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Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (2/2)

July 25, 2013 by David Williams 34 Comments

Last week I began to introduce myself and my understanding of the Christian scholar's vocation by briefly outlining the controversy which marked my time as a student at Westminster Theological Seminary.   (You can read last week's post here.)   This week I would like to share what I think were some of things I learned about the challenge of Christian scholarship from my time at Westminster.   I should make it clear that my interest is not specifically in the challenge of doing serious scholarship within a confessional … [Read more...] about Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (2/2)

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: biblical studies, C. S. Lewis, Evangelicalism, faith and scholarship, fear, Mere Christianity, mind, paradigm shift, Scripture, theology, Thomas S. Kuhn

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