Uneducated Brethren Analysis

This quote by C.S. Lewis makes it clear that Christian scholars have a responsibility to protect what C.S. Lewis refers to as “our uneducated brethren” (Eckel, 14). This raises two additional questions, first, who are these uneducated brethren? The future is predicated on the past. As Dr. Eckel (p. 6) notes, it is impossible to say why a person or group of people exists without simultaneously remembering why. This suggests that the uneducated brethren include those who have forgotten the past, and therefore lost their present identity, future hope, and responsibility (Eckel, 7). However, the uneducated could even be a church leader or pastor. God through the Holy Spirit has uniquely gifted church leaders with the different gifts needed …show more content…
C.S. Lewis’ quote offers up one possible way, through good philosophy (Eckel, 14). What does philosophy have to do with religion? Pearcey (p. 25) would argue everything because both religion and philosophy answer the same questions, namely, how man got here, what went wrong and how to fix the mess. How is a bad philosophy identified? Again Pearcey (p. 108) answers, in short, bad philosophies have to make a leap of faith at some point in order to make the philosophy work in real world circumstances. This leap is identified when an individual has to jump from facts to faith, the “two-story truth” (Pearcey, 21), by affirming a set of values inconsistent with the philosophical ideals. Christianity is uniquely qualified to answer all bad philosophies because it is grounded in facts that remain consistent with human experience (Pearcey, 395). A Biblical world view founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ assures that all men are protected by the educated. Dr. Eckel states that learning precedes living (p. 12). Therefore students must give themselves to acquiring knowledge because knowledge is the foundation future activity. The principles learned in this season are needed to guide how the knowledge gained here is practiced later (Eckel,