Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319617443
• ISBN-13: 9783319617442
• Author: Jennifer L. Howell, T. Laine Scales

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices—graduate students, pastors, and seasoned scholars—the book examines the Christian university’s relationship to the Church and how faith and stewardshipcan guide the pursuit of teaching and scholarship.

Table contents:

I. Introduction—Stewardship Reconsidered: Academic Work and the Faithful Christian

1. Vocation and a Scholarly Life of Stewardship

2. Toward a Vision of Vocation

3. Vocation Is Something that Happens to You: Freedom,Education, and the American Literary Tradition

4. Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens

5. Liberal Learning and Christian Practical Wisdom

II. Faithful Teachers and Pedagogical Practices

6. Ever Ancient, Ever New: Reading to Become Wise

7. Pedagogical Practices: Lessons from Augustine of Hippo

8. “Expound This Love:” Forming the Next Generation of Christian Teacher-Scholars Through the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program

9. Intellectual Humility & Higher Education

10. How Christian Faith Can Animate Teaching: A Taxonomy of Diverse Approaches

III. Church and Academy: Stewarding our Faith and our Universities

11. The Mind Is Its Own Place: Gnosticism and Why Scholars Need the Church

12. Imagining Structural Stewardship: Lessons in Resistance and Cultural Change from the Highlander Folk School

13. William James’s Pragmatic Pluralism and the American University’s Loss of Soul

14. The Ecclesial Turn: Putting Stanley Hauerwas’s Vision for Christian Higher Education into Practice

15. Rising from the Rubble: The Vital Significance of Christian Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century

16. Afterword: Vocation, Stewardship, and Teaching: A Hopeful Response

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