Thank-you to InterVarsity colleague Tom Trevethan for giving the Emerging Scholars Network the permission to republish his review of Mark Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, originally in the Faculty Ministry's Lamp Post. Note: Mark Noll was the featured speaker at the 2012 Midwest Faculty Conference. Many thought of Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind as a sequel to The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994), which began with the biting observation and lament, "The scandal of … [Read more...] about Review: Mark Noll’s Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
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Spend Next Summer with Mark Noll at the 2012 Midwest Faculty Conference
One of the most important books of 2011 for Christians in the academy was Mark Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind. Mark Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and one of the leading contemporary historians of religion; he's also a gifted observer of the intellectual world of evangelical Christianity, perhaps best known to ESN members for his 1994 book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Photo courtesy of William Koechling I just finished reading Jesus … [Read more...] about Spend Next Summer with Mark Noll at the 2012 Midwest Faculty Conference
Don’t miss “God in America”
First impressions of PBS' God in America, with some filling out by dialog with the series executive producer Mike Sullivan in today's open chat on Patheos. Maybe I should have divided the material into more than one post, but some friends have been dropping emails to post it all ASAP ;-) So here you are ... What is PBS' God in America? Positives points What didn't sit well, including some recommendations ... Don't worry more is coming, including a tie back into the Elizabethtown College and Peacemaking … [Read more...] about Don’t miss “God in America”
Week in Review: Future of Evangelicals Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. The Future of Evangelicals in Academia. Who else to address this question than Mark Noll, historian and author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Lots of good material in this interview, including some of his impressions of James … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Future of Evangelicals Edition
Do You Get The Lamp Post?
Just a quick, unscheduled post today. ESN works very closely with InterVarsity's Faculty Ministry, which publishes a quarterly email chronicle called The Lamp Post. The next issue is coming out this week. If you aren't receiving it, you should be! Here's a sneak peek at this week's issue: David Thomas of Union University reviews Mark Noll's new book, God and Race in American Politics: A Short History Andrew Lee of ISAAC (the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity) writes about integrating … [Read more...] about Do You Get The Lamp Post?