Faithful Imagination in the Academy - Explorations in Religious Belief and Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung 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? Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Janel M. Curry, Janel M. (EDT)/ Wells Curry
• Assisted by: Janel M Curry (Editor), Janel M. Curry (Editor), Curry Janel M. (Editor), Ronald A Wells (Editor), Ronald A. Wells (Editor), Wells Ronald A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9780739125489
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2548-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Education, RELIGION / Faith, Social groups, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, Religious instruction, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Aspects Of Religion (Non-Christian)