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Religious Ideas for Secular Universities

With Religious Ideas for Secular Universities, John Sommerville continues a line of enquiry he began in his 2006 book, The Decline of the Secular University. There, he argued that the American university has found itself on society’s sidelines by excluding religion from academic discourse. In doing so, it refused, or at least failed, to address…
October 15, 2010
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An Introduction to Religion and Literature

Literature tries to depict something – people, a culture, a historical situation, or images that stir the imagination – but depicting and explaining can work together. Mark Knight’s strength is to hear the sounds in literature and offer a critique of those who do not hear them in a Christian manner. The introduction provides an…
October 15, 2010
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Business as Mission: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice

Christian colleges and universities are filled with a diverse body of students and faculty who are dedicated to the great commission (Matt. 28:19-20) and to the greatest commandments (Matt. 22:37-40). Many in this diverse group eventually will find themselves operating in the global marketplace, perhaps the last great frontier of missions. Functioning effectively in this…
October 15, 2010
Review Essays

The (Re)Turn to the Person in Contemporary Theory—A Review Essay

Introduction “Before the end of the eighteenth century, man did not exist.”Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1994 ), 308. So claimed Michel Foucault in his intellectual archaeology of modernity, The Order of Things. Indeed “man,”I am framing this with the gender-specific term “man” in this…
October 15, 2010
Review and Response

Escaping the Cage of Secular Discourse—A Review Essay

Steven D. Smith’s The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse is an important book.Steven D. Smith, The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (Harvard University Press, 2010),280 pp. $26.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780674050877. I will be offering a point or two of criticism. That, however, takes nothing away from my judgment that Smith’s book is an intellectually imaginative and compelling…
Nicholas Wolterstorff
October 15, 2010
Review and Response

A Response to Nicholas Wolterstorff

It is an honor to have The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse reviewed by a person and scholar of the stature of Nicholas Wolterstorff – and a relief to see that the review is generally favorable. Wolterstorff presents the principal arguments of the book succinctly and sympathetically and offers some perceptive criticisms. These criticisms prompt me…
October 15, 2010
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Moving Beyond Value- or Virtue-Added: Transforming Colleges and Universities for Redemptive Moral Development

Perry L. Glanzer notes that Christian colleges and universities often replicate the disciplinary structures and adopt the student development theories of the academy. However, these structures and theories emerged as a result of higher education’s failed search for a nonsectarian form of humanism. This problematic origin helps explain why these structures and theories exacerbated the…
July 15, 2010
Article

Teaching Philosophy: Instilling Pious Wonder or Vicious Curiosity?

In this essay Teri Merrick argues that Christian philosophers are uniquely called to cultivate a disposition of wonder in their students, despite its strong family resemblance to the medieval vice of curiosity (curiositas). The argument hinges on showing that wonder is essential tothe practice of authentic Christian hospitality. Wonder is claimed to be the emotional…
July 15, 2010