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Beyond the Clash of Civilizations: Hermeneutical Hospitality as a Model for Civilizational Dialogue

The year 2018 marks two milestone anniversaries: the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Samuel Huntington’s original “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs and the seventeenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After those attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Huntington’s predictions of Muslim-Western clashes appeared vindicated. But his…
Scott Waalkes
April 15, 2019
Review Essays

Whatever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?—A Review Essay

Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University. Introduction Whatever happened to nuclear weapons? Once a regular feature of popular culture and news coverage, they seem to have disappeared. News junkies born before the mid-1970s will easily recall controversies surrounding the novel On the Beach, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film Dr. Strangelove,…
Scott Waalkes
July 15, 2015
Introduction

Introduction to the Theme Issue: The Nuclear Age at 70

Richard Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences at Westmont College, Michael Van Dyke is Professor of English at Cornerstone University, Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University, and Mark Yuly is Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Houghton…
Richard Pointer, Michael Van Dyke, Scott Waalkes and Mark Yuly
July 15, 2015
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Rethinking Work as Vocation: From Protestant Advice to Gospel Corrective

The classic Protestant teaching about work has led evangelicals to view work as a vocation. In changing economic times, however, Scott Waalkes argues that we should rethink the classic teaching. He analyzes three “ideal type” views of vocation: a Reformational view, focused on “stations” or divine commands; a mystical view, focused on inner meaning; and…
Scott Waalkes
January 15, 2015
Introduction

Introduction to the Theme Issue: Christian Higher Education as Character Formation

Many of our students are required to read Plato’s Gorgias at some point in their college careers. Occasionally, and after some reflection and discussion of the text, those students come to appreciate just how high the stakes are for those confronted with the Gorgias’s central question: how should one live? Socrates, Plato’s protagonist, champions the…
Shawn Floyd, Stephen Moroney, Matthew Phelps and Scott Waalkes
July 15, 2010