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Academic Lessons from the Life of Joseph

January 22, 2017 by Mark Hansard No Comments

What can Christian academics learn from Joseph?

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Filed Under: Academic Ethics, Christ and the Academy, Devotional, Joseph, Life in the Academy Tagged With: Academic Ethics, devotional, Integrity, intellectual virtues, Joseph

Activism in the Academy

July 6, 2015 by Steven McMullen 1 Comment

A couple of years ago, I found myself surrounded by respected faculty colleagues, discussing a book proposal that I was preparing. The topic of the book is economics and animal ethics, an area of significant disagreement. My own convictions are well-outside the mainstream for Christian economists in the Mid-west, and I am a junior faculty member, so I was somewhat taken back when a colleague asked “Is this book going to be objective? Or will it be advocacy?” I wanted to answer “Yes.”

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: activism, economics, intellectual virtues, politics

Gates and “Keys” (Scholar’s Compass)

June 11, 2015 by David Parry No Comments

Most days, on my way to the library, I have to pick my way through a narrow passageway between Senate House (the ceremonial headquarters of Cambridge University where degrees are conferred) and Gonville and Caius College, dodging speeding cyclists, tourists stopping to take photos, and long crocodiles of schoolchildren.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: honour, humility, intellectual virtues, Scholar's Compass, virtue, wisdom, Wisdom literature, Wisdom Literature series

Book Review: Doing Philosophy as a Christian

November 19, 2013 by Bob Trube 1 Comment

In Doing Philosophy as a Christian, Garrett DeWeese, Ph.D.[1], contends (contra Kant) that our approach should be one of Reason within the bounds of Religion (rather than the reverse). For him, this is a basic governing principle for how Christians do philosophy. Here is his thesis: Doing philosophy as a Christian means doing philosophy under […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Doing Philosophy as a Christian, Garrett DeWeese, intellectual virtues, intervarsity press, philosophy, reason, religion

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