The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
by George M. Marsden
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First published in 1997, 'The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship' is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. While other defining elements of a scholar's identity, such as race or gender, are routinely welcomed as providing valued points of view, the perspectives of believing Christians are sometimes dismissed as irrelevant - or, worse, antithetical - to the scholarly enterprise. George M. Marsden argues forcefully that academia is show more enriched by encouraging religious diversity. For this edition, Marsden has added a new preface as well as an entirely new chapter reflecting on the changing landscape of academia in the quarter century since the book first appeared. show lessTags
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Quotes Ch 6: "Scholars, like everyone else, depend on communities. If like-minded academics to not form their own sub-communities, then they will be dependent entirely on the communities that already exist."
"It is especially important for Christian scholars to recognize that mainstream academic culture and spiritual virtues are often at odds. Our academic system rewards self-promotion and specialized scholarship and gives little encouragement to cultivation of virtues."
"... it is essential to remember that teaching is the most important way in which the fruit of our labor is conveyed. The same Christian virtues that characterize the best teaching should be evident in published scholarship."
"It is especially important for Christian scholars to recognize that mainstream academic culture and spiritual virtues are often at odds. Our academic system rewards self-promotion and specialized scholarship and gives little encouragement to cultivation of virtues."
"... it is essential to remember that teaching is the most important way in which the fruit of our labor is conveyed. The same Christian virtues that characterize the best teaching should be evident in published scholarship."
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George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Fundamentalism and American Culture, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, and The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.
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Christianity Today Book Awards (No. 2 – 1998)
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