onto the internet. For example, lectures and tests can be relocated online, allowing classroom
time to be privileged for guiding the students to make the right connections and draw the right
conclusions based on what they've studied prior to class. Torrey also is on the forefront of doing
this very thing. Our students receive four units of credit for three hours of seat time each week
because they do so much work outside of class, much of it online as noted above. When Biola is
able to support us technically, we will replace our streaming audio lectures with video lectures.
We are even discussing videotaping great sessions for each text to put online for students who
miss a session or want to think further about the text.
IV. Why this form of education is essential to the health of the evangelical church
This form of education is essential to the health of evangelicalism, including its ability to
properly define its boundaries. This approach to education has great promise in producing the
kind of thoughtful, loving, and humble "whole souls" that we must have in places of leadership.
Its commitment to read works from many traditional Christian traditions, with an evangelical
theology and hermeneutic, is essential to a proper determination of evangelicalism's boundaries.
A. Content
A Great Books curriculum that combines, in the same class, the study of the Bible and
theology with the study of the great works of the West is well suited to addressing various needs
facing the evangelical church today.
1. We don't care about theology and don't understand why we should
American Christians increasingly care little about theology. This phenomenon may be
more pronounced in places such as Southern California, but it does seem to be the trend today.
Church services are paying less and less attention to theology, and churches are less concerned