Realizing human potential has always been a focal point within the field of education. To further discover ways of achieving this ob-jective, this paper deals with the anthropological understanding of Martin Luther, Alfred Whitehead, and Parker Palmer and the applica-tions of their thoughts on education. Luther emphasized language ed-ucation as a way of realizing human potential and restoring the rela-tionship between God and humans. Whitehead claimed that con-ceptual power should be developed through epistemological proc-esses, while Palmer presented a compromise between Luther and Whitehead, emphasizing love. Paulo Freire helped them to achieve the balance between theory and practice through the process of crit-ical reflection and liberation. The holistic understanding of education contributes to a Christian interpretation of creation and the identity of the Christian educator. The goal of Christian education can be exa-mined by producing epistemological development, as well as buil-ding loving relationships, because meaning is made through dia-lectical processes in education and the awareness of the meaning of life liberates people, as Paulo Freire indicated.
I. Introduction
II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL EMPHASIS IN HUMAN NATURE
III. EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING
IV. CONSIDERATION OF LIBERATION TOWARD PRAXIS
V. CONCLUSIONS
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