The first pages of the book offer a discussion of the contemporary challenges that Christ-centered institutions of higher education are facing today. Dockery believes that God and religion have an application to all spheres of human life, including secular ones (3). He suggests that the reformation of the modern order should begin with the expansion of the involvement of religion in the worldview of people. These transformations, in turn, should begin directly with the reform of the higher education system with a greater focus on the study of Christianity.
Tertullian argued that God is a material entity consisting of finer matter. God is at peace with his own mind and also uses Christ and the Holy Spirit as tools to establish his cosmic order. As the founder of Latin Christianity, Tertullian would probably disagree with the transformations that Dockery proposes. As a supporter of the Western Christian Church, this theologian was a champion of traditional principles in the interpretation of the Bible and the role of God in people’s lives. Thus, he would not welcome the need to expand Christianity into the secular spheres of society.
Augustine would probably not support Dockery in his vision of the present state of the world and the purpose of Christianity in it. Augustine believed that everything created by God could not be evil but represents only good. Thus, the suffering, injustice, and disaster that Dockery talks about are not evil and do not need the involvement of Christianity to eliminate (3). Moreover, God tries to give people all the best, while people reject it because of their sins. Thus, Christianity and the expansion of its application in academic circles would not contribute to the elimination of evil on earth since it does not exist, and people are sinful.
Work Cited
Dockery, Davis S. Renewing Minds Serving Church and Society Through Christian Higher Education, Revised and Updated. B&H Publishing Group, 2008.