Keep the Faith: On Education & Secular Culture

How did Christian education collapse in the West? And how do we rebuild it?

For generations, Christians assumed that education was neutral. It wasn’t. As secular philosophies slowly replaced biblical foundations, entire generations drifted from the faith.

In Keep the Faith, Kevin Swanson takes readers back through two thousand years of church history to examine how Christians once approached education — and where the modern church went wrong.

Drawing on the wisdom of pastors, theologians, and church leaders from across the centuries, this book challenges modern assumptions and calls parents and educators back to a thoroughly biblical vision of education and discipleship.

If we want to keep the faith for future generations, we must rebuild education on the foundation that sustained Christians for centuries: the Word of God.

 

In this book you will discover:

• Why modern education often undermines Christian faith

• What the early church believed about education and discipleship

• How secular philosophies reshaped Western education

• Why the Bible must be the foundation for all learning

• How parents can recover a distinctly Christian approach to educating their children

 

Featuring quotations from Christian leaders throughout history

This book includes original source quotations from:

Clement • Polycarp • Justin Martyr • Ignatius • Barnabas • Lactantius • The Didache • Eusebius • Jerome • Chrysostom • Augustine • Bede • Martin Luther • John Calvin • Richard Baxter • Increase Mather • John Wesley • A.A. Hodge • Charles Hodge • J. Gresham Machen • and many more.

These voices from across the centuries remind us that the church has wrestled with these questions before—and their wisdom is desperately needed again today.

 

A revised and expanded edition

Keep the Faith: On Education & Secular Culture is a newly revised and expanded edition of the earlier title Keep the Faith: On Education, now updated with additional material addressing the challenges of modern secular culture.