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Key to research and teaching in the university is the division of academic inquiry into disciplines, where “different kinds of research is happening at the same time.” All this was effected under an “Enlightenment paradigm,” which involves to building knowledge on the basis of autonomous reason, or “reason alone.”Ī more basic component of modernity is the notion of the “modern individual – who is separated as an individual – as a private individual from the public realm.” The modern university includes the “assumption that there’s an individual who is then weighing everything, figuring out what’s right, what’s wrong if it’s a moral question … and then making these choices and ideally in a democracy then voting … The idea of citizenship is very closely linked to the university and also with the nation-state.” This was imported to the United States from Germany in the nineteenth century. Under “a lot of” modern theories, “the nation-state replaced the church.” Much of the church’s authority over people’s lives was taken by the state. He observed that Christian education properly should cover all knowledge, and involves an emphasis on the unity of truth, goodness, and beauty, and on man in the image of God who grasps the truth. Sugimoto proposed to discuss “the collapse of the modern” (other people might call this postmodernism), the resulting identity movements, and a possible Christian response. But, he said, it is a “Christian university today – which is – everything’s changing.” This includes “unique challenges.” Sugimoto first observed of Pepperdine that while “it’s now considered a top-tier university,” it has a background “like a lot of Christian schools that started out as Bible colleges.” Pepperdine is still a “self-avowed” Christian university (affiliated with the Churches of Christ).

Mike Sugimoto, Professor of Asian Studies at Pepperdine University, then discussed the challenges of approaching education from a Christian viewpoint in a world of identity politics on February 18. An earlier article reviewed the shift in the commitment of universities and colleges from disinterested inquiry to ideological commitment to liberationist ideologies, as discussed by Bob Osburn at the annual L’Abri conference in Rochester Minnesota in mid-February.