FOREWORD xi knowledge. Along these lines, George Guthrie contends, “God’s revelation is preserved through his inspiration of the Scripture. Thus, every area of human life and inquiry has at its foundation the reality reflected by God’s revelation in Scripture. Therefore, Scripture forms the appropriate beginning point for shaping a worldview.”2 A “biblical” worldview begins with an understanding of God and how humans can know him. The one, true God has revealed Himself definitively in the biblical texts. The Bible not only reveals God’s true nature, but also depicts His activity as consistent with His being. So, to study the biblical text’s depiction and explanation of God’s work, is to have access to God, His truth, and His purposes. The Bible begins with God as the creator of all things. The biblical account of creation is then foundational for every understanding of reality from a biblical worldview. The Scriptures assert that a failure to recognize God as creator, will skew every accomplishment of human knowledge and will darken every motive of human ingenuity. A central element to a biblical worldview is to see life and reality through the biblical wisdom gleaned from God’s character and purposes as revealed in the Bible, an expressly theological task. A theological vision for integration that prioritizes the place of the biblical texts as revelation should ultimately result in an engagement with all disciplines and fields for the sake of the glory of God. Biblical Integration as Central to Christian Higher Education The scholar (or student) with this biblical-theological mindset can pursue and communicate wisdom in predominately “secular” academic fields. This pursuit and communication require penetrating the citadel of contemporary “knowledge” and brings every thought captive in service to others and for the sake of God’s glory (2 Cor. 10:3-5). The mind that has been “renewed” or trained by biblical theology drawn from the biblical texts “sees” and “hears” things differently. 2 George Guthrie, “The Authority of Scripture” in David Dockery and Gregory Alan Thornbury (eds.), Shaping a Christian Worldview: The Foundations of Christian Higher Education, (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2002), 28.
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