Faith and Learning on the Edge: A Bold New Look at Religion in Higher EducationZondervan, 2004 - 319 páginas The faith community includes some of the most brilliant minds in academe. Yet many have felt compelled to check their faith at the doors of our educational institutions. Intimidated by a daunting amalgam of naturalism and postmodernism, they have been silenced by secularists' insistence that faith has no place in the quest for knowledge. In Faith and Learning on the Edge, David Claerbaut refutes this fallacy. He shows how those who espouse a values-neutral approach to knowledge and research fail to live up to their own standard. In capitulating to them by separating faith from learning, Christians abdicate their responsibility toward both higher education and the culture at large. Believers must reintegrate their faith as a crucial component of learning, insists the author, and he explores ways in which this can be accomplished. Examining the worldviews that govern contemporary research and academe, Claerbaut unmasks the often vehement, sometimes subtle, disdain toward Christian thinking in both mainline universities and Christian institutions. More than that, he shows why believers who step in to fill the deep need for such thinking stand on firm intellectual ground---indeed, have the advantage in terms of fact and reason. And he considers how to apply a faith-and-learning approach across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the physical sciences, the arts and humanities, and the behavioral sciences. Praised by Protestant and Catholic scholars, Faith and Learning on the Edge looks at such issues as: Christian education versus 'baptized paganism' Naturalism, postmodernism, and their impact The high-stakes politics of the academic mainstream The nature of 'faith and learning' Being true to the role of learning in Christian scholarship The mindset of the Christian in the physical sciences Guidelines for the Christian artist Philosophy under a Christian lens Faith and the mental health models Sociology: faith in the eye of naturalism . . . and much more. For provosts, academic administrators, professors, college and graduate students, and everyone interested in the state of education, Faith and Learning on the Edge offers insights that are illuminating, convincing, and convicting. |
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9 | 41 |
25 | 48 |
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES | 55 |
The High Stakes Politics of the Academic Mainstream | 62 |
How Does Christian Scholarship Fit into | 91 |
How Can We Be True to the Role of Learning in Christian | 106 |
What Are the Components of Faith and Learning? | 125 |
APPLYING FAITH AND LEARNING IN | 137 |
Philosophy under a Christian Lens | 200 |
Freud and Lewis Debate the Great Philosophical Questions | 213 |
The Battleground | 224 |
What Is a Christian Historian? | 234 |
THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | 243 |
Reflections for the Christian Political Scientist | 245 |
Need TheoryA Place Where Faith Meets Learning | 258 |
Faith Meets the Mental Health Models | 270 |
Why Is Creation Central to the FaithandLearning Enterprise? | 146 |
What Is the Mindset of the Christian in the Physical Sciences? | 163 |
Christian Implications in the Physical Sciences | 171 |
How Do We Look at Art through Christian Eyes? | 181 |
Some Guidelines for the Christian Artist | 188 |
How Do We Teach Literature in a Postmodern World? | 194 |
Faith in the Eye of Naturalism | 279 |
Some Christian Views on the Dismal Science | 295 |
Conclusion | 307 |
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