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Tag: integration of faith and learning
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What does a “Christian approach” to my academic discipline even mean?
What does a “Christian approach” to my discipline even mean? Do I need to mention Jesus in the papers I write? Is it OK just to allude to something Christian in the acknowledgements? Should I quote the bible? What will happen if I do? I found myself asking questions like these pretty early on in
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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
