Chapter 1 CONTENT
The Author warns against unbridled suspicion that heretics are going to get you if you go to university, and on the other hand, naive overconfidence. Both extremes are pitfalls. The author gives 3 bits of advice:
1- Remember your an 18 year old and it is no reasonable to think you can go toe to toe with a university professor. You do not have all the answers.
2&3 Just because you do not have the answer, that does not mean that there is no answer.
There are several paragraphs on the value of opposition (What does not kill you makes you stronger). There is also advice suggesting Emma find a sort of theological support group, a band of brothers to fight the theological battle to come.
COMMENTS
In the preface and intro, he warns that the Evangelical Church is good in the gospel departments of Gospel and Ethics, but is not preparing late teens for the academic/spiritual challenge of university. I look around the church I attend and I think we might keep about 1/2 of the kids that go off to university. The need for the book is painfully obvious. On the other hand, the book hits a nerve that troubles me. Among some in the Church, there is an anti-academic; anti-theological tradition. This book seems to target the 18 year old going to university, but I am troubled that this is only one part of the problem in evangelical churches.