Christianity and intellectual inquiry : thinking as pilgrimage /
"Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry explores the relationship between faith and learning in Christian history and in the thinking processes of contemporary Americans. The first half of the book describes the two-thousand-year history of diverse Christian reflections on faith and learning in...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Intellectual Inquiry in Christian History
- 1 Faith and Learning in the Roman and Persian Empires
- Introduction
- Christianity and Ancient Learning
- Christian Creeds
- Faith, Learning, and Coercion in Western Christendom
- Faith and Learning in the Persian Church of the East
- 2 Faith and Learning in Four Christian Communities
- Introduction
- Faith and Learning in Orthodox Christianity
- Faith and Learning in Roman Catholicism
- Faith and Learning in Protestantism
- Faith and Learning in Pentecostalism
- PART II America's Shifting Intellectual Terrain
- 3 Epistemological Universalism
- Introduction
- Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry at the Turn of the Century
- Catholic and Protestant Anti-Modernism: The Christian Battle for Truth
- Christian Modernists: Rethinking the Faith
- Searching for a Middle Ground
- 4 Cognitive Pluralism
- Introduction
- The Intellectual Environment of the Later Twentieth Century
- Mainline Protestantism's Embrace of Pluralism
- The Double Bind of Evangelical Scholarship
- Catholicism's Intellectual Balancing Act
- 5 An Age of Identity
- Introduction
- Identity: The Intellectual Environment of the Twenty-First Century
- Identity-Constrained versus Identity-Informed Thinking
- Christian Fortress Thinking
- The Emergence of Christian Pilgrimage Thinking
- PART III Intellectual Pilgrimage in an Age of Identity
- 6 Intellectual Pilgrimage
- Introduction
- The Concept of Intellectual Pilgrimage
- The Intertwining of Faith and Learning
- Pilgrimage Thinking and American Higher Education
- Pathways of Intellectual Inquiry
- Four Pathways of Pilgrimage Thinking
- 7 The Pathway of Attentiveness
- Rachel Carson: Exemplar of Attentiveness Thinking
- Attentiveness in Practice
- Attentiveness in the Bible and Christian History
- Attentiveness in American Higher Education
- 8 The Pathway of Contemplation
- Thomas Merton: Exemplar of Contemplative Thinking
- Contemplative Thinking in Practice
- Contemplative Thinking in the Bible and Christian History
- Contemplative Thinking in American Higher Education
- 9 The Pathway of Proclamation
- James Cone: Exemplar of Proclamation Thinking
- Proclamation Thinking in Practice
- Proclamation Thinking in the Bible and Christian History
- Proclamation Thinking in American Higher Education
- 10 The Pathway of Compassion
- Paul Farmer: Exemplar of Compassion Thinking
- Compassion Thinking in Practice
- Compassion Thinking in The Bible and Christian History
- Compassion Thinking in American Higher Education
- Conclusion: Christianity, Intellectual Inquiry, and the Marketplace of Ideas
- Index