Below are suggested readings from my Urbana 12 seminar Serving Christ as a Professor. These are books or essays that Emerging Scholars Network staff and members have found especially helpful to their journey toward becoming a faculty member.
In each section, foundational or introductory selections are listed first, followed by books that are either more advanced or written for a specialized audience.
Be sure to also see our list of Best Books for Undergraduates from Urbana 09, as suggested by our blog readers. We know this is only a partial list of all the books we could have recommended. Did we omit one of your favorites? Recommend it in the comments!
The Life of the Mind
Greg Jao, Your Mind’s Mission
C. S. Lewis, “Learning in War-Time,†published in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
Charles Malik, “The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar,†published in William Lane Craig and Paul Gould, ed. The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind
James Sire, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling
John Stott, Your Mind Matters
Mark Noll, Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Our review)
James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
James Davidson Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World [Read more…] about Serving Christ as a Professor: Suggested Readings from Urbana 12