Faith and Learning on the Edge
Subtitle: A Bold New Look at Religion in Higher Education
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: June 1, 2004
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780310253174
Subjects: Christian religious instruction; Higher & further education; Religion; Higher; Religion - Socialissues; USA; Christian Education - Adult; Christianity - Education - Adult; Christian Interest; Religion / Christian Life; General; Church and college; Postmodernism and higher educa; Postmodernism and higher education; United States
First sentence: A Christian college at which I once lectured held an annual "Festival of Faith" week.
Table of contents: title: Christian education or baptized paganism?; title: Artificial lighting of the academic mainstream; title: Relatives of naturalism; title: Down the intellectual cul de sac of postmodernism; title: High stakes politics of the academic mainstream; title: How does Christian scholarship fit into the academic mainstream?; title: What is faith and learning?; title: How can we be true to the role of learning in Christian scholarship?; title: Where does reason end and faith begin?; title: What are the components of faith and learning?; title: Interpassage : stimulating the dialogue; title: Why is creation central to the faith-and-learning enterprise?; title: What is the mind-set of the Christian in the physical sciences?; title: Christian implications in the physical sciences; title: How do we look at art through Christian eyes?; title: Some guidelines for the Christian artist; title: How do we teach literature in a postmodern world?; title: Philosophy under a Christian lens; title: Atheist vs. Christian : Freud and Lewis debate the great philosophical questions; title: Education : the battleground; title: What is a Christian historian?; title: Reflections for the Christian political scientist; title: Psychology : need theory, a place where faith meets learning; title: Faith meets the mental health models; title: Sociology : faith in the eye of naturalism; title: Economics : some Christian views on the "dismal" science