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Can New Symbols Change Academic Culture?

July 7, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 2 Comments

Two weeks ago, I was at InterVarsity's Cedar Campus for our 2009 Midwest Faculty Conference. John Sommerville, professor emeritus of history at U. Florida and author of The Decline of the Secular University, was the featured speaker. He spoke about the influence of secularism on the  ideas and structures of the university (as he has previously written in the Chronicle), but also discussed new opportunities for Christian scholars in a "postsecular" university. The third of his four talks addressed a key question: How … [Read more...] about Can New Symbols Change Academic Culture?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, The University Tagged With: andy crouch, culture, culture-making, human, john sommerville, symbols, universities

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