The scholarly vocation and the Baptist academy : essays on the future of Baptist higher education / Roger Ward and David P. Gushee, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Roger A.

Gushee, David P., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--Education (Higher)--United States.

Baptists.

Baptist universities and colleges--United States.

Baptist universities and colleges.

Baptists--Education (Higher).

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 253 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Christianity, Culture, and Education: A Baptist Perspective / Paul S. Fiddes 1

Chapter 2 Society as a Function of Education / Barry Harvey 26

Chapter 3 "Becoming Important in the Eye of Civil Powers": New Light Baptists, Cultural Respectability, and the Founding of the College of Rhode Island / Thomas Kidd 50

Chapter 4 A New Academic Freedom and the Changing Face of Baptist Higher Education / Adam C. English 68

Chapter 5 Interpreting the Old Testament in Baptist / Stephen Chapman 87

Chapter 6 Confessing Interpretation: Alternative Nomenclature for the Practice of Theological Interpretation / Chad Eggleston 108

Chapter 7 The Predicament and Promise for Young Baptist Scholars / Scott H. Moore 129

Chapter 8 Baptist Higher Education and the Kingdom of God / Roger Ward 148

Chapter 9 The Politics of Higher Education: How the Love of Hospitality Offers an Alternative / Elizabeth Newman 166

Chapter 10 Can Baptist Theology Sustain the Life of the Mind? The Quest for a Vital Baptist Academy / Douglas V. Henry 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780881461046

0881461040

OCLC:

180752917