Christ-Centered Education

Christian education was never meant to be just about passing on information or defending the faith. It was meant to form disciples.

In Christ-centered Education: Post-critical Christian Pedagogy, Steven F. Hyatt challenges common approaches to Christian schooling that focus primarily on content, technique, or cultural resistance. Instead, he invites educators to recover a deeper vision of education as discipleship—one that shapes who students are becoming, not just what they know.

Drawing from Scripture, theology, and years of experience in Christian education and ministry, Hyatt argues that lasting formation begins with the educator. Teaching is not neutral; it flows from who the teacher is, what they love, and how they are being shaped by Christ. When education is rooted in worship, love, biblical faithfulness, community, stewardship, and wisdom, it becomes a transformative practice rather than a transactional one.

This book offers a hopeful and challenging vision for Christian educators who sense that something is missing in current models of schooling and discipleship. Rather than offering quick techniques or formulas, Hyatt calls teachers to lead from presence, humility, and faithful attention to the work of the Spirit—forming students for wise, faithful participation in God’s redemptive work in a complex, post-Christian world.