The outrageous idea of Christian scholarship / George M. Marsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsden, George M., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education (Christian theology).

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This ""unscientific postscript"" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and TheChronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of the leading participants in the debates concerning religion and public life. Marsden now gives his proposal a fuller treatment in The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, a thoughtfuland though

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Why Christian Perspectives Are Not Welcomed; Chapter Two: The Arguments for Silence; Chapter Three: Christian Scholarship and the Rules of the Academic Game; Chapter Four: What Difference Could It Possibly Make?; Chapter Five: The Positive Contributions of Theological Context; Chapter Six: Building Academic Communities; Getting Specific: A Readable Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"First published by Oxford University Press paperback, 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-137) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-988037-9

0-19-802655-2

1-280-53007-3

1-4294-1470-7

0-19-512290-9

OCLC:

476014798