Religion in the University
ISBN-13:
9780300243703
ISBN-10:
0300243707
Author:
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
192 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780300243703
ISBN-10:
0300243707
Author:
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Format:
Hardcover
192 pages
Summary
Religion in the University (ISBN-13: 9780300243703 and ISBN-10: 0300243707), written by authors
Nicholas Wolterstorff, was published by Yale University Press in 2019.
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From one of the world’s leading philosophers, this is a powerful defense of religion’s role within the modern university
What is religion’s place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what that home should be like.
He documents the remarkable changes have occurred within the academy over the past five decades with regard to how knowledge is understood. During the same period, profound philosophical advancements have also been made in our understanding of religious belief. These shifting ideals, taken together, have created an environment that is more pluralistic than secular. Tapping into larger debates on freedom of expression and intellectual diversity, Wolterstorff believes a scholarly ethic should guard us against becoming, in Weber’s words, “specialists without spirit and sensualists without heart.”
What is religion’s place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what that home should be like.
He documents the remarkable changes have occurred within the academy over the past five decades with regard to how knowledge is understood. During the same period, profound philosophical advancements have also been made in our understanding of religious belief. These shifting ideals, taken together, have created an environment that is more pluralistic than secular. Tapping into larger debates on freedom of expression and intellectual diversity, Wolterstorff believes a scholarly ethic should guard us against becoming, in Weber’s words, “specialists without spirit and sensualists without heart.”
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