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Author: Chris Watkin
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Temptations of the academic life (1): Making a name for myself
When God descends to the lofty tower of Babel (note the irony) in Genesis 11 to pronounce judgment on it, what is he judging? Certainly the people’s direct disobedience to his command to scatter over the face of the earth. Most probably the great evil that could be caused by a human race united in its
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The prayer life of an academic
How should we pray about our academic work? One tool I have found helpful (though I have used it far less often than I ought) is to pray into each area of the contacts-context-content schema I described in a previous post. Here is one prayer I wrote, related to the ‘context’ of my work. It’s
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Nicholas Wolterstorff video on transforming your discipline: Be patient and don’t jump on bandwagons
Speaking at the Centre for Christian Thought (CCT) conference at Biola University in 2012, Nicholas Wolterstorff touched on a point that many young Christian academics worry about, and that caused me a lot of anxiety in the early days. His talk was entitled ‘Fides quaerens intellectum’, faith seeking understanding, and among other topics he answered
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Three ways that being a Christian make a difference to the work and life of an academic
For those Christian scholars who work in biblical studies, theology or church history, it can be relatively straightforward to see how being a Christian and working in academia can fit together. For the rest of us, the jigsaw is not so easy to complete. As a doctoral student I worried about whether I was being
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Forming a Christian Mind: What to Read and How to Read It
Regular, broad, meditative and transformative reading of the bible is an indispensable foundation for anyone seeking to develop a Christian mind to the glory of God, but we understand God’s word and its implications better when we do so in dialogue with others who have likewise meditated deeply on it. Like dancing or learning to
