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A Theology of Higher Education

Reviewed by Perry L. Glanzer, Educational Foundations, Baylor University Do not let the title of this book fool you. Mike Higton, Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, and Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter, has not written this book for scholars working in Christian colleges and universities. Instead, he penned his…
April 15, 2013
Book Review

Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education

Reviewed by Karen S. Buchanan, Academic Affairs, George Fox University In Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, David S. Dockery, President of Union University, and his twenty-four co-essayists explore the “place of Christian faith” on the university campus. Dockery asserts that the “calling of Christian higher education is to “reflect the life…
April 15, 2013
Review and Response

A Free People’s Suicide – A Review Essay

Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Os Guinness’ A Free People’s Suicide is a vigorous jeremiad that paints a dark picture of contemporary U.S. society while offering an equally dark account of the American presence in the world. Although in a last short chapter…
April 15, 2013
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Natural law, Sexual Anthropology, and Sexual Licitness

Traditionally, Christianity has forbidden fornication, claiming that it is an offense against God. But why might God see it as a transgression? Miguel A. Endara contends that natural law reasoning applied to sexual anthropology helps us to discover that fornication promotes human objectification and existential fragmentation. In accord with natural law, that which undermines human flourishing is morally illicit.…
January 15, 2013
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Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology Insights into the Classical Theological Debate about Free Will and Responsibility

In recent years significant advances have occurred in both fields of neuroscience and cognitive psychology which have provided further comprehension regarding the biological structures underlying intentionality and decision making. In this essay, Tobias A. Mattei reviews the insights such empirical data might provide to the classical theological debate about human will and responsibility. After analyzing the positions of John…
January 15, 2013
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John Foster and the Integration of Faith and Learning

The “integration of faith and learning” has become a touchstone of many Evangelical Protestant higher education institutions in recent decades. Martin Spence argues that modern Evangelical scholars and teachers have intellectual forbears who long ago raised similar questions about the relationship between faith and learning. The author introduces one such individual, the nineteenth-century British Baptist…
January 15, 2013