Archive for the 'Conceiving the Christian College' Category
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I’m sad to say that this will probably be my last blog on Duane Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”. It has been a source of joy and encouragement for me and, I know, all of its readers.
Chapter 12 is called “Our Place in the Academy: CHALLENGE: To [...]
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Chapter 11 of Duane Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”, is an elaboration of his argument for why colleges like Wheaton should resist any kind of change. The main reason is that if they change, then they will be different from the way they are now. “Thus it [...]
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When our University gave each its faculty a copy of Duane Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”, we were asked to focus on Chapters 4 and 10 because those would be the primary chapters discussed at our faculty retreat. I have already summarized the first six chapters in [...]
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“A Balanced Epistemology: Challenge: To Preserve the Idea of Truth”
I love the title of Chapter 6 of Litfin’s book, “Conceiving the Christian College”. Balanced is the best word to describe Duane Litfin’s epistemology.
“It seems to me,” he writes on p. 110, “that we Christians have our work cut [...]
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This is the forth part in a series of blogs I’ll be writing about Litfin’s excellent book “Conceiving the Christian College”. You really should read part one in which I explain who Litfin means by Jesus Christ or some of this won’t make sense.
In Chapter 5, Duane Litfin [...]
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In honor of Duane Litfin’s book being a finalist for the 2007 Lilly Fellows Program Book Award, I continue my review of the book by examining Chapter 4: “A Centered Education: CHALLENGE: to keep the center at the center”.
Recall that the center of a “Christ-centered education” is the post-resurrection [...]
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This is the second part in a series of blogs I’ll be writing about Litfin’s excellent book “Conceiving the Christian College”. You really should read part one or some of this won’t make sense.
Our University bought a copy of this book for every faculty member last Spring and [...]
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I want everyone to read Duane Litfin’s great book “Conceiving the Christian College”. I’m so excited about this book, I just have to share. But I warn you, there are spoilers below!
Our University bought a copy of this book for every faculty member last Spring and it was the book that we discussed [...]
