• There are a number of paradoxes to the notion of evangelical Christian education. Learning faith takes place in the privacy of the heart, is taught as if public knowledge, yet still learned privately. Learning faith involves an important element of unexpectedness, or discontinuity, which cannot be produced on demand, a characteristic which is inimical to teaching; yet faith is taught. Third, the ideals of the religion cannot be taught by socialization, for they are rarely embodied in communities…Read more