing the philosophy of American Christian education stem from unbelief in God as Divine Providence, Christianity’s form of government—individual self-government, and the low quality of Biblical reasoning existing within modern Christendom. One may define the opposition by the following noticeable points of unbelief:
1.
There is an unspoken and implied denying of God ruling and overruling in all the affairs of men and nations; and, instead, there is among modern thinkers an insidious suggestion and belief in the surety of Satan’s dominion in "the last days." Since when will Satan ever have dominion over God? How may good be overcome with evil? Have we questioned the Marxist historians from which most modern Christians have received their American history since the turn of the Twentieth Century?
2.
Popular opinion is denying the power of Christ in the life of the individual, or that individual self government can exist in the world inundated with false teaching and wickedness: in other words, socialism is inevitable. The world has always been inundated with false teaching and wickedness; nothing but degeneration in all spheres of life and living could exist before Christ entered history and brought regeneration, when "all things became new" and "old things are passed away." In this Christian Era all power of the Father is transferred to His Son. Christ brought His form of government, self-government, into history and made it the cornerstone of the Constitution of the United States of America in 1789. Self-government is born out of Gospel liberty; individual liberty, which, when matured, He planted in the wilderness of America in 1620.
3.
Popular opinion is also denying the simplicity and sufficiency of Biblical education; for its not being in compliance with tradition, custom, and habit in content and methods and is, therefore, deficient in matters presumably important: test scores, college prep and admissions; acceptance by the "real" world; earning high wages and positions, etc. American Christians are yet to repent from following the vain imaginations of secularized education and return to instructing their sons and daughters in "the wonderful works of God," which past generations have laid aside. The Constitution of the United States grew out of a people who, for over 150 years, were educated in the Scriptures, who learned to obey no law which was unlawful, under God, to obey. American Christians cannot remember what they have forgotten.
Courtesy of philomathfoundation.com
Philomath Foundation was founded by Miss Katherine Dang of Pleasanton, California. It is a non-profit, religious foundation established to propagate the ideas of Providential history, self-government, and Christian education through the dissemination of teaching and study materials, American Christian Education seminars, history and government study groups, youth and adult classes, and the encouragement of all in the understanding of the God of Providential history and creation.
About the Founder & President:
"Katherine Dang’s extraordinary contribution to this millennium is to restore the Providential Interpretation of History and to encourage the contemporary Christian to judge of and deal with the affairs of the modern world… As a Chinese American Christian, Miss Dang has become one of the most erudite thinkers and expositors of Christ, His Story, in this age. How gracious God is to raise up a woman whose ancient heritage is China, ‘A complete and unmixed despotism’, and to prepare her to become the foremost American Christian historian since Miss Verna Hall to document and elucidate the Perfect Law of Liberty in the subject of Universal History."
After receiving an undergraduate degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970, with her faith in Jesus Christ and the Word of God intact, Miss Dang was subsequently introduced to the Biblical principles and reasoning that distinguish America’s Christian history, government and education by Verna Hall and Rosalie Slater of the Foundation for American Christian Education. Subsequently, she began teaching at the pilot school in Hayward, CA under the direction of James Rose. Within the next 25 years, Miss Dang became a Master Teacher of teachers as these principles and ideas were taught, illustrated, and demonstrated in the classroom and later to the 50-member faculty of her own church-school of nearly 800 K-12 grade students. Retiring from the Christian day-school ministry in 1995, she dedicated herself to writing and compiling a four-volume work on Universal History from Creation to the present – the first two volumes of which were published in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Currently, Miss Dang is President of the non-profit religious and educational Philomath Foundation, Founder of Philomath Publications, home school consultant, conference speaker, and author.
Miss Dang teaches groups of home school parents and youth in 14 California cities. When she consults with individual families, parents acknowledge her unique ability to encourage, embolden, and give hope of success because she knows how to cancel the fear of achieving commonly accepted but unreasonable and unbiblical expectations for children. Gifted with the capacity to evaluate a student’s attitudes, disposition, and qualities of thought; equipped with practical curriculum ideas, outlines and resources of her own making; and tested by over 35 years of classroom/counseling experience, Miss Dang simplifies both the Biblical path and the goals for self-education and self-government. She occasionally accepts invitations to teach the philosophy, curriculum and methods of American Christian Education to assemblies throughout the country.
Philomath Foundation is dedicated to advancing the Biblical principles and ideas of American Christian history, government, and education and their applications in today’s world, concentrating specifically on serving the educational needs of the American Christian home and church through:
Adult study groups
Seminars
Curriculum materials, etc.
Consultant services
Courses for youth and adults
In America an education in Biblical principles produced the greatest liberty for the individual the world has ever known. Individual liberty is the basis of individual self-government, the cornerstone of America’s Constitutional Federal Republic. It is the responsibility of the American Christian to restore self-government to each of America’s governmental institutions: the home, the church, and civil government. For, if modern day American Christians will turn away from “faith in the all powerful State” to “belief in the absolute power of God,” they will, again, testify of the power of Christ in the life of the individual.
Widely permeating modern Christendom is a certain doctrine pertaining to the "last days" which leads men to believe that the cause of Christ is lost in The Christian Era. No wonder belief in Him is rendered desperately impotent, for Christ is Himself impotent in the face of this world’s evil and the author of evil; however, for one to suggest that anything related to Christ can be a "lost cause" is only remarkably incredulous. The cause of Christ in The Christian Era is to demonstrate His power in the life of the individual, in spite of the flesh, sin and the devil. The Father shall glorify His Only Begotten and Beloved Son just as the Father promised.
Click Here For Printable PDF Version
The reasons for refusing the philosophy of American Christian education stem from unbelief in God as Divine Providence, Christianity’s form of government—individual self-government, and the low quality of Biblical reasoning existing within modern Christendom. One may define the opposition by the following noticeable points of unbelief:
1.
There is an unspoken and implied denying of God ruling and overruling in all the affairs of men and nations; and, instead, there is among modern thinkers an insidious suggestion and belief in the surety of Satan’s dominion in "the last days." Since when will Satan ever have dominion over God? How may good be overcome with evil? Have we questioned the Marxist historians from which most modern Christians have received their American history since the turn of the Twentieth Century?
2.
Popular opinion is denying the power of Christ in the life of the individual, or that individual self government can exist in the world inundated with false teaching and wickedness: in other words, socialism is inevitable. The world has always been inundated with false teaching and wickedness; nothing but degeneration in all spheres of life and living could exist before Christ entered history and brought regeneration, when "all things became new" and "old things are passed away." In this Christian Era all power of the Father is transferred to His Son. Christ brought His form of government, self-government, into history and made it the cornerstone of the Constitution of the United States of America in 1789. Self-government is born out of Gospel liberty; individual liberty, which, when matured, He planted in the wilderness of America in 1620.
3.
Popular opinion is also denying the simplicity and sufficiency of Biblical education; for its not being in compliance with tradition, custom, and habit in content and methods and is, therefore, deficient in matters presumably important: test scores, college prep and admissions; acceptance by the "real" world; earning high wages and positions, etc. American Christians are yet to repent from following the vain imaginations of secularized education and return to instructing their sons and daughters in "the wonderful works of God," which past generations have laid aside. The Constitution of the United States grew out of a people who, for over 150 years, were educated in the Scriptures, who learned to obey no law which was unlawful, under God, to obey. American Christians cannot remember what they have forgotten.
Courtesy of philomathfoundation.com
Philomath Foundation was founded by Miss Katherine Dang of Pleasanton, California. It is a non-profit, religious foundation established to propagate the ideas of Providential history, self-government, and Christian education through the dissemination of teaching and study materials, American Christian Education seminars, history and government study groups, youth and adult classes, and the encouragement of all in the understanding of the God of Providential history and creation.
About the Founder & President:
"Katherine Dang’s extraordinary contribution to this millennium is to restore the Providential Interpretation of History and to encourage the contemporary Christian to judge of and deal with the affairs of the modern world… As a Chinese American Christian, Miss Dang has become one of the most erudite thinkers and expositors of Christ, His Story, in this age. How gracious God is to raise up a woman whose ancient heritage is China, ‘A complete and unmixed despotism’, and to prepare her to become the foremost American Christian historian since Miss Verna Hall to document and elucidate the Perfect Law of Liberty in the subject of Universal History."
After receiving an undergraduate degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970, with her faith in Jesus Christ and the Word of God intact, Miss Dang was subsequently introduced to the Biblical principles and reasoning that distinguish America’s Christian history, government and education by Verna Hall and Rosalie Slater of the Foundation for American Christian Education. Subsequently, she began teaching at the pilot school in Hayward, CA under the direction of James Rose. Within the next 25 years, Miss Dang became a Master Teacher of teachers as these principles and ideas were taught, illustrated, and demonstrated in the classroom and later to the 50-member faculty of her own church-school of nearly 800 K-12 grade students. Retiring from the Christian day-school ministry in 1995, she dedicated herself to writing and compiling a four-volume work on Universal History from Creation to the present – the first two volumes of which were published in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Currently, Miss Dang is President of the non-profit religious and educational Philomath Foundation, Founder of Philomath Publications, home school consultant, conference speaker, and author.
Miss Dang teaches groups of home school parents and youth in 14 California cities. When she consults with individual families, parents acknowledge her unique ability to encourage, embolden, and give hope of success because she knows how to cancel the fear of achieving commonly accepted but unreasonable and unbiblical expectations for children. Gifted with the capacity to evaluate a student’s attitudes, disposition, and qualities of thought; equipped with practical curriculum ideas, outlines and resources of her own making; and tested by over 35 years of classroom/counseling experience, Miss Dang simplifies both the Biblical path and the goals for self-education and self-government. She occasionally accepts invitations to teach the philosophy, curriculum and methods of American Christian Education to assemblies throughout the country.
Philomath Foundation is dedicated to advancing the Biblical principles and ideas of American Christian history, government, and education and their applications in today’s world, concentrating specifically on serving the educational needs of the American Christian home and church through:
Adult study groups
Seminars
Curriculum materials, etc.
Consultant services
Courses for youth and adults
In America an education in Biblical principles produced the greatest liberty for the individual the world has ever known. Individual liberty is the basis of individual self-government, the cornerstone of America’s Constitutional Federal Republic. It is the responsibility of the American Christian to restore self-government to each of America’s governmental institutions: the home, the church, and civil government. For, if modern day American Christians will turn away from “faith in the all powerful State” to “belief in the absolute power of God,” they will, again, testify of the power of Christ in the life of the individual.
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