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Book Review: Mind Your Faith

October 15, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Ideas have consequences. The Holocaust began as an idea, argues David Horner*. Thinking well and loving God with our minds is thus an essential calling for Christians. Horner dedicates Mind Your Faith: A Student’s Guide to Thinking & Living Well to helping university students, especially undergraduate first years, grasp what it takes to think and live well […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: character, David Horner, discipleship of the mind, doubt, faith and reason, Holocaust, Huguenots, intervarsity press, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, loving God, Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well, thinking

The Future of ESN

May 28, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 2 Comments

This is my final post on the Emerging Scholars Blog. Well, my final planned post, anyway. Tom insisted that I leave the door open for guest posts in the future, but I won’t be writing here every Tuesday as I have for the past few years. For my final post, Tom asked me to offer some […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: discipleship of the mind, emerging scholars, Faculty, graduate school, integration, knowledge, professor, secularism, tenure

Why Christians Must Embrace the Life of the Mind

January 24, 2012 by Richard Hughes 1 Comment

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We continue our guest series from Richard Hughes on the vocation of Christian scholars. Dr. Hughes is the Distinguished Professor of Religion and Director of the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies at Messiah College, as well as the author of the book, The Vocation of a Christian Scholar: How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of […]

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: christian scholarship, discipleship of the mind, life of the mind

Can Christian Faith Sustain the Life of the Mind?

January 17, 2012 by Richard Hughes 3 Comments

We continue our guest series from Richard Hughes on the vocation of Christian scholars. The following post is adapted from Richard’s book, The Vocation of a Christian Scholar: How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2005). In the first post of this series, I made the point that “those of us […]

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: academic vocations, bible, christian faculty, christian scholarship, discipleship of the mind, Faculty, life of the mind, professor, vocation

Evangelical Scholarship and the Pursuit of Excellence

December 29, 2011 by David H. Leonard 2 Comments

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A Review of Andreas Köstenberger’s Excellence When posted, guest contributor and ESN member David Leonard had recently completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and was teaching a wide range of courses at several universities in the Twin Cities.  His project at the time involved developing a taxonomy of the intellectual virtues to be used in college-level philosophy courses. […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: alvin plantinga, andreas köstenberger, christian scholarship, discipleship of the mind, Excellence, george marsden, mark noll, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, virtue

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