Eric
Enlow
Christian Education and “World Classics”
Increasingly, Christians are looking to the “classic” as a central idea in understanding how to educate their children. What is a classic? How does it relate the idea of authority, particularly in God’s Word? Beginning with Augustine’s discussion of his own education in the classics, Eric will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of classical education while sharing his own favorite Christian classics.
12:00p.m. - 1:00
p.m.
Christian Legal Careers
and Study
The legal judge and the advocate are important
figures in the Bible and still play an important role in modern society.
Christians trained in law, like John Calvin or Charles Finney, have
also played an important role outside the law by bringing their legal
minds and powers of persuasion to bear as teachers or evangelists. Modern
societies desperately need Christians trained in the law who have the
faith to recognize that the laws are given by God’s servants for
the good of the people. Legal education has broader value, regardless
of one’s career, in entrepreneurship, business, home and state.
Basic legal study can provide an important foundation for developing
a business or protecting one’s political rights and basic freedoms.
In this session, Eric will familiarize parents and children with Christian
legal careers, set forth the educational prerequisites of such careers,
discuss the signs of a calling to the law, and suggest materials for
the study of law for general use.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00
p.m.
John
Milton: Four Hundred Years of Inspirational Christian Poetry and Politics
Eric
will provide an introduction to the writings and influence of John Milton,
whose work provides a ready means to teach Christian ideas of political
freedom and poetic beauty. This session will provide participants with
a ready authority respected by Christians and non-Christians alike for
the importance of the Bible in framing all issues of life from poetry
to politics. This year, on the four-hundredth anniversary of his birth
in 1608, friends of liberty and Christian poetry across the world are
celebrating the life and influence of John Milton. In addition to his
famous epic biblical poem (Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained), Milton
authored numerous political tracts in favor of the Puritan political movements
that overthrew a tyrannical king and laid the foundations for modern liberty
in Christian terms (The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The Ready and
Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth and Areopagitica). Familiarity
with these works is important for the Christian family who wishes to nourish
itself with beauty and for participation in public life.
3:10 p.m. - 4:10
p.m.
Christian Legal History
and the Original Rise of the Modern State: Understanding the Times, Part
I of II
In this session, Eric will impart an understanding
of the effect of our times on Christian life by looking at the historic
legal forces that have changed America from a Christian republic into
a government-focused secular state, freeing our families from unconsciously
accepting the laws of men that conflict with God’s law, and identifying
sources for studying the origins and nature of modern tyrannies and sources
for asserting alternative systems of Christian liberty. “To consult
experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who
understood the times” (Esther 1:13). If we want to become wise, it
is necessary to understand the times in which we live. To do this, it
is necessary to understand the changing national and international laws
and the changing ideas of justice that govern our lives. This session
reviews the origins of the national and international institutions that
determine the shape of contemporary life.
6:10 p.m. - 7:10
p.m.
Biblical Law, Part I (Love and Grace):
Methods for Making Wise the Simple by Studying the Law of Moses
This presentation will reveal how differently
the opposing beliefs of Christians and Secular Humanists view law, science/medicine,
family, education, history, civil government and religion/church and the
power of our presuppositional worldview. America is at a cultural, political,
legal and religious fork in the road. Discover the consequences of America
rejecting the laws of nature and nature’s God and how the winner
of this worldview war will determine the fate of America’s faith,
family, freedoms and future.
Christian Legal History and the Secularization and Centralization of the State: Understanding the Times, Part II of II
In this session, Eric will impart an understanding of the effect of our times on Christian life by looking at the historic legal forces that have changed America from a Christian republic into a government-focused secular state, freeing our families from unconsciously accepting the laws of men that conflict with God’s law, and identifying sources for studying the origins and nature of modern tyrannies and sources for asserting alternative systems of Christian liberty. This session reviews the processes (including the Civil War and the radicalization of the U.S. Supreme Court) by which the United States was dechristianized, secularized and centralized.
Biblical Law, Part II (Personality/Being in the Image of God and Freedom) Methods for Making Wise the Simple by Studying the Law of Moses
In this session, Eric will introduce the study of biblical Law by focusing on the general structures that the Bible teaches us, order the Laws given to Moses by God, make the study of the Law of Moses easier by pointing out the forms that run through its individual parts, and provide methods for use in home instruction. “The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple” (Psalm 19:7). Accordingly, each year at Handong International Law School, students begin their studies of man’s law by studying the Law given to Moses. By learning the perfect structures of justice, ordered freedom and legal personality (individual, familial, national) in God’s Law, we prepare ourselves to understand the possibilities and failures of the law of man. The focus of this session is on the principles of Personality/Being in the Image of God and Freedom.