The Concern of the Reformation for Christian Education (3)

The other of the two main purposes for establishing Christian schools was, as Luther put it, welfare of the "temporal estate." Christian schools did not only have importance for the spiritual realm" of the reading of the Bible, the preparation of ministers, and the general training of children to live and work properly in the Church. They also had to serve the purpose of enabling the children to live and work as responsible Christians in the various spheres of temporal, earthly life. The other...