Comparing Hauerwas And Boyer

Hauerwas and Boyer do a great job in introducing Messiah college to its students. One of the main points in the two writers writings is the emphasis on the need for a broad education for Messiah College students. When emphasizing on a broad education Hauerwas focuses on showing the importance of Christianity in secular disciplines, while Boyer emphasizes the roles of secular disciplines in the Christian faith. Hauerwas and Boyer have different views in showing the connection between a broad education and the Christian faith in areas such as, reaching out to the world, application of faith in life, and the connectedness of things.
When talking about reaching out to people who are not of Christian faith, Hauerwas and Boyer emphasizes broad education in two different ways. …show more content…
Hauerwas emphasizes that the importance of a broad education to Christians is so that it will allow us to be the leaven in the lump of academia. Also, hauerwas argues that being a Christian does not depend on being educated. According to Hauoewas, it is important to recognize that college should not create an illusion that being smart and well educated is the be-all and end-all of life. On the other hand, when Boyer is making a point regarding the connectedness of things, he argues that for students to understand life and live well, they must think that there is a connection between the so-called secular and the sacred. According to Boyer, one of the things that identify Messiah college from other colleges is the conviction in the search for connections between the secular and the sacred. Boyer supports his argument by the suggesting that the main reason S. R. Smith sought to find connections between Michelangelo and king David is because all truth, sacred or secular are considered the same. Therefore, Hauerwas and Boyer focused on different aspects of connectedness of things when emphasizing on a broad