On Thursday, June 10th at 7:00 PM, Douglas Wilson spoke at The Ambrose School for the first time in over 10 years.  

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Doug Wilson Lecture

Douglas Wilson was the seminal force behind the restoration of classical Christian education in America.  He is a senior fellow of Theology at New St. Andrews College and pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.  Recently, Mr. Wilson was featured on Fox News, in Christianity Today online and across the country as he debates atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”.  

Mr. Wilson spoke on “classical Christian education’s fractious relationship with culture.”  In line with the goals of Dewey, modern education theorists want to minimize the collision of various ideas in the course of a child’s education. That might lead to debate, which might lead to conflict, and that would put sand in the gears of a humanistic society. Because classical Christian educators from Augustine on, have insisted on the antithesis between the City of God and the city of man, this explains the fractious relationship that classical Christian education has had with the outside culture. For us, the presence of this tension does not mean that something has gone wrong.