Date
5-23-2025
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Theology and Apologetics (PhD)
Chair
Robert Talley
Keywords
education, public education, secular education, two kingdoms theology, Christian educators, Christian teachers, multicultural classroom, secular schools, public schools, redemptive kingdom, common kingdom education, redeemed educator, secular instruction, kingdom education, redeemed teacher
Disciplines
Education | Religion
Recommended Citation
Craddock, Brett Austin, "The Opening of the American Mind: The Christian Educator's Involvement in Public Education" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6916.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6916
Abstract
Two kingdoms theology has impacted the church and guided individual believers in various aspects of their personal lives. Religious leaders, ministers, and Christians founded the American education system. The public education system of America now serves a multicultural population of students. The works of Charles Taylor and Allan Bloom highlight changes that have occurred in the 21st century and have impacted education. The misapplication of a two kingdoms theology perspective may have caused Christian educators to leave the secular classrooms. Christian educators as redemptive citizens may serve in the secular, multicultural classrooms across America to provide unintrusive education for all the students that the American secular schools serve. The Christian educator may provide beneficial instruction in natural sciences, humanities, and literature in the secular classroom by taking small steps that will encourage the students to search for answers that the secular curriculum leaves unanswered.
