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Eternal progress: how to find fresh ideas

“Of making many books there is no end…” Ecclesiastes 12:12 There is a point of view from which it looks implausible that research in any field could continue indefinitely, century after century, endlessly discovering new things about reality.  Part of the classic fin de siècle phenomenon was the suggestion that there might not be much Read more…

By Richard Gunton, 4 yearsMay 7, 2018 ago
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Seeking the good of the seminar: how to ask questions well

As part of our ongoing series on academic skills, today’s post is about the skill of asking questions well in an academic seminar (or similar setting). For many postgraduate students and researchers, especially in the humanities and social sciences, seminars focused on a particular interest area are the main way we Read more…

By Alicia Smith, 4 yearsFebruary 2, 2018 ago
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Critical engagement and academic citizenship

For the next in our series of posts on skills for Christian academics, I wanted to revisit one aspect of last week’s excellent post by Will Allchorn on ‘engaging in debate and controversy’. Will presented Dr Andrew Basden’s LACE framework for Christians engaging in academic debates – Listen, Affirm, Critique, Enrich. Read more…

By Mark Hutchinson, 5 yearsNovember 13, 2017 ago
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How to engage in debate and controversy

Will Allchorn leads the Leeds Postgraduate Christian Fellowship and recently completed his PhD in political science at the University of Leeds, where he now has teaching responsibilities. “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the Read more…

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 5 yearsNovember 6, 2017 ago
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Listening when others won’t

Mark Surey writes on the importance of listening: I have seldom met a scholar who is not fascinated by and excited about his or her field of study. That level of interest, combined with the God-given capacity to contribute, to a large extent forms the basis for a call to scholarship. It really helps Read more…

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 5 yearsOctober 17, 2017 ago
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Pride and peer review: taking criticism as an academic skill

We’re aiming to write about various academic skills on FiSch over the next few months. Aside from the narrow, subject-specific skills we all acquire in our fields – from paleography to coding to titration – there are many more general skills academics need to thrive in our work, and through which Christians have Read more…

By Alicia Smith, 5 yearsOctober 9, 2017 ago
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Listening to God with studious imagination

The second part of Bruno Medeiros’ series on Listening as a spiritual scholarly discipline: He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: Listen! … Mark 4:2 Give ear and hear my voice; Listen and hear my words. Isaiah 28:23 In an earlier post, I evoked John Stott’s theological concept Read more…

By Faith-in-Scholarship, 5 yearsAugust 18, 2017 ago
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    Thanks for this glimpse into literary circles, Alicia, and the provocation to reflect on conscious and subconscious ways in which…

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    Good story, but short! We all need to to find that one golden recipe! However, with the recipe comes the…

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    A good example of how to preach through our actions. Great stuff as always, Mark!

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    Watching the Netflix doco on Jimmy Savile I was shocked to hear his views on freedom: "- Interviewer: what would…

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    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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