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GCF Book Lists

Faith and Scholarship

At the 2004 Spring Retreat, Paul Jeffries, professor of philosophy at Ripon College, provided us with the following bibliography -

    1. Anderson, Paul M., ed. Professors Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Christian Faculty. Downers Growve: 1998.
    2. Barclay, Oliver. The Intellect and Beyond. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1985.
    3. Benne, Robert. Quality of the Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.
    4. Blamires, Harry. The Christian Mind: How should a Christian Think? Ann Arbor: Servant Books, 1963.
    5. Carpenter, Joel A. and Kenneth W. Shipps, eds. Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Mission of Evangelical Colleges in America. Grand Rapids, MI: Christian University Press, 1987.
    6. Clark, Kelly, ed. Philosophers Who Believe. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993.
    7. Derrick, Christopher. Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education as if Truth Mattered. Peru, IL: Sherwood Sugden, 1977.
    8. Donohue, John W. St. Thomas Aquinas and Education. New York: Random, 1968.
    9. Foster, Richard. Celebration of the Disciplines: The Path to Spiritual Growth. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1988.
    10. Gill, David W. The Opening of the Christian Mind: Taking Every Thought Captive to Christ. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1989.
    11. Gutstafson, James M. "The University as a Community of Moral Discourse." Journal of Religion 53(1973): 397-409.
    12. Hauerwas, Stanley and Charles Pinches. Christians Among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
    13. Holmes, Arthur F. All Truth is God's Truth. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1977.
    14. Holmes, Arthur F. Building the Christian Academy. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001.
    15. Holmes, Arthur F. Contours of a Worldview. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983.
    16. Holmes, Arthur F. The Idea of a Christian College. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1975.
    17. Holmes, Arthur, ed. The Making of a Christian Mind: A Christian World View & the Academic Enterprise. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1985.
    18. Hughes, Richard T. and William B. Adrian, eds. Models for Christian Higher Education: Strategies for Success in the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
    19. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue. 2nd ed. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
    20. MacIntyre, Alasdair. "The Idea of and Educated Public." Education and Values: The Richard Peters Lectures. Grahm Haydon, ed. London: Institute of Education, 1987. pp. 15-36.
    21. MacIntyre, Alasdair. "Reconceiving the University as an Institution and the Lecture as a Genre." Three Rival Views of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
    22. Malik, Charles Habib. A Christian Critique of the University. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1982.
    23. Marsden, George. "The Collapse of American Evangelical Academia." Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God. Eds. Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Press, 1983. 219-264.
    24. Marsden, George. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
    25. Marsden, George. The Soul of the American University. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
    26. Mitchell, Basil. "Reason and Commitment in the Academic Vocation." How to Play Theological Ping-Pong: Essays on Faith and Reason. Basil Mitchell. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990.
    27. Morris, Thomas V. ed. God and the Philosophers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
    28. Murphy, Nancy, Brad J. Kallenbery and Mark Nation (eds.). Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics After MacIntyre. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.
    29. Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
    30. Noll, Mark. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
    31. Palmer, Parker. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Press, 1998.
    32. Palmer, Parker. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Press, 2000.
    33. Palmer, Parker. To Know as We are Known. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983.
    34. Palmer, Parker, ed. Everyone a Teacher. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Press, 2000.
    35. Peterson, Michael L. Philosophy of Education: Issues and Options. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1986.
    36. Plantinga, Alvin. "Advice to Christian Philosophers." Faith and Philosophy 1.3 (1984): 253-271.
    37. Plantinga, Cornelius, Jr. Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
    38. Poe, Harry Lee. Christianity and the Academy. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.
    39. Schwehn, Mark R. Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America. Oxford: New York, 1993.
    40. Simon, Caroline J., Laura Bloxham, Denise Doyle, Mel Hailey, Jane Hokanson Hawks, Kathleen Light, Domininc P. Scibilia, and Ernest Simmons. Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-Related Colleges. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
    41. Sire, James W. Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
    42. Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. Loving God with all your Mind. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1987.
    43. Walsh, Brian J. and J. Richard Middleton. The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1984.
    44. Willard, Dallas. Spirit of the Disciplines. Waco, TX: Word Press, 1988.

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