The Christian Academic in Higher Education The Consecration of Learning

The Christian Academic in Higher Education The Consecration of Learning / by John Sullivan.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sullivan, John (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Church and education.
Education—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Religion and sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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