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In this text, Rushdoony—a major advocate of Christian homeschooling—discusses Christian curriculum. He works from the principle that curriculum cannot be neutral—suggesting that it is either a course in humanism or training in a God-centered faith and life. The liberal arts curriculum means literally that course which trains students in the arts of freedom. This raises the key question: is...

social approval is the best test of law. This standard leads inevitably to the socialization of life, law, and living, because man must move in terms of man as his god and law. Instead of declaring God to be the universal, man becomes the universal and the source of meaning and being. “The medieval saint was virtuous in the desert also. The invisible eyes of God hovered above him. Universal Man needs society in order to display his virtues. His realm is only of this world.”10 Thus, wherever education
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