The Bible and Academy, Vol. 8
It is well known that the Western university gradually evolved from the monastic stadium via the cathedral schools of the twelfth century to become the remarkably vigorous and interdisciplinary European institutions of higher learning that transformed Christian intellectual culture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It is equally well known that subsequent disciplinary developments in higher education, including the founding and flourishing of many of the most prestigious of North...
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The eighth in a series of books that result from annual conferences of the top evangelical hermeneutical scholars in the world.
Preface xiContributors xvAbbreviations xixIntroduction David Lyle Jeffrey 1The Bible in Intellectual History 3Authority and Wisdom 5Authority and the Book 6A Flourishing of the Disciplines 9Ad Fontes Redivivus? 11Postscript 14The Bible, the University, and the God Who Hides Dallas Willard 17Sources of Knowledge 18The Bible as a Source of Knowledge 20A Brief History of 'Knowledge' 26Knowing vs. Not-Knowing 31Knowledge of the God who Hides 34The Task of the Christian Intellectual 37The Place of Scripture in Christian Theology William J. Abraham 40An Important Platitude 40The Creation of Biblical Studies 41The Unexpected Disaster 43The Really Deep Problem 45Retracing Our Steps 46Back to the Crisis Again 51Turning to the Future 52No Longer Queen: The Theological Disciplines and Their Sisters Al Wolters 59Foundational Assumptions in Biblical Scholarship 62Bringing Scripture to Bear on Christian Scholarship 75At the School of Truth: The Ecclesial Character of Theology and Exegesis in the Thought of Benedict XVI Scott Hahn 80Truth, Freedom, and the Academy 81The Critique of Academic Biblical Criticism 84The Ecclesial Locus of Theology and Exegesis 90Benedict's New Synthesis 99The Spiritual Sense(s) Today Glenn Olsen 116Recovering the Spiritual Sense(s) 116Rethinking the 'Apostolic' Exegetical Tradition 118Reconsidering Terminology: 'Allegory' and 'Typology' 124Reclaiming the 'Historical' Sense 128Restoring the Analogical Imagination 132Situationism and the New Testament Psychology of the Heart Robert C. Roberts 139Introduction 139Situationism 140Traits and Situations 143The Psychology of the Heart 145Application of the Psychology of the Heart to Situationism 151Conclusion 158The Bible, Positive Law, and the Legal Academy Robert F. Cochran, Jr. 161The Bible and Positive Law 162Jesus and the Positive Law 170The Legal Academy 178Biblical Imagery and Educational Imagination: Comenius and the Garden of Delight David I. Smith 188Faith, Learning and Metaphor 188The Garden of Delight as a School 191The School as a Garden of Delight 198The Garden of Delight Today 203Coda: Of Math, Grammar and Reconciliation 209Reading Habits, Scripture and the University John Sullivan 216Scripture and Scholarship 218Inhospitable Environments 224Moving Forward in Hope 232The Case for Empirical Assessment of Biblical Literacy in America Byron Johnson 240Introduction 240Are Christians and Non-Christians Different on Key Social Outcome Indicators? 241Is America Becoming a Secular and Less Religious Society? 243Data on Religion in America 246Is Bible Literacy Low and Declining in America? 247Conclusions 252'As if God Were Dead': American Literature and the Question Of Scripture Roger Lundin 253'As if God Were Dead': Emerson and Scriptural Authority 255'The Secret of Our Paternity': Scripture in the School of Melville 262'An Antique Volume': Dickinson and the Limits of Scripture 268A Theological Response 274Biblical Literacy, Academic Freedom, and Christian Liberty David Lyle Jeffrey 284Eclipse of Biblical Narrative 285Egotism and the Common Lot 289The Bible and Academic Freedom 292Afterword - The Bible and the Academy: Some Concluding Thoughts and Possible Future Directions C. Stephen Evans 303University of Gloucestershire 311The British and Foreign Bible Society 312Baylor University 313Redeemer University College 314Scripture Index 315Names Index 317Subject Index 322
