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Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Howard Louthan

March 27, 2015 by Esther Harris No Comments

There is a huge cultural gap between the church and the university, and we are called to bridge it. Frankly, I have never felt completely home in either world. While my university friends need to learn to see nuance and diversity in the Christian tradition, those in the church have much to learn from the university. During our time at the University of Florida my wife and I collaborated with a local Christian Study Center to try to bridge these two worlds. We sponsored speakers who lectured both in a professional setting at the university and also to local church audiences.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: church history, faculty interview, Faithful is Successful, history, interviews

Book Review: Christianity and Classical Culture

August 5, 2014 by Bob Trube No Comments

Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism By Jaroslav Pelikan My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of the problems of the Protestant Christianity I am associated with is that, by and large, we are unaware of anything that happened prior to the Reformation. Its Evangelical subculture is even […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: basil the great, Book Review, Cappadocians, Christianity and Classical Culture, church history, Gregory Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Hellenism, Jaroslav Pelikan, Macrina, natural theology

Headed to Graduate School: Witness in the Academy

August 9, 2012 by Rick Mattson 2 Comments

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Thus far in two prior posts I’ve suggested that the end-point of a graduate education is to “become a person” in the Biblical sense – that is, to grow into the image of God. This holistic vision will encompass within itself more common educational ideals such as becoming an intelligent, productive citizen and serving the […]

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Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy, Vocation Tagged With: academic excellence, apologetics, book recommendation, Christian Apologetics, church history, college transition, common ground, community, culture-making, faith and learning, graduate school, Headed to Graduate School, I Once Was Lost, identity, image of God, integration, knowledge, listening, nicholas wolterstorff, Philosophy of Religion, Prayer, respect, The Story of Christian Theology, To Know and Love God, witness

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