FOREWORD xiii society more nearly Christian.”5 As Ludwig contended, if higher education is not driven by Christian principles and infused with Christian ideas, then people can “can lose their sense of ‘belongingness’ and become isolated units with no chart to guide.” Christian education sets a different course and in so doing forwards the most holistic thinking of the current day and has an opportunity to chart a new vision of the future (both personal and corporate). Ludwig continued, “It is the function of the church college in our disintegrating society to so present Christ and teach principles of His culture in every phase of the curriculum, until the incoming power of His spirit can change lives andmake thema part of God’s great program.”6 What Ludwig later asserted as a need is a collection of faculty who have a “high sense of life purpose” to this calling of changing lives and thought patterns. Cedarville University gathers a faculty who allow the purposes of God to prompt and sustain their labors. The impact of this Christian approach to education is immediate on students, has a long-term effect on society, and will bear fruit in eternity. Careful Bible reading and the synthesis of biblical texts into a theological view of reality prompts the task of biblical integration in literature and laboratories for God’s glory. 5 S.T. Ludwig, “The Church College in a Changing Culture.” Vital Speeches of the Day 17, no. 2 (November 1950): 56. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost, 58. 6 Ibid.
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