Faithful Imagination in the Academy

Explorations in Religious Belief and Scholarship
Herausgeber: Curry, Janel M.; Wells, Ronald A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Wells and Curry have brought contributions from various disciplines under one theme in an attempt to answer one question: what is the appropriate use of religious commitments by scholars trying to do intellectual work that would appeal to academic colleagues?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780739125472
• ISBN-10: 0739125478
• Artikelnr.: 24557609

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Probing Linguistic and Moral Coherence Chapter 3
Words and Things: the Hope of Perspectival Realism Chapter 4 Can We Be Good
Without God? Part 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? Part 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 Part 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