The Christian Academic in Higher Education The Consecration of Learning /

This book offers a Christian engagement with the realities of academic life and work. Examining this topic from intellectual, institutional and spiritual perspectives, the author explores how the two identities - as a Christian and an academic - can both coexist and complement one another. The autho...

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Main Author: Sullivan, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Church and education.
Education-Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Religion and sociology.
ISBN:9783319696294
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • PART I. ENTERING THE FIELD
  • Chapter 2. Purposes and Presuppositions
  • Chapter 3. Christian Scholars
  • PART II. INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND WORK
  • Chapter 4. Academic Judgements
  • Chapter 5. Context, Conditions and Community
  • Chapter 6. Worship and Learning
  • Chapter 7. Christian Universities
  • PART III. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
  • Chapter 8. Wisdom, Vocation and the University
  • Chapter 9. Polarities in Christian Pedagogy
  • Chapter 10. Reading, Teaching and Engagement
  • Chapter 11. Vulnerability and Self-Giving in Christian Teaching and Learning
  • Chapter 12. The Consecration of Learning.

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