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Category: For Christian students and faculty
What difference does being a Christian make to my university work? What should Christian students and faculty pray? What books should I read to help me think through my discipline from a Christian perspective?
Here you will find posts to help you to think through these questions and more.
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Bible and culture 4: The Multiperspectival Bible
The transcultural nature of the Bible (see the previous post in this series) is reflected and instantiated in the biblical documents themselves in at least four ways. Each of these ways shows how the Bible crosses multiple perspectives in a way that neither homogenises them into undifferentiated unity nor fragments them into irreconcilable incoherence. First
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Temptations of the academic life (5): Seeking novelty for its own sake, and over-correcting imbalances
In this short video from Biola University’s Centre for Christian thought, James Houston succinctly sketches two temptations of the academic life: to seek after novelty for its own sake, and to address a problem by over-correcting its errors. The temptation to over-correct is often born of a desire to differentiate ourselves sufficiently from those who
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Video talk: Thinking Through Redemption
How does the incarnation provide a fresh way of looking at some of the most divisive political and social divisions of our age? What are its implications for the dignity of matter, history and the human body? Why is the Christian “grace narrative” a subversive force undercutting the drivers of social fracture and division? This
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“Ideas are powerful; all they need is a voice.” – The Biola Center for Christian Thought
The Biola University Center for Christian Thought has some great online resources for helping Christians think about how we can do good in academia and in our disciplines, helping them to flourish. Here is a short teaser video that introduces the Center through a brief meditation on the power of ideas:
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Video talk: Thinking Through Sin and Judgment
What is sin? What are the implications of the Bible’s presentation of sin for cultural production, politics, art and society? What is the asymmetry of good and evil, and why does it matter? How does it ground democracy and equality? This talk considers how Genesis 3 and 11 provide tools of cultural critique, and shows
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Biola Center for Christian Thought: Plantinga and Wolterstorff on the academic totem pole
Biola University’s Centre for Christian Thought is a great resource for Christian postgrads and academics who want to deepen their thinking about how to serve Christ in secular academia. Here’s a taster to whet your appetite: Nicholas Wolterstorff and Alvin Plantinga on how to deal with the academic totem pole. Plantinga’s insight is spot on
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Video talk: Thinking Through Creation
How does the fact that God is both absolute and personal shape a Christian view of reality and culture? How does the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image of God help Christians to avoid two opposite dangers in relation to human identity? How does God’s command to Adam and Eve to
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Video talk: Introduction to Thinking Through the Bible
This is the first in a series of four talks exploring how the biblical turning points of creation, fall and redemption can 1) shape fresh and faithful interventions into some of the most important social, cultural, political and intellectual debates of our day, and 2) help Christian students to understand and engage with their academic
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A Prayer of Samuel Logan Brengle
Keep me, O Lord, from waxing mentally and spiritually dull and stupid. Help me to keep the physical, mental and spiritual fibre of the athlete, of the man who denies himself daily and takes up his cross and follows Thee. Give me good success in my work, but hide pride from me. Save me from
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Bible and culture 3: Universal Truth, Specific Cultures, and the Incarnation
In this third post in the Bible and culture series I continue to take an eschatologically realist approach to Revelation 7. Specifically, I bring the remarkable claims of Christ’s incarnation alongside Revelation 7 in order to show that biblcial truth is not a-cultural, monocultural or even multicultural, but transcultural. We moderns tend to think of
