Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy

ISBN-13: 9783319617435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 285 str.

T. Laine Scales; Jennifer L. Howell

Opis

This book provides new insights on the unique role of graduate students within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices-doctoral students, new faculty, and seasoned scholars-with findings from empirical qualitative research, the book examines how faith and stewardship guide how they pursue scholarship and teaching as well as the academy's relationship to the church. The result of this examination is a coherent and thematic narrative that will appeal to Christian graduate students and new faculty seeking to enter the academy with a clear sense of purpose and responsibility.

Recenzje

"The essays in this collection will prove relevant to all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates seeking to be Christians of incarnational faith in the academy. ... Scales and Howell have collected excellent essays that reflect the common desire to integrate faith and learning. ... The conversation that Scales and Howell facilitate does not reinforce a weak conjoining of faith and learning, but calls for a stewardship wholly animated and brought to life by faith." (Paige Ray, International Journal of Christianity & Education, Vol. 22 (2), 2018) 

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Stewardship Reconsidered: Academic Work and the Faithful Christian

Chapter 2. Responding to a Summons: A.J. Conyers and the Academic Vocation

Chapter 3. Embracing Wisdom

Chapter 4. “Vocation is Something that Happens to You”: Freedom, Calling, and Christian Education

Chapter 5. Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens

Chapter 6. “Expound this Love”: Naming Your Heart in the Classroom

Chapter 7. Christian Teachers Integrating their Faith Traditions: A Taxonomy of Practical Methods

Chapter 8. A “Radical” Approach to Education: Teaching as though the Church Still Matters

Chapter 9. Intellectual Humility & Higher Education

Chapter 10. Pedagogical Practices: Lessons from Augustine of Hippo 

Chapter 11. Finding God in All Things: On Re-imagining the University

Chapter 12. The Mind is its Own Place: Gnosticism and Why Scholars Need the Church

Chapter 13. Cultivating Intellects in a Democracy: Privilege, Education, and John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University

Chapter 14. Pragmatic Pluralism and the American University's Loss of Soul

O autorze

T. Laine Scales is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Professional Development at Baylor University, USA.

Jennifer L. Howell is a PhD student in Religion at Baylor University, USA.