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Christianity and the Soul of the University:
Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual CommunitySponsored By
The Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning And
The Council of Christian Scholarly SocietiesThursday, March 25-Saturday, March 27, 2004
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Plenary SpeakersJean Bethke-Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics
University of Chicago Divinity SchoolJoel Carpenter
Professor of History and Provost
Calvin CollegeRichard Hays
Professor of New Testament
Duke Divinity SchoolDavid Lyle Jeffrey
Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities and Provost
Baylor UniversityJohn Polkinghorne
President Emeritus of Queen's College and Professor of Mathematical Physics
Cambridge University
Program Description"Christianity and the Soul of the University" will explore the role that reflective Christian faith can play in unifying the intellectual life of the university. As John Henry Newman expressed well in The Idea of a University, theological reflection is not peripheral to the academic enterprise, but constitutes a fundamental feature of education in its fullest sense, whatever one's disciplinary affiliation. We hope to underscore in this conference the enduring place that Christian faith should hold as scholars consider how they are called to intellectual labor and how they regard their disciplines. Specifically, in the midst of a larger academic culture prone to fragmentation, we want to remind Christian scholars of the vision of the faith as a comprehensive, unsurpassable, and central account of human life and the world in relation to God. This vision calls us to an intellectual and spiritual community that aims at comprehending and appropriating the all-encompassing Christian vision of life, and doing so not incidentally, but as an essential and unifying aspect of our academic disciplines.
We are pleased to announce that the Baker Book House Company is the publishing sponsor of this conference. Please visit them on the Web at http://www.bakerbooks.com.
Christianity and the Soul of the University
Institute for Faith and Learning
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97270
Waco, TX 76798-7270
(254) 710-4805
IFL@baylor.edu
