You can read an earlier article about the school here and you may find the school website there. The mission statement of the school reads this way:
The vision of Holy Trinity Classical Christian School is:
1. To equip our students to think critically, reason clearly, and communicate effectively the inerrant Word of God as it applies in all areas of life;
2. To place prayer and worship at the center of their lives as they develop a biblical worldview;
3. To master the tools of grammar, logic, and rhetoric in order to proclaim and defend the Gospel with clarity and commitment; and
4. To send them into the world, prepared to advance the Kingdom of God, viewing life through the lens of Christianity.
Classical? Trivium? Where’s the Latin, then?
I like very much of what’s being done here. There is a definite need for the church to be more involved in education beyond church school and such. I’m curious to know why anyone within the Anglican heritage would think it necessary, however, to use the word “inerrant.” Seems to be borrowing a hot-button word from another tradition without warrant. In terms of the Scriptures, give me “contains all things necessary to salvation.”
As they say in Scotland, Ah hae ma doots. If you are educated immersed in the thinking advocated here, will you be able to achieve its aims of defending and commending biblical Christianity? To do so you have to have some understanding of where people are coming from who differ from you, what their mindset is, so that you can present the eternal truths of Christ in a way that makes sense to them. Paul, after all, said that he became a Greek to Greeks, a Jew to Jews, did he not? What is proposed at this school sounds rather narrowing.
This sounds wonderful to me. With the USA public education system a shambles, there has been a move, over the past 20 years of so, toward Christian education with a classical base. My home church (LCMS) had such education in the ’40s & ’50s. I had the benefit of that education for 7 years and am still using information I learned in that school that I would never have received in the public schools. Colorado Springs has had a Christian School (Evangelical), based on the classical method, for many years; the graduates are uniformly successful in higher education. 1998 – 2000, I taught in a beginning LCMS high school based on the same model. I wish Holy Trinity God’s blessing. It is very difficult to begin such a school; I pray they will succeed!
Terry, one man’s narrow is another man’s deep. A few things learnt *really well is infinitely better than skating over a multitude of things that will soon e forgotten. So I hope they will teach Latin in this school, for there’s no better way to enrich a child’s vocabulary and understand how Indo-European languages work, as well as grasping one of the great fountainheads of European civilization. E. D. Hirsch is pretty hot on cultural literacy and content, and this school seems serious about that. But do teach Latin!
RE: “I’m curious to know why anyone within the Anglican heritage would think it necessary, however, to use the word “inerrant.â€
Perhaps because many of us believe the Holy Scriptures to be inerrant — as carefully defined by inerrantists.
RE: “If you are educated immersed in the thinking advocated here, will you be able to achieve its aims of defending and commending biblical Christianity? To do so you have to have some understanding of where people are coming from who differ from you, what their mindset is, so that you can present the eternal truths of Christ in a way that makes sense to them.”
Actually, a part of the training in rhetoric *is* about understanding where people are coming from, even though one has a superior education, so that one may communicate with them in ways that make sense to them. I don’t see that having an excellent and classical education would make somebody unlikely to be able to speak with others who didn’t have that chance.
They’d better edit their website and correct the spelling and grammar (noting the second “a”) problems. Even though they may have hired someone to write the website copy for them, misspelled words and awkward sentence structure reflect poorly on a school.