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Sideline or Worldview: Scholarship as vocation

I’m trying to be a serious academic, but sometimes it feels that considering how my faith impacts my discipline is merely an interesting sideline to my work. It’s a subject to be confined to my Christian postgrad group and occasional books read on the sly, rather than a unifying principle Read more…

By Richard Dunning, 8 yearsOctober 3, 2014 ago
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
Faith-in-Scholarship

Why disciplines are better together

It has been said that a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less … until he knows everything about nothing! When working towards a PhD it is very tempting to try to become that sort of a specialist. Your aim is to become the world’s Read more…

By Anthony Smith, 8 yearsSeptember 19, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

A Christian worldview (4) Your kingdom come… in the university

A few weeks ago, we saw that redemption is the way in which God, in the person of Jesus, stepped into his creation to gain the victory over the punishment for and consequences of the fall. However, at present we still live in the ‘in-between’, knowing that we are forgiven now, but that the full Read more…

By Eline van Asperen, 8 yearsSeptember 12, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Christ as Lord: Philosophy

Having “Christ as Lord over x” has been extensively discussed in recent posts. We have seen that explaining what this means within whatever sphere of life or study we find ourselves in can be difficult but also rewarding. Philosophy is no exception.  Christian Philosophy[1] began to make a comeback some thirty Read more…

By Thom Atkinson, 8 yearsSeptember 5, 2014 ago
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I’m an intellectual, shackled by admin

As Abraham Kuyper never said: “All of life is redeemed, apart from the mundane stuff”. When Kuyper was writing the Stone lectures was he thinking about completing a bi-annual PhD progress report, doing the online fire training course again (could a fire occur in virtual space?), checking references, filing ethical Read more…

By Richard Dunning, 8 yearsAugust 22, 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
Faith-in-Scholarship

Astronomy through a Christian telescope

One of the motivations for Faith in Scholarship is the conviction that Christian faith makes a difference to all areas of life. It’s not just the ‘religious’ areas of our lives that are affected, but, in the famous words of Abraham Kuyper, ‘There is not a square inch in the whole domain Read more…

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 8 yearsAugust 8, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

Abstract mushrooms and reduced cows

When you look at a mushroom, what do you see? You might be attracted by its colourful hood, or by its smell. Or you may think of mushrooms in garlic butter. When I look at a mushroom, I see the fruit body of a basidiomycete. This is because mushrooms are Read more…

By Eline van Asperen, 8 yearsAugust 1, 2014 ago
Faith-in-Scholarship

A Christian worldview (2) fall

The Bible presents a narrative of Creation, Fall and Redemption.  A story of what our world is like and what God is doing in and through it. We might expect, then, that academia, as an enterprise located in God’s creation, fits into this narrative. In Anthony’s recent post we saw that Christian Read more…

By Thom Atkinson, 8 yearsJuly 25, 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…

  2. Sareen Galbraith on Jimmy Savile’s WorldviewMay 14, 2022

    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!

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    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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