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The Idea of a Christian University : essays in theology and higher education / edited by Jeff Astley ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Milton Keynes, Bucks : Paternoster, c2004.Description: xi, 316 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1842272608
  • 9781842272602
  • 1842272600
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.071 22 IDE
Contents:
Part One: A Christian calling? -- The idea of a Christian university / Ian S. Markham -- University, Christian faith and the church / John Sullivan -- Objections to the idea of a Christian university / Elmer John Thiessen -- A Christian university imagined: recovering paideia in a broken world / Andrew Walker and Andrew Wright -- Sedes sapientiae: Newman, truth and the Christian university / Denis Robinson -- Learning the truth in a Christian university: advice from S©ıren Kierkegaard / Murray A. Rae -- The university without question: John Henry Newman and Jacques Derrida on faith in the university / Gerard Loughlin -- Christian teaching, learning and love: education as Christian ministry and spiritual discipline / Jeff Astley -- Expectations of the Christian campus: ordinary theology, empirical theology and student voices / Leslie J. Francis -- Part Two: A Christian curriculum? -- The curriculum of a Christian university / Adrian Thatcher -- On theology's Babylonian captivity within the secular university / Gavin D'Costa -- Philosophy and the idea of a Christian university / David Carr -- Science in a Christian university / R. J. Berry -- The idea of politics in a Christian university / Nicholas Rengger -- Interdisciplinary perspectives within a Christian context / William K. Kay -- Responsibility, vocation and critique: teacher education in a Christian context / John Sullivan -- A worked example of the Christian agenda: the impact of a Christian ethos on the research and teaching of an australian educational faculty / Patricia Malone.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part One: A Christian calling? -- The idea of a Christian university / Ian S. Markham -- University, Christian faith and the church / John Sullivan -- Objections to the idea of a Christian university / Elmer John Thiessen -- A Christian university imagined: recovering paideia in a broken world / Andrew Walker and Andrew Wright -- Sedes sapientiae: Newman, truth and the Christian university / Denis Robinson -- Learning the truth in a Christian university: advice from S©ıren Kierkegaard / Murray A. Rae -- The university without question: John Henry Newman and Jacques Derrida on faith in the university / Gerard Loughlin -- Christian teaching, learning and love: education as Christian ministry and spiritual discipline / Jeff Astley -- Expectations of the Christian campus: ordinary theology, empirical theology and student voices / Leslie J. Francis -- Part Two: A Christian curriculum? -- The curriculum of a Christian university / Adrian Thatcher -- On theology's Babylonian captivity within the secular university / Gavin D'Costa -- Philosophy and the idea of a Christian university / David Carr -- Science in a Christian university / R. J. Berry -- The idea of politics in a Christian university / Nicholas Rengger -- Interdisciplinary perspectives within a Christian context / William K. Kay -- Responsibility, vocation and critique: teacher education in a Christian context / John Sullivan -- A worked example of the Christian agenda: the impact of a Christian ethos on the research and teaching of an australian educational faculty / Patricia Malone.

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