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Christ does not erase our cultural identities. He redeems them. As Classical Christian Education experiences a renewal in the West, more and more Chinese Christians are eager to participate in it-but they face a dilemma. Contemporary resources on classical Christian education almost unanimously define it as a Western tradition rooted in Western languages, Western literature, and the seven liberal arts. Does this mean that Chinese classical Christian schools must also adopt a Western curriculum? Or might they draw from their own Eastern tradition, one characterized not by men such as Plato, Herodotus, and Shakespeare but by Confucius, Sima Qian, and Li Bai? In Redeeming the Six Arts, Brent Pinkall argues that classical Christian education is not fundamentally a canon of fixed texts or subjects but rather an approach rooted in the Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother. Insofar as our ancestors differ, the languages, literature, and arts we study will also differ. Although Chinese Christians share the same ""spiritual"" fathers as their Western counterparts, their ""earthly"" fathers are different, and therefore their curriculum must reflect not only a shared ""Christian"" heritage but also a unique ""classical"" heritage.

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Brent Pinkall is Lecturer of Rhetoric at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho and has ministered in China for many years, promoting classical Christian education there. He has taught at numerous universities throughout China, including one of China's only Christian liberal arts colleges, and has presented at numerous education conferences in the U.S. and overseas for organization such as the Association of Chinese Classical Christian Schools (ACCCS), the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), and the Society for Classical Learning (SCL).

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