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Richard Gunton

Richard is the Director of Faith-in-Scholarship at Thinking Faith Network. His current passions include Reformational philosophy, Portchester (where he lives), ordination (the statistical sort), gardening for wildlife... and two beautiful women (one aged 4).
Faith-in-Scholarship

Ecology: filling and subduing; listening and serving

What do you think of when you hear the word “ecology”? The discipline of ecology may be unique among the sciences in that its name has become strongly associated with a political agenda [1]. Indeed, “ecological” has connotations of “sustainable” and “environmentally-friendly”. What we call “green” translates in many languages Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsSeptember 26, 2014 ago
Creation - Fall - Redemption
Faith-in-Scholarship

A Christian worldview (3) redemption

The third key element of the biblical worldview is redemption.  That means God buying back what was lost.  And if we take the biblical accounts of sin seriously, it’s clear that the whole created order was corrupted by the Fall.  So, building on an understanding of Creation and Fall, we see that Redemption is Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsAugust 15, 2014 ago
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Football in the Kingdom of God

Mark is away this week, so here’s something you may have missed last month. As anticipation mounted for the World Cup final, a feature about football and faith went out on 6th July on 16 local radio stations around the country: from Yorkshire Coast Radio to Cornwall’s Pirate FM. Mark was a Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsAugust 12, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Serving Christ in Academia

I heard a talk about “Being a Christian in Academia” recently and wanted to make a response.  I had a list of points at which I would have said something different from what the speaker said, and there were probably enough for a 30-min talk. But as I reflected, there Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsJuly 4, 2014 ago
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First aid for postgrads

This week, I’m taking a look at another initiative concerned with Christian scholarship. Grad Resources has a unique model for engaging with the university.  Based in the USA, it has a telephone helpline dedicated to PhD students in moments of crisis, or who feel a need for anonymous support.  The National Grad Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsMay 23, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

A special Book on the academic’s shelf?

At one of our postgrads’ discussions, a friend doing a PhD in literature was sharing how difficult it is to attribute special authority to the Bible in the English faculty, where a first principal is that all texts are treated equally.  Must we just make a special exception for this book, Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsMay 9, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Studying at Easter?

For many of us, Easter has strong associations with studying. The Easter holiday is the one you won’t really get if you’re coming up to big exams, because Easter term is exam term. Easter also comes when preparations for end-of-year performances and summer sporting events step up a gear. In Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsApril 18, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Faithful scholarship in action

For many people, “academia”, “PhD” and “scholarship” suggest intellectual pursuits, far removed from real life. If you want to change the world, don’t go and hide in an ivory tower! And some Christians would readily take Paul’s warnings against “the wisdom of this world” (e.g. 1 Corinthians 1:19-31) to be Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsApril 4, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

The outrageous idea of Christian scholarship

This is the title of a book by George Marsden – and it’s also the title that David Hanson took for his talk at the recent FiSch leaders’ conference.  In this and the next few posts, we’ll share some of the things we heard at this conference, which took place Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsFebruary 14, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Welcome to Faith-in-Scholarship!

This blog is a space where a team of us – the FiSch Fellows and some friends – will be exploring how Christian faith can affect academic work and life.  And you, dear reader, are invited to join in! We’ll probably have more questions than answers, because Christian faith is Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 8 yearsFebruary 6, 2014 ago

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  1. Bruce Wearne on Jimmy Savile’s WorldviewMay 19, 2022

    Well, Mark, thanks. Yes edgy story this. You'd think that hearing it, the victims of such criminal deeds and such…

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    Super article, Mark.

  3. Mark Roques on Faith, Theology, and Philosophy – For All!May 13, 2022

    Thanks Mike for this excellent post. You cover a lot of ground clearly and engagingly. It is so helpful to…

  4. Evan on Jimmy Savile’s WorldviewMay 12, 2022

    A brilliant perspective on syncretism! I wouldn't have thought about Savile's case in that way. Thanks, Mark!

  5. Hugh Grear on Jimmy Savile’s WorldviewMay 12, 2022

    Great article. Wonder where Savile is now, and whether he can access The Thinking Faith Network. He’s possibly left it…

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