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The Bible and the University (Paperback)
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The Bible and the University (Paperback)
Series: Scripture and Hermeneutics Series
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It is well known that the Western university gradually evolved from
the monastic stadium via the cathedral schools of the twelfth
century to become the remarkably vigorous and interdisciplinary
European institutions of higher learning that transformed Christian
intellectual culture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It
is equally well known that subsequent disciplinary developments in
higher education, including the founding and flourishing of many of
the most prestigious of North American universities, owe equally to
the Protestant and perhaps particularly Calvinist influence. But
that the secularized modern university that descended from these
developments is now in something of an identity crisis is becoming
widely - and often awkwardly - apparent. The reason most often
given for the crisis is our general failure to produce a morally or
spiritually persuasive substitute for the authority that
undergirded the intellectual culture of our predecessors. This is
frequently also a reason for the discomfort many experience in
trying to address the problem, for it requires an acknowledgement,
at least, that the secularization hypothesis has proven inadequate
as a basis for the sustaining of coherence and general
intelligibility in the university curriculum. Nowhere is this more
apparent than in the disciplines of biblical studies and theology,
which once were the anchor or common point of reference for
theological thought, but which are now both marginalized in the
curriculum and internally divided as to meaning and purpose, even
where the Church itself is concerned. In this final volume of the
Scripture and Hermeneutic Series, a group of distinguished scholars
have sought to understand the role of the Bible in relation to the
disciplines in a fresh way. Offered in a spirit of humility and
experimentally, the essays here consider the historic role of the
Bible in the university, the status of theological reflection
regarding Scripture among the disciplines today, the special role
of Scripture in the development of law, the humanities and social
sciences, and finally, the way the Bible speaks to issues of
academic freedom, intellectual tolerance, and religious liberty.
Contributors Include: Dallas Willard William Abraham Al Wolters
Scott Hahn Glenn Olsen Robert C. Roberts Byron Johnson Robert
Cochran, Jr. David I. Smith John Sullivan Robert Lundin C. Stephen
Evans David Lyle Jeffrey
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