[4] Principle Approach uses Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language and maintains that "It will equip you for Christian leadership, strengthen your vocabulary, give you an edge in communicating your view and become your foundation for thinking and reasoning Biblically".
[5] Also, it is taught that for one "to understand principles of liberty, one must return to the thought and writings of those whom God used to establish the first Christian constitutional representative Republic the world has ever known".
[6] In spring 1972, Sunnyside Baptist Church pastor Harry Boydstun invited Mel and Norma Gabler to speak about their work at a Wednesday night service.
[7] They claimed that America was losing its Christian heritage because children were never introduced to it in schools: "Allowing a student to come to his own conclusion about abstracts and concepts creates frustration.
[8] During the service, Boydstun sensed a mission to provide education within a Christian setting for the students of southwest Oklahoma City.
[citation needed] On September 1, 1972, Christian Heritage Academy opened with 200 students, first through eighth grades, meeting in the south Oklahoma City facilities of Sunnyside Baptist Church but separately incorporated.
Among his advisors were R.J. Rushdoony; Hall and Slater, the authors of the books; and officers of The Foundation for American Christian Education in San Francisco, California; and later, John Talcott, member of the Evangelical Council for National Policy,[9][10] a director of the Ocean Spray Corporation and founder of Plymouth Rock Foundation, whose Plymouth Rock Seminars were foundational to the school’s philosophical development; Katherine Dang, then the principal of the Chinese Christian Schools of San Leandro, California, and teacher at the pilot school in Hayward, California, under the direction of CHA development contributor James B.
He discussed his findings with Tom Elliff, the senior pastor of First South Baptist Church and a patron of the school[citation needed].
[citation needed] CHA published "God Fashioned the Continents for His Story," an essay that says, "Are there physical signs of the intentional hand of Providence?
It says the United States can be found in the Bible and that "His design should point to the work of Christ in human history — the story of liberty.
"[11] Echoing R.J. Rushdoony and other Christian dominionists, it says Native Americans "occupied but did not possess the land" in spite of overwhelming evidence that tribes in North America had a history and civilization for thousands of years,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] It says North America "was not designed to give birth and development to a new civilization but to receive one ready-made" and that it invited colonization through Manifest Destiny... "it seems to invite the European race, the people of progress, to new fields of action, to encourage their expansion throughout its entire territory.
"[22] The publication also carries the following quote from Alexis de Tocqueville: In 2007 CHA sued the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Athletic Association, seeking membership.