The Christian Academic in Higher Education The Consecration of Learning /

• Main Author: Sullivan, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Church and education.; Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Religion and sociology.; Religion and Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Sociology of Religion.; Religion and Society.

This book offers a Christian engagement with the realities of academic life and work. Examining this topic from intellectual, institutional and spiritual perspectives, the author explores how the two identities - as a Christian and an academic - can both coexist and complement one another. The autho...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART I. ENTERING THE FIELD
• Chapter 2. Purposes and Presuppositions
• Chapter 3. Christian Scholars
• PART II. INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND WORK
• Chapter 4. Academic Judgements
• Chapter 5. Context, Conditions and Community
• Chapter 6. Worship and Learning
• Chapter 7. Christian Universities
• PART III. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
• Chapter 8. Wisdom, Vocation and the University
• Chapter 9. Polarities in Christian Pedagogy
• Chapter 10. Reading, Teaching and Engagement
• Chapter 11. Vulnerability and Self-Giving in Christian Teaching and Learning
• Chapter 12. The Consecration of Learning.