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In working with doctoral students, it is vital to help them find a theoretical foundation to anchor their study to in the beginning stage of their work. As faculty, we encourage them to review the literature, Library resources, and search engine images. What I am wondering and would enjoy discussing is why we do not use a Biblical perspective on a topic area? My work is in the Ed. D. realm with students whose program of study includes organizational leadership with an emphasis on ministry or behavioral health, etc. As faculty (starting with me) and from what I can observe at the administration level, there is a willingness to embrace humanistic perspectives, but we are not pursuing a Biblical worldview on the topics. I am not pointing fingers or condemning anyone, rather making an observation that is alarming from a Christian perspective. Why not use the lens of Proverbs or the teachings of Jesus as the lens for a study? I am reminded of the passage in 1 Corinthians:
"12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
14 But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ."
If we have the mind of Christ, we are not using the Spirit-led thinking about the topics our students are pursuing? I would appreciate your thoughts on this topic.
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