Monthly Archives: August 2013

This is the next installment in our summary or Rushdoony’s Intellectual Schizophrenia. Chapter 4: THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE SCHOOL The Roman Catholic Church teaches that a realm of nature exists in tension with the realm of grace, and … Continue reading →

Chapter 1: “The Enlightenment” One definition of the Renaissance Period is “the transitional movement in Europe between the medieval and modern times beginning in the fourteenth century in Italy and lasting into the seventeenth century, and marked by a humanistic … Continue reading →

This post summarizes Chapter 3 of R. J. Rushdoony’s Intellectual Schizophrenia. Throughout history, education has been accepted as a natural course of life. Today, however, our smug and self-conscious society has become schizophrenic, with one side of man’s mindset “striving … Continue reading →

This post summarizes Chapter 2:  “The Purpose of Knowledge,” from R. J. Rushdoony’s Intellectual Schizophrenia. Francis Bacon’s scientific approach required “an exhaustive collection of particulars in each…inquiry….” (14) The impact of this ideal has resulted in “moral inertia and cowardice” with … Continue reading →

This is the next post on my summary of Rushdoony’s Intellectual Schizophrenia. To understand the humanistic view of teaching the whole child, we must understand the impact of John Locke, who besides being the father of modern psychology was also … Continue reading →

INTRODUCTION This is the first in a series of posts discussing and summarizing Rushdoony’s important book. Stay tuned. Called “brilliant and prophetic” in Samuel Blumenfeld’s Foreword, Intellectual Schizophrenia: Culture, Crisis and Education “was a call to arms for Christians to … Continue reading →