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The View from Here: Facilitating Perspective-­Taking Through Art

December 8, 2025
In 1890, not long before his apparent suicide, Vincent van Gogh painted a picture of a church. Van Gogh had recently moved to the town of Uver from san-­remy-­de-­provence, where he had been in a mental institution. In Uver, van Gogh hoped to receive help from Paul Gachet, a doctor known for his compassion toward…

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Introducing Christian Scholar’s Review’s Fall Themed Issue: Perspective-Taking

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2024 is “polarization,” defined as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.” Pope Leo XIV, in his first meeting with the media, calls…

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In the thirteenth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Mark Bosco, S.J., the Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Georgetown University. Bosco begins by discussing his research interests residing at the intersection of theology, literature, and the cultivation of a well-ordered imagination. Those interests…
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December 8, 2025

The View from Here: Facilitating Perspective-­Taking Through Art

In 1890, not long before his apparent suicide, Vincent van Gogh painted a picture of a church. Van Gogh had recently moved to the town of Uver from san-­remy-­de-­provence, where he had been in a mental institution. In Uver, van Gogh hoped to receive help from Paul Gachet, a doctor known for his compassion toward…
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What Good is Perspective-­Taking if No One Changes Their Perspective?

The speakers stood in the free speech quad and were accompanied by towering ten-­foot signs. The signs condemned homosexuality with Bible passages—painted in crimson red—as support. At a progressive public university, they immediately attracted a crowd looking for a verbal fight. The confrontation happened right outside the communication building where I was starting my master’s…
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Read Aloud!—For Edification: Pedagogical Reflections Inspired by Kierkegaard

In a passage sure to strike many moderns as charmingly quaint, Augustine confesses genuine puzzlement upon observing one of Saint Ambrose’s reading habits: “When he read, his eyes travelled across the page and his heart sought into the sense, but voice and tongue were silent.Augustine, Confessions, ed. Michael P. Foley, trans. F. J. Sheed (Hacket,…
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Election to Community unto Maximizing Shalom as the Heart of Vocation: Wolfhart Pannenberg and Stanley J. Grenz in Dialogue with John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

The word vocation today often refers to one’s work or employment in the world. This secularized, individualistic connotation is discernible from definitions like “a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation” or the use of the word calling to describe such a “feeling.”Lexico, s.v. “vocation,” accessed 29 November 2020, https://www.lexico.com/definition/vocation. Nevertheless, in…
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Why Seek Profits?: A Missional Perspective on Business

For-profit businesses dominate the modern economy. But is there any good reason for the Christian to willingly participate in them? Upon first glance, this seems like a silly question. Despite the way it is often practiced, for-profit business enterprises can be a powerful force for good and can have a variety of positive consequences, both…
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Mending the Christian Imagination: Place, Race, and Calling in Christian Higher Education

By the middle of spring semester, talk with graduating seniors in my department often include the question: what will you be doing next year? That question reflects the fact that a career is an important aspect of vocation. American Christians often pray about questions of calling such as what work they will do, or who…

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Introducing Christian Scholar’s Review’s Fall Themed Issue: Perspective-Taking

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2024 is “polarization,” defined as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.” Pope Leo XIV, in his first meeting with the media, calls…
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AI and a Possible Renaissance for Christian Higher Education

The early Greeks saw the essence of education as Paideia: the process of forming a whole person into an ideal citizen. They emphasized the formation of virtues like prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance in preparation for active citizenship. In Plato’s Republic, we read that “The object of education is to teach us to love what…
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First Steps at Advent: On Faith and the Fantastic Four Film

Amid star-strewn heavens, a woman groans in labor pains as an enormous devourer endangers her, intent on seizing her miraculous child the moment he’s born. So unfolds the vision of Revelation 12:1–5. So too goes a crucial scene in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). The Revelator retells the…
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The Sun and the Soul: The Whole Creation is Waiting in Eager Expectation

Leaving our Northwoods dining hall, suitcase in hand, an Au Sable student was heading back to his home in Madagascar. As he approached the exit after breakfast, he turned toward us in the sun’s morning light, saying his farewell: It was wonderful to be here with you these ten weeks! A blessing to be among…
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Institutional Survival, The Chocolate War, and The Weight of Glory

All of us who read the Christian Scholars Review want Christian higher education to survive.  Most of us, anyway, are aware of the growing threats to our survival, both as individual colleges and universities; and to our survival as a collective enterprise. Where is Eastern Nazarene University today, Barrington, or Nyack—to limit ourselves for the…
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Living Off Christian Culture: Yes, Christianity Does Make a Difference for Pilots and Architects

When I hear scholars say there is little difference between a secular and a Christian approach to a particular area of the academy, I am often baffled. I recently had that happen this past month with someone at an academic event who mentioned architecture. This person claimed that they thought there would be little difference…

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Established in 1970, Christian Scholar’s Review is a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of faith and learning and contributes to a broader and more unified understanding of the nature of creation, culture, and vocation and the responsibilities of those whom God has created. It also provides a forum for discussion of pedagogical and theoretical issues related to Christian higher education. It invites contributions from Christian scholars of all historic traditions, and from others sympathetic to the task of religiously-informed scholarship, that advance the work of Christian academic communities and enhance mutual understanding with other religious and academic communities.

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