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The Four Loves: Love Your Academic Discipline

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THE FOUR LOVES: LOVE GOD & ONE ANOTHER

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Looking for more good reading on following Jesus on the academic pathway? View other reading lists.

Your academic discipline offers a unique insight into the world God created, and into the Creator. Explore the readings below for some models on how to live out love for your discipline, and why it matters.

Love Your Academic Discipline
  • Navigating Beginnings: Glory-Seeking Ministry in the Academic Life (Scholar’s Compass)

    Navigating Beginnings: Glory-Seeking Ministry in the Academic Life (Scholar's Compass)
    Physics Professor W. Brian Lane on how he came to see teaching physics as a way of seeking God's glory.
  • Scholar’s Compass Navigating Beginnings: Learning Scholarly Virtues from the Iliad

    Scholar's Compass Navigating Beginnings: Learning Scholarly Virtues from the Iliad

    Bethany Bear loves teaching the Iliad because it depicts the play and conflict of so many fundamental human values: friendship, fame, and more. Read about the scholarly virtues she learns from the Iliad.

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  • Navigating Knowledge: The Conflict of Gratitude and Equality

    Navigating Knowledge: The Conflict of Gratitude and Equality
    Love Your Academic Discipline Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.  Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. –  I Peter 4:9-10  (NIV) Reflection I have recently been analyzing large datasets of appreciation for research on cooperation and diversity online. I used ...
  • Scholar’s Compass Navigating Knowledge: Creativity That Delights

    Scholar's Compass Navigating Knowledge: Creativity That Delights
    What do chemistry and Tolkien have in common? Dave Vosburg explains at #ScholarsCompass
  • “Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)

    “Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar's Call)
    Act III of Shakespeare's King Lear gets to me every time.
  • New ESN Reading Lists: Career Stages & Four Faculty Loves

    New ESN Reading Lists: Career Stages & Four Faculty Loves
    New ESN Reading Lists Are you looking for a quick guide to some of our key starting point resources here at the ESN blog? We’ve designed a resource page that offers some great starting points for each career stage, and for InterVarsity’s Four Faculty Loves. Browse these if you’re looking for individual reading or small group conversation ...
  • Through the Lens of Faith: Studying Literature in the Communion of Saints

    Through the Lens of Faith: Studying Literature in the Communion of Saints
    "But it's been my experience that the study of literature, and of the cultures it distils and constructs, has been one tool used by God to build and refine my faith, not a high road to its collapse."

View additional reading lists under The Four Loves category:

  • Love God & One Another
  • Love Your Campus
  • Love Your Academic Discipline
  • Love Our World

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