Traction on Reality: The Thinking behind Reformed Christian Schools

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Traction on Reality: The Thinking behind Reformed Christian Schools 1 REFORMED CHRISTIANS affirm this life, this world, this culture and seek to integrate faith and life in a seamless whole and to be culturally-engaged in a way that makes the world a better place for everyone. They therefore seek forms of schooling that enable students to radically and profoundly improve society. They ground their perspective in the idea of God's covenant with his people which requires the Christian community to bring children up in a vision of God's purpose of human and creational flourishing. Reformed education has three goals: conservation of the Christian worldview, inquiry into all aspects of life and the world and reform of culture through lives of discipleship.

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“…Religious education has the basic goal of shaping the Islamic personality in humans as individual and social beings. Religious education based on the Qur'an and Hadith must be given in such a way that the experience of religious teachings can be preserved by students in the realities of personal and community life (Vryhof, S. 2002;Ahmad, M., Muniroh, S. M., & Mahmudah, 2021).. This is supported by various efforts and activities that are expected to be a place to practice applying the accepted religious subject matter.…”