Faithful Imagination in the Academy Explorations in Religious Belief and Scholarship
by Curry, Janel M.; Wells, Ronald A.; Fackler, Mark; Felch, Susan M.; Hare, John; Ratzsch, Del; Schaefer, Kurt C.; Sterk, Helen M.; Van Baak, David A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-10-17
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
In the past thirty years there has been a sea change in North American intellectual life regarding the role of religious commitments in academic endeavors. Driven partly by postmodernism and the fragmentation of knowledge and partly by the democratization of the academy in which different voices are celebrated, the appropriate role that religion should play is contested. Some academics insist that religion cannot and must not have a place at the academic table; others insist that religious values should drive the argument.
Author Biography
Janel M. Curry is professor of geography and dean for research and scholarship at Calvin College. Ronald A. Wells is director of the Maryville Symposium of Faith and the Liberal Arts at Maryville College.
Table of Contents
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Probing Linguistic and Moral Coherence | |
| Words and Things: The Hope of Perspectival Realism | p. 13 |
| Can We Be Good without God? | p. 31 |
| Questioning Assumptions Underlying Science | |
| Can Scientific Laws Teach Us the Nature of the World? | p. 45 |
| Design in Nature: What Is Science Properly Permitted to Think? | p. 57 |
| Truth Telling and Truth Searching | |
| Reckoning with the Conquest of California and the West: Josiah Royce and American Memory | p. 81 |
| Better Media with Wisdom from a Distant Place | p. 99 |
| Imagining a World | |
| Gender Partnership: A Care Theory Perspective | p. 115 |
| American Poverty Policy: Concerns about the Nature of Persons in a Good Society | p. 131 |
| Understanding God, Nature, and Social Structure: A Case Study of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand | p. 151 |
| Index | p. 165 |
| About the Contributors | p. 173 |
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