Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:01:26 PM
‘Why should a scientist know something of Shakespeare, or a student of foreign languages take geometry? Why study a foreign tongue at all when everybody in the world now speaks English? Why should a degree of familiarity with the Bible be expected of any but pre-ministerial students?‘ –Paul Greenberg
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2010/06/09/who_killed_scholarship
Most scientific disciplines have been given English names compounded from two Greek roots, one meaning “organized study,” the other referring to the object of study. Biology is the study of life; geology is the study of the earth, and so on. The ending of each of these words is from the Greek logos, meaning “word.” As a proper name, it is identified in Scripture with the Lord Jesus Christ, as the living Word of God, the Creator of all things (John 1:1–3).
It is providential that Christ should be thus indirectly identified with the study of His creation. Biology is the science of life, and Christ himself is “life” (John 14:6). Geology is the science of the earth, and He is the Creator of the ends of the earth (Isa. 40:28). We could speak of the many others sciences, but all must ultimately be ascribed to Christ, for in Him “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). “By Him were all things created” (Col. 1:16), and He “upholds all things by the word of his power” (Heb. 1:3).
So it follows inescapably that true knowledge of any component of the creation must depend ultimately on the knowledge of Christ and His Word.
Therefore, the most important of all sciences is theology, the study of God. Theology, in fact, once was honored as “the queen of sciences,” though it has lost this position of public esteem in [this age of autonomous science]. http://nwcreation.net/sample_content/biblical-basis.pdf
The rise of autonomy in theology opened the flood gates for the advancement of autonomous man which corrupted the goals of education. The death of scholarship came with a loss of the basis for knowledge and truth.