Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation

Christian scholars and teachers everywhere are exploring ever more fully the relationship between Christian faith and the various academic disciplines. Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation makes a singular contribution to this ongoing endevor. Leading coices in the Christian academy here provide a solid theological foundation for understanding the aims and practice of faith-and-learning integration, especially within church-related institution, and also poinedly discuss some major challenges and opportunities facing Christian higher education in the twenty-first century.

Douglas Henry (1971-) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he grew up in and around Claremore in Rogers County. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Currently, he serves at Baylor University in Waco, Texas as Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean in the Honors College. He spent six years as Master of Brooks Residential College at Baylor University.

Henry's scholarship has addressed such varied writers as Plato, Boethius, Walker Percy, and John Paul II and diverse topics including divine hiddenness, doubt, freedom, and love. He also has great interest in church-related higher education, and he has co-edited three books on the subject: Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation (Eerdmans, 2003), Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community (Baker Academic, 2005), and The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2007).

Bob R. Agee - was executive director of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools.