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Christianity and the disciplines : the transformation of the university / edited by Oliver D. Crisp, Gavin D'Costa, Mervyn Davies, and Peter Hampson; foreword by Most Revd and Rt Hon. Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury).

Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edinburgh, United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, c2012Description: xiii, 286 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780567040459
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV 4020  .C47 2012
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Summary: This volume will show how various intellectual disciplines (most found within the modern university) can learn from theology and philosophy in primarily methodological and substantitive terms. It will explore the possible ways in which current presuppositions and practices of the displine might be challenged. It will also indicate the possibilities of both a "Christian Culture" in relation to that discipline or the way in which that discipline might look within a real or theoretical Christian university.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1 Newman's Challenge to the Contemporary University /​ Mervyn Davies --
pt. 1 NATURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES --
ch. 2 Mathematics: Breaking the Code of Creation /​ Michael Heller --
ch. 3 Christianity and Physics /​ John Polkinghorne --
ch. 4 Biology in a Christian University /​ Alister E. McGrath --
ch. 5 Theology and Environmental Sciences /​ Celia Deane-Drummond --
ch. 6 Christianity and the Transformation of Medicine /​ Andrew Sloane --
pt. 2 HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES --
ch. 7 Theology and Sociology /​ James Sweeney --
ch. 8 Theology and Psychology /​ Peter Hampson --
ch. 9 Relational Spirituality, Virtue and Psychotherapy /​ Steven J. Sandage --
ch. 10 Theology and Legal Education /​ Julian Rivers --
ch. 11 Politics and International Relations /​ Nicholas Rengger --
ch. 12 Orthodoxy and Heresy in Departments of Economics /​ William T. Cavanaugh --
pt. 3 HUMANITIES --
Contents note continued: ch. 13 Theology and Literature: Reflections on Dante and Shakespeare /​ Vittorio Montemaggi --
ch. 14 English Literature in the University /​ Lucy Beckett --
ch. 15 Philosophy, Theology and Historical Knowledge /​ Fernando Cervantes --
ch. 16 Theology and Classics /​ Richard Finn --
ch. 17 Liturgy, Music and Theology in the English Choral Tradition /​ John Harper.

This volume will show how various intellectual disciplines (most found within the modern university) can learn from theology and philosophy in primarily methodological and substantitive terms. It will explore the possible ways in which current presuppositions and practices of the displine might be challenged. It will also indicate the possibilities of both a "Christian Culture" in relation to that discipline or the way in which that discipline might look within a real or theoretical Christian university.

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