The Vocation of the Christian Scholar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vocation of the Christian Scholar write by Richard T. Hughes. This book was released on 2005-05-02. The Vocation of the Christian Scholar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard T. Hughes's highly praised book on the relationship between Christian faith and secular learning -- originally titled "How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind" -- is now available in this revised and expanded edition, which speaks more directly to the subject of vocation. In a substantial new preface Hughes recounts his own vocational journey, telling how he drew on Christian theology to discover his talents and how best to use them. Another new chapter explores the vocation of Christian colleges and universities, including the purposes and goals of church-related education. Drawing from the Catholic, Reformed, Lutheran, and Anabaptist traditions, Hughes shows how the Christian scholar can embrace paradox rather than dogmatism. His reflections provide a compelling argument that faith, properly pursued, nourishes the openness and curiosity that make a life of the mind possible. Praise for the original edition: "In this beautifully written, sermonic essay Richard Hughes defines the virtues needed for sound scholarship and good teaching. . . . As Hughes powerfully and persuasively argues, the Christian scholar has ample Christian warrant to be humble in the face of diversity, open to the challenge of competing perspectives, and fully engaged in the cooperative, rigorous, and imaginative search for truth." -- The Christian Century "Following the examples of George Marsden and Mark Noll, Hughes encourages Christians not to forsake their calling as scholars nor to be discouraged by the enormity of their task, but to keep on integrating faith and contemporary culture." -- Reformed Review "In this book Richard Hughes mentors all of us who want to beboth Christians and scholars. But even for those who do not teach and would not wear the name 'scholar, ' this book is a valuable model of what it means to serve God humbly in one's chosen vocation." -- New Wineskins "Everybody who is concerned with Christian education should read this little book." -- Journal of Education and Christian Belief
How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind
How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind write by Richard Thomas Hughes. This book was released on 2001. How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can Christian faith sustain the life of the mind? This beautifully written essay by Richard Hughes counters the widespread perception of Christians as steeped in narrowness and dogmatism and provides a powerful argument that faith, properly pursued, in fact nourishes the openness and curiosity that make a life of the mind possible.
Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation
Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation write by Douglas V. Henry. This book was released on 2003. Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christian scholars and teachers everywhere are exploring ever more fully the relationship between Christian faith and the various academic disciplines. In this book, leading voices in the Christian academy provide a solid theological foundation for understanding the aims and practice of faith-and-learning integration, especially within church-related institutions, and also discuss some major challenges and opportunities facing Christian higher education in the twenty-first century. --From publisher's description.
Confessing History
Confessing History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confessing History write by John Fea. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Confessing History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today’s academia. Marsden’s contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and intellectual scholarship in academic journals and in the mainstream media. The contributors to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation expand the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examine what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today. The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out one’s calling as an historian? And to what extent does one’s calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or goals of one’s work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community member, or social commentator? Written from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.
Teaching and Christian Imagination
Teaching and Christian Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching and Christian Imagination write by David I. Smith. This book was released on 2016-01-15. Teaching and Christian Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an energizing Christian vision for the art of teaching. The authors — experienced teachers themselves — encourage teacher-readers to reanimate their work by imagining it differently. David Smith and Susan Felch, along with Barbara Carvill, Kurt Schaefer, Timothy Steele, and John Witvliet, creatively use three metaphors — journeys and pilgrimages, gardens and wilderness, buildings and walls — to illuminate a fresh vision of teaching and learning. Stretching beyond familiar clichés, they infuse these metaphors with rich biblical echoes and theological resonances that will inform and inspire Christian teachers everywhere.
