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Thriving at College

March 29, 2011 by Andy Naselli

When I read this practical book a few weeks ago, I thought, “This is the perfect high school graduation gift. And it would also benefit college students, parents, professors, and pastors.”

Alex Chediak. Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real World! Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2011.

Westminster Books is running a sale that ends on April 5:

  • $7.50 for the first copy (50% off)
  • $9.00 for each subsequent copy (40% off)

About forty people have endorsed it, including Randy Alcorn, David Dockery, Rick Holland, Al Mohler, Chris Morgan, Leland Ryken, Sam Storms, and Bruce Ware.

Chediak, associate professor of engineering and physics at California Baptist University, is the author of With One Voice: Singleness, Dating, and Marriage to the Glory of God and editor of Five Paths to the Love of Your Life. [Read more…] about Thriving at College

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: education

Explaining Anti-intellectualism

January 12, 2011 by Andy Naselli

Bradley G. Green, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010), 179–80:

If what I am arguing is true [pp. 175–78 summarize the book’s argument], then the anti-intellectualism that sometimes marks traditional Christianity needs to be addressed. If the gospel has within it the resources to promote the life of the mind, why do we see anti-intellectualism in portions of the Christian church? I can only offer three brief comments here.

First, it is likely that some persons have been unfairly written off as anti-intellectuals. Christians should be slow to believe what the secular media tells us about this or that Christian group.

Second, much of what passes for intellectual sophistication in contemporary culture is—if we are honest—undeserving of that description. If the acquisition of true knowledge requires—as I have argued in this book—that our hearts and wills be properly ordered, then much of what passes for knowledge is not, in fact, true knowledge.

Third, a pastoral word: C. S. Lewis argued in “Learning in War-Time” that certain Christians are called—by vocation—to apply their minds in a sustained way to the intellectual life. Christians who engage in intensive study should never forget the Christian church. . . . Christians engaging in scholarship should consider the moral obligation of their task. We engage in the life of the mind—at least partially—because we have a moral obligation to help and indeed to protect other Christians as we are able.

Green is not disingenuously generous here. He’s a gracious man, and his brief answer at the end of his book is just that—gracious.

Related: John Piper, “Facing the Challenge of Anti-intellectualism,” in Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010), 113–50.

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: education

Should Pastors Get PhDs?

May 18, 2010 by Andy Naselli

John Piper answers that question in three and a half minutes (transcript | audio | video):

My initial response yesterday after reading and watching Piper’s answer was this:

I think I understand where Piper is coming from here, but it seems to me like he devalues his PhD without sufficient warrant. Did the PhD not help him hone his ability to think and communicate clearly and carefully?

I just read Dane Ortlund’s response to Piper’s answer. It’s excellent. (Dane just completed a PhD in New Testament at Wheaton under Doug Moo.)

Update: Just for the record, I certainly don’t think that all pastors should get PhDs. (But that’s not the point of this post. I am questioning whether we should devalue them so much.)

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: education, John Piper

Why Are There So Many New Bible Colleges and Seminaries?

August 31, 2009 by Andy Naselli

Jon Pratt answers this question in two parts:

  1. Another Bible College?
  2. Another Seminary?
Another Bible College?

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: education

America’s Best Colleges 2009

August 11, 2009 by Andy Naselli

That’s the title of a recent article on Forbes.com that ranks 600 schools. (Cf. the ranking methodology.)

Some highlights (including #279):

  • 1. United States Military Academy
  • 5. Harvard University
  • 50. University of Notre Dame
  • 103. Wheaton College
  • 104. Duke University
  • 170. Furman University
  • 258. Trinity International University
  • 278. Union University
  • 279. Bob Jones University
  • 284. Cedarville University
  • 306. The Master’s College and Seminary
  • 455. Calvin College
  • 483. Baylor University
  • 564. Liberty University

HT: A. J. Gibson

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