In what way is the lordship of Christ the bridging philosophy of the Honors Community?
Unions core values state that the university is self-consciously Christ-centered. This value forms the distinctive element of the universitys educational philosophy: that the Christian intellectual tradition is rooted in the concept of the unity of knowledge under the lordship of Christ. The biblical basis for such a concept lies in several scripture passages. In both Psalm 111:10 and Proverbs 1:7, the Lord God is cited as the starting place for wisdom, where humans seek after knowing God with a proper attitude of humility. Colossians 1: 16-17 underscores this centrality of God in the educational enterprise, as it reveals that in Christ all things hold together. The lordship of Christ over every human activity causes believers to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). In these ways all academic fields share intersecting elements that contribute to the kinds of conversations across disciplines that naturally occur within a vibrant academic learning c
