2009 Annual Meeting: Engaging Culture Through Biblical Thinking

ABHE’s 62nd Annual Meeting will be held February 19-21 at the very popular 2008 meeting venue, The Florida Hotel and Conference Center at the Florida Mall. The meeting will feature plenary speakers, a pre-convention workshop, and a special workshop track exploring, through the theme of Engaging Culture Through Biblical Thinking, the implications of ABHE members’ commitment to ensure that their educational offerings are pervasively and intentionally biblical. We engage in biblical higher education – education that involves extensive and serious study of the text of God’s eternal Word, not in a posture of detachment and skepticism, but in a posture discipleship and submission, seeking to understand the will of God so that we may conform to it, and the plan of God so that we may join Him in bringing about its fulfillment. This engagement with Scripture ensures that the formation of a Christian worldview issues not merely from sincere devotion to Christ, but also out of a comprehensive grasp of biblical teaching and a well-honed and growing ability to bring sound theological thinking to bear upon every aspect of experience and empirical observation.

Alarming declines in biblical literacy and the resurgence in North America of neo-pagan ideologies and spirituality confront our institutions and their internal and external stakeholders. Powerful reality-defining cultural mechanisms call for truth to be forfeited in the name of tolerance. These trends and others require ABHE institutional boards, executive and academic leaders, and faculty members to renew their commitment and hone their capacity for cultivating biblical thinking that engages the present and future cultural milieu. We need to help students learn to recognize competing cultural assumptions and truth claims and to develop the capacity to formulate a thoughtful biblical witness in the face of shifting cultural and ideological realities.

Plenary Speakers
Dr. J.P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University
Sample J.P. Moreland’s extensive resources for loving God with your mind by visiting http://afterall.net/citizens/moreland/

Dr. Woodrow Kroll, President, Back to the Bible
Sample Back to the Bible’s research on biblical literacy & engagement by visiting
http://www.centerforbibleengagement.org/

Dr. Peter Jones, Executive Director, Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet
Sample this prophetic biblical worldview ministry by visiting www.truthxchange.com


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