Lexington Books
Pages: 184
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978-0-7391-2547-2 • Hardback • August 2008 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Janel M. Curry is professor of geography and dean of research and scholarship at Calvin College. Ronald A. Wells is director of the Maryville Symposium on Faith and the Liberal Arts at Maryville College.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Probing Linguistic and Moral Coherence
Chapter 3 Words and Things: the Hope of Perspectival Realism
Chapter 4 Can We Be Good Without God?
Chapter 5 Questioning Assumptions Underlying Science
Chapter 6 Can Scientific Laws Teach Us the Nature of the World?
Chapter 7 Design in Nature: What is Science Properly Permitted to Think?
Chapter 8 Truth-Telling and Truth-Searching
Chapter 9 Reckoning with the Conquest of California and the West: Josiah Royce and American Memory
Chapter 10 Better Media with Wisdom from a Distant Place
Chapter 11 Imagining a World
Chapter 12 Gender Partnership: A Care Theory Perspective
Chapter 13 American Poverty Policy: Concerns about the Nature of Persons in a Good Society
Chapter 14 Understanding God, Nature, and Social Structure: A Case Study of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
A dazzling display of the power of a Christian mind: top-notch authors at the top of their game. This book shows how fearless and honest Christians should engage the contemporary world.....
— C. Stephen Evans
Faithful Imagination in the Academy takes the faith and learning discussion beyond the emphasis on argument to clear vision; beyond combative metaphors to dialogue; and beyond an apologetic tone to invitation. The book provokes intrigue and puzzlement through concrete examples of what scholars have actually tried to do, rather than speculating on what might be possible....
— Shirley A. Mullen
First-order scholarship by Christian believers is no longer a rarity. Yet because of the multiplied complexities of existence, there is an ongoing need for learning that moves from general Christian perspectives to specific intellectual challenges. The chapters of this book show how convincingly that scholarship can be carried out. The book's breadth combines with the depth of its individual chapters to make a compelling statement....
— Mark A. Noll