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In our most recent Emerging Scholars Review, we told you about a new website connecting faculty and administrators to campuses of faith, AcademicVocations.org. Yesterday, they began a new offer: a weekly drawing for a $250 scholarship to the academic conference of your choice (including Following Christ 2008). Read the rest of this entry »

ESN partner Mars Hill Audio has just released a new audiobook, The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education by Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann.

Here’s a quick description from MHA’s website:

Higher education long ago distanced itself from its originating Christocentric purposes. But today, the condition of Western universities is even more disordered. Institutions of higher education lack any common vision of what is true and what is good for human flourishing. The postmodern university is not only post-Christian, it is post-humanist, and for the same reasons. Humanism, after all, is the product of a culture that believed in the Incarnation.

In their book The Passionate Intellect, Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann argue that the Incarnation is after all the only reliable foundation on which to build a properly humanistic education. “Christians are supposed to be the paradigm for a new humanity founded by Christ and inaugurated by his resurrection from the dead, a decisive event signaling the reconciliation of humanity to God and anticipating the full redemption of God’s creation.” [emphasis added]

Hmm, where else have I recently seen the term “human flourishing?” This book looks very intriguing, and I encourage you to check it out. (And, if you’d like to contribute a review to the blog after you do, just let me know.)

Periodically, we’ll feature one of ESN’s partner organizations here on the blog. Mars Hill Audio is committed to assisting Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of contemporary culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement. Mars Hill Audio primary resource is their bimonthly Journal, a ninety-minute audio program on CD or mp3, consisting of 10- to 15-minute interviews on a variety of topics. Click here for the contents of the current Journal. MHA also offers a free podcast, a series called Conversations that features longer interviews on special topics, a new series on the Supreme Court called Dialogues on Justice and Judges, and much more.

ESN members are eligible for discounted subscriptions to Mars Hill Audio. Visit our subscription discounts page for more details. If you’re not yet a member but want to take advantage of the discount, join for free today.