Drawing from her own study of Daniel, the knowledge gained while serving as a teaching assistant for Prof. Iain Provan's Regent College course on Daniel, and the insights gained through talks Carl Ellis gave at an InterVarsity conference, Kathy Cooper has compiled study notes for InterVarsity groups exploring Daniel. These notes are designed to be “plug and play.” While we'll make some further study suggestions for those with extra time, these notes are designed to provide the basis for leading a thoughtful … [Read more...] about Daniel: Notes for Bible Study Groups, Part 4
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Daniel: Notes for Bible Study Groups, Part 3
Drawing from her own study of Daniel, the knowledge gained while serving as a teaching assistant for Prof. Iain Provan's Regent College course on Daniel, and the insights gained through talks Carl Ellis gave at an InterVarsity conference, Kathy Cooper has compiled study notes for InterVarsity groups exploring Daniel. These notes are designed to be “plug and play.” While we'll make some further study suggestions for those with extra time, these notes are designed to provide the basis for leading a thoughtful … [Read more...] about Daniel: Notes for Bible Study Groups, Part 3
Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (Wrap Up)
Following his move to The Big Apple to serve with InterVasity's Graduate & Faculty Ministry at NYU this fall, David is back to wrap up his series on Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar. For earlier posts in the series click here and here. Take it away David! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN's blog and Facebook Wall ----------- 4. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. In his lucid (though acerbic) book, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its … [Read more...] about Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (Wrap Up)
Is Exile the Best Paradigm for Christians in the Academy?
I've been working through some thoughts left over from my reading of James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. This is probably my last post on this book, unless, of course, I think of something else. In searching for a new paradigm for Christian engagement with the world, Hunter suggests Jeremiah 29, God's word to Israel as they were about to go into exile among the Babylonians. Jeremiah 29:11 is the most often quoted verse from this … [Read more...] about Is Exile the Best Paradigm for Christians in the Academy?