The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on the Future of Baptist Higher Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-88146-104-6
Verlag: Mercer University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Baptists

This title offers a look at how Baptists have formed and sustained scholarly life in America. ""The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on the Future of Baptist Higher Education"" is the product of a group of Baptist scholars interested in critically examining the history, challenges, and possibilities of a scholarly life in the Baptist Academy. The underwriting project is assessing the fruitfulness of a notion like the 'Baptist Academy' for their self-understanding and institutional identity. Authors include Thomas Kidd, Adam English, Stephen Chapman, Chad Eggleston, Doug Henry, Barry Harvey, Elizabeth Newman, Roger Ward, Scott Moore, David Gushee, and Paul Fiddes. Baptists and the intellectual establishment have often been at odds, as Paul Fiddes notes in his examination of Matthew Arnold's ""Culture and Anarchy"", which criticizes non-conformists as dismissive of high culture, jealous of an established religion, and advocating a morality of 'doing your own thing'. The voices of the young scholars in the Baptist Academy challenge the prevailing metaphors of the academy in their respective disciplines with a variety of arguments and observations that illuminate the continuing vitality of communities of learning and communities of scholars called into a covenantal understanding of themselves and the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Roger

Gushee, David P.

Über Autor(innen)

ROGER WARD is associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown College and the director of the Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy. His publications include Conversion in American Philosophy (Fordham, 2004) and articles on Jonathan Edwards, C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. He is a past president of the Kentucky Philosophical Association and current president of the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers. DAVID P. GUSHEE is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University. Before that, he served at Union University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Evangelicals for Social Action. Educated at William and Mary, Southern Theological Seminary, and Union Seminary, he is a columnist for Christianity Today and a widely sought speaker and commentator on public affairs. He is also the author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning Kingdom Ethics (Intervarsity Press).