Blog… Christian Vocation 20 Jan 2006 “…however, we are not allowed to think that one Christian vocation is more spiritual than another. All work, if it is legitimate and offered to God, is sacred. We know no distinction…
Blog… Either? Faith or Intellect 20 Jan 2006 “This false either/or—either faith or intellect—is…not an exaggeration contrived to make a point. It is at the root of every juxtaposition of the two meant to highlight the importance of religion…
Blog… A Scholarly Shame 20 Jan 2006 “But because the Bible is also a human book, written by human authors in human language in a wide variety of literary genres—narrative, poetry, epic, epistle, love song, proverb, apocalyptic,…
Blog… 2nd Rate Academic Subject? 20 Jan 2006 “While I would not want to seem to be advocating a “Bible as Literature” approach, wherein the Bible is viewed as no more than one religious text among many, I…
Blog… I Don't Want to Think 20 Jan 2006 “We require that someone whose religious style we agree with, someone who is safe, give us simple answers to complicated questions. It is better, we think, if we do not have…
Blog… No Future Scandal 20 Jan 2006 “The point is simply that we in Christian schools must do everything in our power to ensure that in future generations there is no scandal of the evangelical mind, that…
Blog… Not the Greatest Danger 20 Jan 2006 “Which is to say that the greatest danger to faith does not come from too much thought, too much research, from being too academic. If it did, the best thinkers would…
Blog… Wide Christian Reading 17 Jan 2006 “That may require reading more widely in great Christian literature than we ever have before. But I do not mean Christian end-time thrillers or romance novels. Those serve only to…
Blog… Squeezing Bad Scholarship 17 Jan 2006 “Squeezing lessons out of any subject is bad scholarship. Moreover, it defeats its own purpose, because the subject will teach us its lessons most effectively when we pay attention most…
Blog… Faulty Research 17 Jan 2006 “To ask a student to support an experiment on photosynthesis by looking up verses in a concordance that refer to the sun or to leaves is not only poor pedagogy;…
Blog… Intellectual Faith 17 Jan 2006 “Moreover, there are just as many stories of young people who have thrown over their Christianity, not because they substituted a more intellectual faith for a less intellectual one, but…
Blog… Academic Quality = Spiritual Decline?? 17 Jan 2006 “In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact…
Blog… Powerful Scriptures 17 Jan 2006 “Does not Scripture, clearly presented, have its own power to produce “application”? The Church already labors under a surfeit of sloppy exegesis, inept hermeneutic and fiery exhortation to rush out…
Blog… Made to Reflect 17 Jan 2006 “Human beings, made in the image of God, are meant to reflect on the nature of things—cannot live without doing so. They are meant, in a word, to understand. That…
Blog… Smart, but Ignorant 17 Jan 2006 “All of this is a reminder, by the way, that the difference between a person who is liberally educated and one who is not is simply, well, a liberal education.…
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