Christian Faith And University Life

Author : T. Laine Scales,Jennifer L. Howell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319617442

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Christian Faith and University Life by T. Laine Scales,Jennifer L. Howell Pdf

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.

Author : David S. Dockery,Christopher W. Morgan
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433556562

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Christian Higher Education by David S. Dockery,Christopher W. Morgan Pdf

Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education. Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life, administration, and governance that is rooted in the historic Christian faith. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields, including theology, the humanities, science, mathematics, social science, philosophy, the arts, and professional programs, explore how the foundational beliefs of Christianity influence higher education and its disciplines. Aimed at equipping the next generation to better engage the shifting cultural context, this book calls students, professors, trustees, administrators, and church leaders to a renewed commitment to the distinctive work of Christian higher education—for the good of the society, the good of the church, and the glory of God.

Author : Mathew Guest,Kristin Aune,Sonya Sharma,Rob Warner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780936215

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Christianity and the University Experience by Mathew Guest,Kristin Aune,Sonya Sharma,Rob Warner Pdf

What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from any existing religious convictions, heightening the appeal of a rationalist secularism increasingly dominant in wider society. And yet Christianity remains highly visible on university campuses and continues to be a prominent identity marker in the lives of many students. Analysing over 4,000 responses to a national survey of students and nearly 100 interviews with students and those working with them, this book examines Christianity in universities across England. It explores the beliefs, values and practices of Christian students. It reveals how the university experience influences their Christian identities, and the influence Christian students have upon university life. Christianity and the University Experience makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the survival and evolution of religion in the contemporary world. It offers fresh insights relevant to those working with Christian students, including churches, chaplaincies and student organisations, as well as policy-makers and university managers interested in the significance of religion for education, social responsibility and social cohesion.

Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433572104

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Surviving Religion 101 by Michael J. Kruger Pdf

"I can't imagine a college student—skeptic, doubter, Christian, struggler—who wouldn't benefit from this book." —Kevin DeYoung For many young adults, the college years are an exciting period of selfdiscovery full of new relationships, new independence, and new experiences. Yet college can also be a time of personal testing and intense questioning— especially for Christian students confronted with various challenges to Christianity and the Bible for the first time. Drawing on years of experience as a biblical scholar, Michael Kruger addresses common objections to the Christian faith—the exclusivity of Christianity, Christian intolerance, homosexuality, hell, the problem of evil, science, miracles, and the reliability of the Bible. If you're a student dealing with doubt or wrestling with objections to Christianity from fellow students and professors alike, this book will equip you to engage secular challenges with intellectual honesty, compassion, and confidence—and ultimately graduate college with your faith intact.

Author : Ilana M. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197534144

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God, Grades, and Graduation by Ilana M. Horwitz Pdf

"It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, God, Grades, and Graduation (GGG) offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. GGG introduces readers to a childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups and accounts for Americans' deep relationship with God: religious restraint. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, GGG offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality"--

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191632051

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The Slain God by Timothy Larsen Pdf

Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781433673115

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Faith and Learning by David S. Dockery Pdf

Two dozen Christian higher education professionals thoroughly explore the question of the faith's place on the university campus, whether in administrative matters, the broader academic world, or in student life.

Author : Cliffe Knechtle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0877845697

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Give Me an Answer by Cliffe Knechtle Pdf

Cliffe Knechtle offers clear, reasoned and compassionate responses to the tough questions skeptics ask.

Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493423774

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Why Science and Faith Need Each Other by Elaine Howard Ecklund Pdf

Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition. In this book, award-winning sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund questions this assumption based on research she has conducted over the past fifteen years. She highlights the ways these two spheres point to universal human values, showing readers they don't have to choose between science and Christianity. Breathing fresh air into debates that have consisted of more opinions than data, Ecklund offers insights uncovered by her research and shares her own story of personal challenges and lessons. In the areas most rife with conflict--the origins of the universe, evolution, climate change, and genetic technology--readers will find fascinating points of convergence in eight virtues of human existence: curiosity, doubt, humility, creativity, healing, awe, shalom, and gratitude. The book includes discussion questions for group use and to help pastors, small group leaders, and congregants broach controversial topics and bridge the science-faith divide.

Author : Garrison McKeen Cattell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105552342

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The Christian vs. The University by Garrison McKeen Cattell Pdf

Known to hundreds of thousands of students and alumni of the Pennsylvania State University as "The Willard Preacher," Garrison (Gary) Cattell has been open-air evangelizing there daily since 1982. Through a series of poignant and heartfelt letters of advice addressed to a young Christian convert, this book captures the essence of his lifelong preaching ministry. It is recommended for students, inquirers to the Christian Faith, and anyone struggling to find and defend Truth on today's college campus.

Author : Douglas V. Henry,Michael D. Beaty
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015064716387

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Christianity and the Soul of the University by Douglas V. Henry,Michael D. Beaty Pdf

Leading scholars explore the role of faith in the university setting

Author : Mathew Guest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : College students
ISBN : 1472552490

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Christianity and the University Experience by Mathew Guest Pdf

Author : Douglas Jacobsen,Rhonda Jacobsen,Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195323443

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The American University in a Postsecular Age by Douglas Jacobsen,Rhonda Jacobsen,Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen Pdf

Religion has made a comeback in American society and on university campuses. How should higher education respond? Contributors:athers essays from prominent scholars and educators who unpack the key issues.

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191614330

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A People of One Book by Timothy Larsen Pdf

Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.

Author : Adam Neder
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419784

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Theology as a Way of Life by Adam Neder Pdf

What difference does Jesus Christ make for the way we teach the Christian faith? If he is truly God and truly human, if he reveals God to us and us to ourselves, how might that shape our approach to teaching Christianity? Drawing on the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Adam Neder offers a clear and creative theological and spiritual reflection on the art of teaching the Christian faith. This engaging book provides a wealth of fresh theological insights and practical suggestions for anyone involved in teaching and learning Christianity.