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The outrageous idea of Christian scholarship

Autor: George M Marsden
Editora: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edição/Formato  Livro : InglêsVer todas as edições e formatos
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At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of the leading
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Formato Físico Adicional: Online version:
Marsden, George M., 1939-
Outrageous idea of Christian scholarship.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)654035266
Tipo de Documento: Livro
Todos os Autores / Contribuintes: George M Marsden
ISBN: 0195105656 9780195105650
Número OCLC: 34967767
Descrição: 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Conteúdos: Why Christian perspectives are not welcomed --
The arguments for silence --
Christian scholarship and the rules of the academic game --
What difference could it possibly make? --
The positive contributions of a theological context --
Building academic communities.
Responsabilidade: George M. Marsden.
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At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of the leading participants in the debates concerning religion and public.

life. Marsden now gives his proposal a fuller treatment in The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, a thoughtful and thought-provoking book on the relationship of religious faith and intellectual scholarship. More than a response to Marsden's critics, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship takes the next step towards demonstrating what the ancient relationship of faith and learning might mean for the academy today. Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream.

American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context. Contemporary university culture is hollow at its core, Marsden writes. Not only does it lack a spiritual center, but it is without any real alternative. He argues that a religiously diverse culture will be an intellectually richer one, and it is time for scholars and institutions to take the intellectual dimensions of their faith.

seriously and become active participants in the highest level of academic discourse.

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